Hi..
I have been flashing roms for a few years now on a previous HTC Desire and now on my HTC One X.
All was well until today.
I decided to go for a JellyBean custom rom and flashed the .boot img in the wrong order. Due to my hboot version (1.28) I was ment to flash the boot.img first (but it never said this in the installation instructions, anyway...)
Basically, I got stuck in a boot loop and not able to get into recovery at all. I can only get into hboot / fastboot.
I have tried installing my stock RUU and relocking bootloader to get completely back to stock but keep getting an error due to the 1.28 hboot not being compatible with it.
I have working roms on my phone I can flash but I just cant get into CWM whatsoever, when I click on Recovery it just reboots itself. Can't install stock RUU.
What are my other options? Can I flash a rom some other way? I'm basically stuck in hboot/fastboot...
tldr;
stuck in hboot, can't get into recovery, stock RUU won't flash due to hboot version.
My phone was fully charged when I started 20 minutes ago.
Please help.
Thank you...:good:
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Wow. Just RE-unlocked my bootloader and it rebooted itself straight into the custom rom I was trying to install. Strange!? All is well now.
Anyway, thanks for listening.
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God damn it, I think I messed up here. I got a replacement G2 since mine has gone bananas! So I got Rooted with S-Off but I think I flashed the DesireZ PC10IMG.zip since I wanted to install doubleshot roms and so on. However after I flashed it my phone gets stuck at the HTC screen now?
When I try to boot into Recovery it's still under Recovery v3.0.2.4 so I can't even restore my phone to a previous back up since these back ups were created with the latest Recovery version.
I went ahead and downloaded the stock G2 Rom from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788489
However, when I renamed it to PC10IMG and put it on the the root of the SD-Card Bootloader will not flash the .zip and I get some sort parsing message and I get right back to the Bootloader screen.
I also can't follow the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999796 - to restore the stock H-Boot since I can't even boot the damn thing!
HELP!
Flash a new rom in recovery, or if you have eng hboot, flash latest recovery, restore nandroid.
-Nipqer
What does it say when you go into the bootloader? There should be a hboot version towards the top of the screen?
Also, have you tried flashing a rom using recovery? It sounds like it is working- just get a normal rom, nothing that is named PC10IMG.zip. Maybe try one of the CM stable releases.
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Flash a new rom in recovery, or if you have eng hboot, flash latest recovery, restore nandroid.
-Nipqer
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Now see....... Why didn't I think of that?..... FAIL!
Well I tried custom firmware after successfully unlocking my HTC One X. It says Unlocked but S-ON so not sure whats going on there? But since S-On I cannot change the CID as get the error (status read failed (too many links)) MY CID is H3G_001 and since I rooted my phone refuses to let me upgrade to OTA Jellybean which is frustrating forcing custom firmware.
Without updating CID I got stuck in a bootloop at least I guess it was as it was just stuck on the quitely brilliant screen for 20 minutes before I shut it off and tried another firmware which did the same. I am now in the process of a Nandroid recovery so I can at least use the phone. Three have a ton of bloatware which sucks. But I gotta stick with it as cannot figure out why it wont let me flash.. All help is appreciated. This phone is alot harder to flash than my HTC Desire which was a breeze.
Vhero said:
Well I tried custom firmware after successfully unlocking my HTC One X. It says Unlocked but S-ON so not sure whats going on there? But since S-On I cannot change the CID as get the error (status read failed (too many links)) MY CID is H3G_001 and since I rooted my phone refuses to let me upgrade to OTA Jellybean which is frustrating forcing custom firmware.
Without updating CID I got stuck in a bootloop at least I guess it was as it was just stuck on the quitely brilliant screen for 20 minutes before I shut it off and tried another firmware which did the same. I am now in the process of a Nandroid recovery so I can at least use the phone. Three have a ton of bloatware which sucks. But I gotta stick with it as cannot figure out why it wont let me flash.. All help is appreciated. This phone is alot harder to flash than my HTC Desire which was a breeze.
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you cannot s-off the one x, all you have done is unlock the bootloader which will allow you to flash clockwork recovery and flash su etc.
Unlocked s-on is normal.
Unlocking has nothing to do with s-off
At present there is no way to change your cid.
2x errors have occurred here
Ota updates fail after rooting if you leave the custom recovery on there.
You needed to unlock. Flash or boot custom recovery.
Flash supersu binaries
Flash stock recovery
Then boot ROM.
That way it would have been rooted and still allow ota updates.
You have made things worse by flashing the firmware.zip
By flashing the firmware you have updated your hboot. Probably to 1.36
Which will no longer work for the ICS ROM that is on your phone.
You need to find a nandroid backup for jellybean for your cid.
Just switching to PC to find you some links
ok looked more into it
you should still be able to boot after restoring your nandroid.
dont forget to pull the boot.img from your backup and reflash it as flashing the firmware will have put the JB boot.img on
you will want to restore the stock recovery which you can find in the firmware.zip once you have restored your backup
reboot into your rom and do the OTA that way
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bagofcrap24 said:
Unlocked s-on is normal.
Unlocking has nothing to do with s-off
At present there is no way to change your cid.
2x errors have occurred here
Ota updates fail after rooting if you leave the custom recovery on there.
You needed to unlock. Flash or boot custom recovery.
Flash supersu binaries
Flash stock recovery
Then boot ROM.
That way it would have been rooted and still allow ota updates.
You have made things worse by flashing the firmware.zip
By flashing the firmware you have updated your hboot. Probably to 1.36
Which will no longer work for the ICS ROM that is on your phone.
You need to find a nandroid backup for jellybean for your cid.
Just switching to PC to find you some links
ok looked more into it
you should still be able to boot after restoring your nandroid.
dont forget to pull the boot.img from your backup and reflash it as flashing the firmware will have put the JB boot.img on
you will want to restore the stock recovery which you can find in the firmware.zip once you have restored your backup
reboot into your rom and do the OTA that way
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I restored from my nandroid and its working fine, all back to 4.0.4 with the phone unlocked I used CWM-SuperSU-v0.96.zip when i rooted my phone (or at least im sure I did as I did root over 6 months ago now).
So how would I go about updating to a custom firmware then?? Instead of the OTA as would prefer to get rid of the bloatware as half the apps aren't even English..
If you want a custom ROM
Try looking at something like latest android revolution HD
Very similar to stock but no bloat.
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If you want a custom ROM
Try looking at something like latest android revolution HD
Very similar to stock but no bloat.
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Okay thanks for that but how do I get it to work with my CID is what I would like to know do I have to first get OTA jellybean working then a custom firmware to update the CID? It seems a little confusing.. I listed my CID in first post but like I also said all custom firmwares I tried Viper X 3.3.4 and skydragon both left me with a phone stuck on boot screen for 20 minutes until i gave up and just turned off.
Your cid is irrelevant for anything except going to stock.
Custom ROMs arnt dependent on cid.
But they are dependent on hboot versions.
Cm10 ROMs will not work on any hboot>1.12
Any sense jellybean ROMs or ROMs with 3.1 kernels need a hboot version of at least 1.23
Couldn't saw viperx ROM but dragon is based on 3.17 so your hboot has to be minimum of 1.23
After installing the custom ROM you did flash the boot.IMG in fastboot didn't you?
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where i get the boot.img? I think i may have missed that part *duh* OKAY nm found that hboot is 1.12 need to update... Updating the Hboot means I have to go back to stock right? Then update OTA to get Hboot update then I can get JB..
Odp: Bootloop and changing CID issues
Vhero said:
where i get the boot.img? I think i may have missed that part *duh* OKAY nm found that hboot is 1.12 need to update... Updating the Hboot means I have to go back to stock right? Then update OTA to get Hboot update then I can get JB..
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You need a stock boot.img, stock recovery and a stock ICS Rom. Then you will get OTA to JB, upgrading that way your hboot. Then you can flash any custom JB Rom.
P.s. The correct boot.img is in the rom's zip folder. Every time you change the rom you should flash the proper boot.img.
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bartdeli said:
You need a stock boot.img, stock recovery and a stock ICS Rom. Then you will get OTA to JB, upgrading that way your hboot. Then you can flash any custom JB Rom.
P.s. The correct boot.img is in the rom's zip folder. Every time you change the rom you should flash the proper boot.img.
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Yeah problem is I need RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_H3G_UK_2.17.771.3 to go back to stock and it doesn't exist.. Anyway around the RUU exe ?
EDIT NM found I can use the nandroid method.. Giving it a shot now.
Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975140
And download your matching nandroid ! Restore it including flashing the boot.img from the nandroid. After that you flash this recovery back
http://db.tt/U5CK4noo
And you are on stock again. And also able to update to JB
That did NOT work I got back to stock but without the RUU exe file it seems it will not install I loveked my phone aswell and when i try to install the OTA update i just get kicked to bootloader.
Edit didnt see above post sorry
So did it work.....I know my method works !
Sorry yeah it worked Was up till stupidly late trying to do it as I was following another method as I never saw yours (a really old one) Where I locked my phone so had to unlock etc.. Plus download that update OTA each time took 1 hour. I'm now on stock with Hboot 1.39 thankyou so much really appreciate! So now I just reflash recovery yeah? And backup nandroid then go for my custom rom?
Yes exactly !
I now have Android Revolution working perfectly and since I paid for Nova Prime I decided to go for lite after all and removed Sense thank so much for that method so much easier than the guides on here which make it sound so difficult I really was pulling my hair out!
Nice ! Glad it worked :thumbup:
CASE CLOSED !
Hey all,
I have an AT&T One X, CID HTC_621, Main version 2.20.502.7, hboot 1.14.0002, S-On I have unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone. I installed TWRP recovery, and made a nandroid backup of the stock rom. I then tried to flash Android Revolution. This did not flash, it hung at 30% on the installer. I have tried EVERYTHING I can think of, read every post I can find, and spent over 20 hours trying to recover this phone. I can't flash an OTA, the stock recovery, or get an RUU.exe to work. I can boot into TWRP recovery, flash Clockworkmod recovery if I want, boot to bootloader, I just can't get any ROM to install, either via fastboot or recovery. I get various errors. Is there an ruu I can flash to restore everything to factory? Please help !!
Thanks.
Wrong forum, go to the HTC one XL forum. Don't flash anything from here, you cause a severe brick !
Thanks. I should pay better attention.
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I have no idea what to do here.
I had an RUU converted GPE device and I need to convert to 100% stock. I used RUU to flash the stock bootloader and change CID to 11111111.
I also reverted to S-ON.
I didn't install a Sense rom and now I'm stuck with GPE that is stuck in Safe Mode. All I have is Fastboot since the recovery is back to stock as well.
So what I have is:
Stock bootloader
S-ON
Stock recovery
GPE rom still installed
Formatted internal SD
I am completely stumped on what to do. Is my device bricked? I have to return it to HTC soon and all I have is Fastboot. I was wondering if I could flash the stock ATT img files using Fastboot, but all I have found are .zips and Nandroid backups.
Rikusaki said:
I have no idea what to do here.
I had an RUU converted GPE device and I need to convert to 100% stock. I used RUU to flash the stock bootloader and change CID to 11111111.
I also reverted to S-ON.
I didn't install a Sense rom and now I'm stuck with GPE that is stuck in Safe Mode. All I have is Fastboot since the recovery is back to stock as well.
So what I have is:
Stock bootloader
S-ON
Stock recovery
GPE rom still installed
Formatted internal SD
I am completely stumped on what to do. Is my device bricked? I have to return it to HTC soon and all I have is Fastboot. I was wondering if I could flash the stock ATT img files using Fastboot, but all I have found are .zips and Nandroid backups.
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There is a post in the general forum about returning to sense after applying a GPE RUU. Follow it to the letter and it will get you back to sense, worked for me. Saying that my device was working fine so no idea if the post will be any help but I'm sure someone will be able to help if the post doesn't work.
oaklandm said:
There is a post in the general forum about returning to sense after applying a GPE RUU. Follow it to the letter and it will get you back to sense, worked for me. Saying that my device was working fine so no idea if the post will be any help but I'm sure someone will be able to help if the post doesn't work.
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Thanks. I eventually figured it out. I flashed the stock recovery using Fastboot, booted into recovery, and did a full wipe. Then I flashed TWRP via Fastboot and did an advanced wipe including /system, but not internal SD. I then went back into Fastboot, flashed the boot.img from the AT&T rom (because I had S-ON), then I went back into TWRP and flashed the rom. Booted fine and now I have sense!
I wrote this out in detail in case anyone else ran into the same problem.
I have a Htc One M8 ; s-off, hboot 3.16, running 4.4.2. CID is Roger001, unlocked boot
Problem I have is I'm trying to restore the phone to stock because I want to do OTA updates. I followed the guide to return Canadian HTC1m8 to stock - downloaded the nandroid backup, restored it, flashed a stock image through fastboot;
However, now if I try a OTA it just reboots my phone and normally stalls out on the HTC screen. Nothing gets updated . If i try a factory reset, same thing, and it won't boot into bootloader until I wait a while then restart it. My data won't work anymore and TWRP recovery has disappeared. I think my issue is i flashed the wrong recovery .img, I'm a fairly noob. Checked all the related links and can't figure it out.
Any help would be amazing.
Use an ruu For your phone to update your hboot and make your you flash to recovery partition for twrp
htcspark said:
Use an ruu For your phone to update your hboot and make your you flash to recovery partition for twrp
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I would but
I can't find an ruu that would work, there doesn't seem to be one for rogers...I dunno if any US carriers would work?
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Use an ruu For your phone to update your hboot and make your you flash to recovery partition for twrp
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I got an update to work, I think I had the wrong stock installed so it wouldn't work properly. Only thing now is my data isn't working, any assistance with that that could be??
Instead of trouble shooting, I would just flash this TWRP backup tested to work on Rogers M8:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=58611288
See end of 1st post in above link.
It is already in lollipop. No OTA update needed.
Use latest TWRP recovery, see 2nd post in above link.