Hi Y'all, sometime lurker, first time poster.
I got an HTC One V (CDMA, Virgin Mobile) today and given the relative ease of rooting my old Droid Inc I thought it would be a breeze to do this phone as well, but I did not do enough research and messed it up. Here is what I did as best as I can recall:
I unlocked the bootloader without a problem using Fastboot.
Then I flashed CWM recovery through hasoon2000's all in one tool, but it didn't work. I believe I did not flash the correct CWM (CDMA). I tried reflashing stock recovery, and then CDMA CWM recovery, but I couldn't get past the white HTC with the red warning message.
Because I couldn't get recovery to work, I thought maybe I should flash the kernel. I was using hasoon2000's all in one tool, but I did not realize that it would try to boot into recovery in the middle of flashing the kernel (yeah, I'm a noob and an idiot).
So now it won't load into the standard ROM anymore, it just gets stuck on the HTC White screen with the Red Warning. I can get it to load the bootloader, and I tried flashing the kernel from the all in one tool through fastboot, but it didn't work.
Is there any way I can save my phone or am I out of luck?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Get the stock boot.img and put it in your fast boot folder and go to cmd prompt and type
C:\fastboot
Fast boot flash boot boot.IMG
Make sure your in fastboot
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Thanks XxlemonxX. I did that a few times and it didn't seem to stick.
But! While I was fastloading I went ahead and did the Superboot step found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598964
And the phone restarted! Huzzah! Now I just have to see if I can get a recovery actually working...
OK, so things got a little strange.
The phone booted up just fine, so I tried flashing CWM recovery again. It worked, and restarted into CWM recovery. The power button didn't seem to work for selecting various options for a while, it would just go to the screen with the cog and the top hat, until I held it down for a few seconds, after which the bottom buttons flashed, and at the bottom it said "back button enabled". Then the power button worked for selecting various options. (I'm not sure if this is how CWM recovery is supposed to work for the One V, as I can't find any definitive answers...). Anyways, ran a backup through recovery, but afterwards the phone wouldn't reboot again.
Since it worked before I ran the Superboot app through windows and bam, starts up again. Did a factory reset just to see if that would clear the rebooting problem, but it didn't. It did change, however. Now it goes to the white HTC screen with the red warning for a second, goes back to black, then goes to a really dark black with just the red warning barely visible for about 7~ seconds, then it powers down. The only way I can get a reboot into the ROM is to redo the Superboot app...
I'm a little nervous at this point. I tried flashing an MIUI rom through the CWM app but there was an error (I didn't write it down, sorry), and I can't find a reliable link to the stock RUU VM PrimoC Rom (jmz's links are down as far as I can tell). I just want a rom that will reboot without freezing, haha. Thanks again for any help.
tl;dr Phone only boots when Superboot app is flashed, try a different rom?
jimmymcsnakes said:
OK, so things got a little strange.
The phone booted up just fine, so I tried flashing CWM recovery again. It worked, and restarted into CWM recovery. The power button didn't seem to work for selecting various options for a while, it would just go to the screen with the cog and the top hat, until I held it down for a few seconds, after which the bottom buttons flashed, and at the bottom it said "back button enabled". Then the power button worked for selecting various options. (I'm not sure if this is how CWM recovery is supposed to work for the One V, as I can't find any definitive answers...). Anyways, ran a backup through recovery, but afterwards the phone wouldn't reboot again.
Since it worked before I ran the Superboot app through windows and bam, starts up again. Did a factory reset just to see if that would clear the rebooting problem, but it didn't. It did change, however. Now it goes to the white HTC screen with the red warning for a second, goes back to black, then goes to a really dark black with just the red warning barely visible for about 7~ seconds, then it powers down. The only way I can get a reboot into the ROM is to redo the Superboot app...
I'm a little nervous at this point. I tried flashing an MIUI rom through the CWM app but there was an error (I didn't write it down, sorry), and I can't find a reliable link to the stock RUU VM PrimoC Rom (jmz's links are down as far as I can tell). I just want a rom that will reboot without freezing, haha. Thanks again for any help.
tl;dr Phone only boots when Superboot app is flashed, try a different rom?
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That is an old cwm. thats how it operates. Once your booted into the system you can install rom manager from play store and then you can update cwm so you wont have to enable the power button for use. But anyway seems you cant boot into a stable system right now. So If you are willing to follow theses instructions you can get back to factory conditions.
1. get the fastboot package if you dont have it. http://www.mediafire.com/?4dx982z93w8z7wk and put those files in a folder in the C drive.
2. Get the ruu from here its the top one if you are virgin mobile US. http://www.filefactory.com/f/0eafb9c43276c308/ look for RUU_PRIMO_C_ICS_40A_Sprint_WWE_VM_1.08.652.6_Radio_1.00.00.0521_2_NV_VM_3.46_0503_PRL61008_release_262414_signed.exe
3. This is how your going to get the stock recovery and stock kernel. run the ruu but dont do anything with it just yet. After the ruu is opened and is at the welcome screen just click and drag the window down out of the way and open ANY folder and type %temp% in the address bar of that folder and press enter. You will see a bunch of folders with titles like this "{B2B09672-51AB-4EF6-BDDF-50CB9719052B}" This is just an example. While in that temp folder just do a search for rom.zip and when you find it you can copy that file to your desktop and then just click cancel in the ruu welcome screen for now.
4. Open the rom.zip file with 7zip. You must use 7zip. The built in windows zip program wont work. Once its opened with 7zip, extract these two files 'recovery_signed.img' and 'boot_signed.img'. This is your stock recovery and stock kernel. Extract those to the fastboot folder.
5. You must somehow get your device into the bootloader again. I had the same symptoms as you did with the dark screen and dim red text. I just kept playing with the volume down during boot and eventualy got there. DO NOT USE VOLUME UP!!
6. Once your in the bootloader choose fastboot and plug your device in and it should now say fastboot usb at the top of the bootloader screen. Now run theses commands.
7. Commands to run.
fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
8. Now while in bootloader fastboot usb still just run the ruu and follow all instructions. Make sure you have atleast 30% battery while performing this. And if all goes well you will be back to square one.
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I have seached similar posts but everything suggested thats works for everyone else isn't working for me.
So, I went and rooted my phone, but it wouldn't let me flash any ROM, so I went and done the good old S-Off, and it let me flash a ROM thanks to the good old updated clockworkmod. However, there was a fault, i couldn't hear anyone when I called out.
So, I then desided to try another ROM, to see if it would fix it. But it wouldn't install any, it wouldn't even reinstall the current one. Then I pressed format \boot (and the rest of the format options on the clockwork mod) (not sure why), and it wouldn't allow me to boot into anything but ClockworkMod which wouldn't let me flash.
So, having a generic HTC Desire, I thought to use an RUU to restore it (no goldcard), so I plugged it in, and ran the RUU and it DID recognise the phone, then part way through a hazard sign showed up on the right hand side of the loading bar on the phone, and at the end the application RUU on my pc showed an error [110] FIle Open Error and now my phone doesn't move past and HTC logo with a hazard sign in each corner.
Cant boot into recovery or fastboot or anything....
HELP!!
UPDATE
Used PC - Fastboot, but its stuck at the white screen with the HTC logo
I hope you have found a solution
(You had wipe all cashs, calvin before you flashed the new roms?)
cstarrs said:
Used PC - Fastboot, but its stuck at the white screen with the HTC logo
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If you still can get to fastboot, then there my be a possibility to recover it. RRU will run from the fastboot screen. Insert your goldcard (if you have one) to be sure that it will work.
If you're still S-OFF (you should be if you had an alpharev HBoot), you can flash a recovery through fastboot. You can use fastboot commander to do so (requires java sdk). Boot into fastboot (back button + power), plug phone in via usb, run fastboot commander and flash recovery. Then flash a ROM.
recovery MD5Sum: 835b2f180869b00116d1e5b9a430ed4d
Hi i was trying to install the android revolution HD rom, i was already rooted and had clockwork recovery image. So i like the rom instructions said downloaded super wipe and put it on the SD card. But first i downloaded the boot.img for the 7.0.0 version. The folder was called flash_boot_7.0.0 i tried running the .bat, but it didnt work so i manually flashed the boot.img in the fastboot folder in the flash_boot_7.0.0.zip. It flashed successfully and then i ran the super wipe script as the instructions said it carried out successfully but then when i tried flashing the rom it came back with an error and said installation aborted. So i then thought maybe i should reboot and then flash the rom. I rebooted and the phone goes to the HTC quietly brilliant screen and is stuck.
Iv tried the hold power and volume down method the phone just reboots straight back to the white HTC screen, it doesnt go to fastboot. What can i do to rescue my One X and what did i do wrong :|?!
Thanks
Hmz... It has to go into HBOOT (volume down while powering up).
See if adb is still working even if it stays on the HTC logo.
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I think i had a similar issue but managed to get to hboot after few reboots... if you manage to get to the reboot, then you can fix the issue... i think may be rom you downloaded is a corrupted file so it didnt flash.. so download again mount trough the recovery and push the new download to the sd card and do the flashing...
make sure to keep the vol down button pressed while you forced power down and keep it pressed and then power up the device... best of luck mate!!
when u get to the htc screen, keep holding that power and volume bitton. it should go past
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I had a similar problem. Power and volume down the device booted as normally. Solution for me: the device was still on (fast boot mode). Try to hold power down when device turned on until the softbuttons start to flash a few times. Screen will go blank. Now push and hold volume down button. The device should start to the bootloader.
Good luck!
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1) Turn your One X on.
2) Wait for the HTC logo to appear.
3) Hold the power button and the volume down button, release power button 2 seconds after the screen goes black.
4) If you don't boot into fastboot repeat step 3 until it does, it should boot into fastboot, most times the issues is that the phone won't boot into recovery.
5) Once in fastboot, open up command prompt in your folder with fastboot.exe and execute the command fastboot erase cache.
6) Boot into recovery, flash a rom that should work, in our case don't try flashing the Android Revolution rom, it might have corrupted when downloading or copying.
Hi, I bricked my Phone (I can get access to CWM v6.0.1.9) whilst changing the Build.Prop file (which I know I'm meant to be careful with) I rebooted my phone and after 10 minutes it was still siting on the "Google" screen. I can get into Bootloader and CWM 6.0.1.9 but cant get it to display on my Laptop (win7) as I can't turn on USB debugging..
Any help? I'm stuck right now! It wont show up on ADB or Nexus Toolkit (I found a thread elsewhere with some links but couldnt read them as I wasnt a member)
Fast boot, flash factory image
do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Or reflag custom ROM
I'm getting no response when typing in "Fastboot Devices" when I put "ADB Reboot bootloader" its saying "No device found"
If the device cant be seen Can I still flash?
to use fastboot you need to be in the bootloader, not recovery.
I've tried in the bootloader but nothing ever shows up? I havent seen anything pop-up on the bottom of my start bar.. Hmnn If I could get access to my USB/SDcard I could put a zip file to flash -_-
I'll see if I can get it to show up onn fastboot again
if nothing shows up, that means you dont have the fastboot drivers.
Exactly that's what I thought at first place. Forgive me if you find it way too basic but have you tried re-install fastboot drivers? (or even samsung usb drivers....u can also reflash your Gnex via Odin Mode...after all you've got nothing to lose)
I managed to get it working, It wasn't the drivers (I've been using them recently) It was the latest version of ADB/Fastboot I downloaded the latest version and its now flashing
If you can get into CWM like you say, just flash the ROM again. It should fix whatever changes you made to the build.prop file.
EDIT: Nevermind, I guess you got it working. For future reference, if you ever get to where you messed something up and you can still boot into CWM, a simple reflash of the ROM should fix it. Or always make a backup before you go messing with stuff that might ruin something.
...and as long as u can boot into bootloader, download, recovery mode device is usually nowhere near to brick
Ok so my 3 yo. son likes to play games on my GNex. I have not rooted or made ANY modifications whatsoever. He was in the middle of playing a game when it randomly reboots. He hands it to me on the google screen. It never boots. just sits. I have been from forum to forum. If i hold:
pwr + - volume i get the odin mode download screen. I have tried loading stock images through odin but it always gets to CDMA-Radio the very last step and hangs there forever (15+min.) battery pull.
pwr + + volume I get a black screen with a lock at the bottom. ( i have read that this means i have unlocked the bootloader but I have not, on purpose at least) battery pull
pwr + both volume i get a black screen. It kinda looks like the screen is on but just completely black. no fastboot mode. Battery pull.
the stock images i have found either do not work in odin or have broken links.
i am not sure if usb debugging is on like i said i usually dont mod phones. adb wont recognize. I just want a stock GNex back. Any tips tricks files or suggestions will be greatly appreciated and I have no problem donating to the cause
Also if i plug my phone into my pc and dont touch anything the battery symbol with the lightning bolt comes up. cant get rid of it unless battery pull. HELP!! :crying:
jsgraphicart said:
If you can get into CWM like you say, just flash the ROM again. It should fix whatever changes you made to the build.prop file.
EDIT: Nevermind, I guess you got it working. For future reference, if you ever get to where you messed something up and you can still boot into CWM, a simple reflash of the ROM should fix it. Or always make a backup before you go messing with stuff that might ruin something.
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Good advice...
regal513 said:
Ok so my 3 yo. son likes to play games on my GNex. I have not rooted or made ANY modifications whatsoever. He was in the middle of playing a game when it randomly reboots. He hands it to me on the google screen. It never boots. just sits. I have been from forum to forum. If i hold:
pwr + - volume i get the odin mode download screen. I have tried loading stock images through odin but it always gets to CDMA-Radio the very last step and hangs there forever (15+min.) battery pull.
pwr + + volume I get a black screen with a lock at the bottom. ( i have read that this means i have unlocked the bootloader but I have not, on purpose at least) battery pull
pwr + both volume i get a black screen. It kinda looks like the screen is on but just completely black. no fastboot mode. Battery pull.
the stock images i have found either do not work in odin or have broken links.
i am not sure if usb debugging is on like i said i usually dont mod phones. adb wont recognize. I just want a stock GNex back. Any tips tricks files or suggestions will be greatly appreciated and I have no problem donating to the cause
Also if i plug my phone into my pc and dont touch anything the battery symbol with the lightning bolt comes up. cant get rid of it unless battery pull. HELP!! :crying:
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If you want to flash img files via Odin you must first create tar or tar.md5 packages. Download and install cygwin. Once u opened cygwin navigate to your factory image folder where all your img files are. (it's a good idea to make a copy of your bootloader-xxx-img and radio-xxx.img and to rename them to simple bootloader.img and radio.img) and use the following commands:
Code:
tar -H ustar -c boot.img bootloader.img radio.img recovery.img system.img userdata.img > name-of-odin-flashable.tar
md5sum -t name-of-odin-flashable.tar >> name-of-odin-flashable.tar
mv name-of-odin-flashable.tar name-of-odin-flashable.tar.md5
flash this newly created package under "pda" , and do NOT check re-partition!
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Really hope that I am in the right section.
I have been running the blisspop rom for a little while now. Wanted to give a new rom a shot. Went into recovery and wiped as usual and went to flash and got a "this package supports bootloader....." Realized that the new rom recommenced TWRP or Clockwork. So I went into fastboot and tried flashing both Clockwork and TWRP and after flashing and rebooting it hangs on the boot screen with "entering recovery" at the top.
Suggestions? Help?
harrishabitat said:
Really hope that I am in the right section.
I have been running the blisspop rom for a little while now. Wanted to give a new rom a shot. Went into recovery and wiped as usual and went to flash and got a "this package supports bootloader....." Realized that the new rom recommenced TWRP or Clockwork. So I went into fastboot and tried flashing both Clockwork and TWRP and after flashing and rebooting it hangs on the boot screen with "entering recovery" at the top.
Suggestions? Help?
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Are you flashing the right recovery that's made specifically for your device?
djpabz23 said:
Are you flashing the right recovery that's made specifically for your device?
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Yes I am, I have a At&t Htc one M8 and for clockwork I flashed 6.0.4.3 and twrp is the correct one via their selection menu
harrishabitat said:
Yes I am, I have a At&t Htc one M8 and for clockwork I flashed 6.0.4.3 and twrp is the correct one via their selection menu
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Here download this one: Click Here
Boot your phone into bootloader,
Choose Fastboot and hook it up to the computer
Wait until it says Fastboot-USB
Open CMD in the window where you downloaded the file and copy this without the quotation marks: "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.3.0-m8.img"
Wait until it finishes, then just try going back into recovery
djpabz23 said:
Here download this one: Click Here
Boot your phone into bootloader,
Choose Fastboot and hook it up to the computer
Wait until it says Fastboot-USB
Open CMD in the window where you downloaded the file and copy this without the quotation marks: "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.3.0-m8.img"
Wait until it finishes, then just try going back into recovery
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Yep same thing...just hangs on the white HTC boot screen with Entering Recovery at the top. The weird thing is even though it hangs there I still get a message on my computer that says the phone is connected through USB
harrishabitat said:
Yep same thing...just hangs on the white HTC boot screen with Entering Recovery at the top. The weird thing is even though it hangs there I still get a message on my computer that says the phone is connected through USB
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hmm.. Odd. Have you ever tried RUU back to stock and retrying all over again?
harrishabitat said:
Yep same thing...just hangs on the white HTC boot screen with Entering Recovery at the top. The weird thing is even though it hangs there I still get a message on my computer that says the phone is connected through USB
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Try this:
fastboot erase cache
Then flash again twrp recovery
Fastboot flash recovery twrp_recovery_name.img
Send with my M8 from Tuttoandroid
That didn't work either. Has anyone else tried to go from the philz recovery back to the other ones and had any issues?
Still trying to figure this out...maybe someone else has a suggestion. I can't RUU since I don't have S-Off, but there should't be an issue flashing a new recovery, I've never had this issue before.
harrishabitat said:
Still trying to figure this out...maybe someone else has a suggestion. I can't RUU since I don't have S-Off, but there should't be an issue flashing a new recovery, I've never had this issue before.
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Okay. Let's start over from the beginning.
Go here and download this. on your PC.
rename it to "recovery.img" (no quotes) and put it into your fastboot folder on your PC. (either fastboot or platform-tools depending on the ADB version you have)
Hook up to ADB/fastboot and enter the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
The img you are trying to flash has to be in your fastboot folder.
Also, make sure you have the proper drivers installed. You can confirm this by going to Device Manager on you PC (enter device manager into the search box in your start menu. If you see a yellow exclamation point over "My HTC" or "Android" you don't have the proper drivers).
If you get the yellow "!", and don't have the drivers, then you can get them by clicking this link.
Also, make sure that HTC Sync Manager is uninstalled from your computer. It does not play nice with ADB.
xunholyx said:
Okay. Let's start over from the beginning.
Go here and download this. on your PC.
rename it to "recovery.img" (no quotes) and put it into your fastboot folder on your PC. (either fastboot or platform-tools depending on the ADB version you have)
Hook up to ADB/fastboot and enter the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img.
The img you are trying to flash has to be in your fastboot folder.
Also, make sure you have the proper drivers installed. You can confirm this by going to Device Manager on you PC (enter device manager into the search box in your start menu. If you see a yellow exclamation point over "My HTC" or "Android" you don't have the proper drivers).
If you get the yellow "!", and don't have the drivers, then you can get them by clicking this link.
Also, make sure that HTC Sync Manager is uninstalled from your computer. It does not play nice with ADB.
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I appreciate the detailed instructions, and I went through and did it exactly like you suggested and I ended up with the same issue. I am able to flash the recovery, the issue is afterwards when I reboot the bootloader then try to go into the recovery it freezes on the htc logo screen with "entering recovery" at the top of the screen. I have been able to flash roms and everything with no issue, just for some reason I can't switch recoveries.
harrishabitat said:
I appreciate the detailed instructions, and I went through and did it exactly like you suggested and I ended up with the same issue. I am able to flash the recovery, the issue is afterwards when I reboot the bootloader then try to go into the recovery it freezes on the htc logo screen with "entering recovery" at the top of the screen. I have been able to flash roms and everything with no issue, just for some reason I can't switch recoveries.
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Having the same issue, a few things a I see on Hboot:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ****
S-ON
Is that ok?
Thanks in advance
So I already had a rooted (and I'm pretty sure unlocked bootlader) version of the stock Asus and wanted to put CM13 nightly on there. Everything was going smooth until I got to the stage where I have to load into TWRP and I got the error screen with the little dead alien and the red symbol.
Now I can't enter normal boot, but entering recovery mode seems to work. I tried the option to side load a package from ADB on that screen but nothing worked (.zip files extracted, but I got an error on the phone).
As you can tell, I'm really new to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried looking around, but it seems the more common issue is people not being able to enter recovery mode or something similar.
Thanks
Looks like your doing it wrong. Being rooted does not necessarily mean that your bootloader is unlocked.
By the looks of it your in recovery mode with the dead robot with the "error" message. That is normal. To reboot back into system you either have to press (I don't remember) power button and volume up or down button. Then you should see some options with reboot to system. Or if that does not work you can hold the power button till it turns off.
Then you get back into Android, download the official bootloader unlock tool from ASUS and install it on your device. NOTE: If you updated to MM then this will not work and this will void your warranty.
Run the tool and press unlock and it should reboot into fastboot where it should begin the unlocking process. I believe it should automatically reboot and you should see that the Asus logo is now black instead of white. If not, repeat the process.
You can now proceed to flash twrp recovery. Boot into fastboot/bootloader mode either with "adb reboot bootloader" or hold a specific set of buttons while off to go directly into fastboot.
On the computer, connect your device and type in "fastboot flash recovery (path to twrp IMG without brackets)"
When done you should be able to reboot into twrp recovery where you can flash the cm13 zip.
Hope this helped.