First of all, I'm running the RUU GPE edition rom for my HTC one M8, I love it. However I want xposed framework, and all of it's goodies too, otherwise imo I should have stuck with Sense version. There is one problem though. I can't seem to boot into recovery, at all. When I attempt to boot into recovery via ADB, or from the bootloader it just shows me the google logo for a while, and restarts back to android homescreen.
Could this be because I may have flashed the wrong recovery? Initially I flashed the "hammerhead" recovery from TWRP, whatever the hell that is(thought I was getting it specific for my HTC one), later once I noticed I did that I simply reflashed the correct recovery. Could this be why, if so, how can I fix that? Can I remove the recovery and reflash it?
Spewed said:
Can I remove the recovery and reflash it?
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No, flashing a recovery removes the old one, but you should do:
fastboot erase cache
BenPope said:
No, flashing a recovery removes the old one, but you should do:
fastboot erase cache
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I assumed flashing another recovery merely erased the old one. so I tried "fastboot erase cache", then "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-m8.img", to no avail, still unable to boot into my recovery by "adb reboot recovery", or any other method. I'm S-off, bootloader unlocked. When I was running sense I had s-off, custom recovery, root and twrp.
Any other ideas?
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I assumed flashing another recovery merely erased the old one. so I tried "fastboot erase cache", then "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-m8.img", to no avail, still unable to boot into my recovery by "adb reboot recovery", or any other method. I'm S-off, bootloader unlocked. When I was running sense I had s-off, custom recovery, root and twrp.
Any other ideas?
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Hmm, I assume you don't have a Sprint or Verizon M8?
BenPope said:
Hmm, I assume you don't have a Sprint or Verizon M8?
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I have the ATT version.
All of this was fine, until I made the switch to GPE, which I was under the impression I actually downloaded the rooted version, seeing as how that is the one I selected. Sadly, no root, so I began the rooting method over, to no avail.
Well, apparently I got twrp on there.
I went ahead and got the HTC One all in one toolkit to see if somehow that might flash the recovery. Of course, the actual transfer of the recovery seemed to hang, and never finish. So I unplugged the phone, it said it failed. I attempted to manually boot into recovery using power and volume down. Of course, it didn't work. Attempted to flash the recovery again using the all in one toolkit. Same scenario, it hangs and fails. Once again, I manually tried to boot into recovery. This time, miraculously it works. What the hell? haha
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So, my wife's Droid Incredible, went into a bootloop. It was completely stock, no modifications done, but while she was using it, it just started rebooting over and over again..it won't get past the first splash screen without rebooting.
At first, I thought it might have overheated, but evidently this is not the problem.
So I've been messing with it..I am able to get it into hboot (version 1.07), which I was able to unlock through hdev. I tried flashing CWM through fastboot, but the phone won't boot into recovery.
So could someone direct me to how to fix it? If I could put a stock image on the sdcard that hboot would install, would that work? Where would I find this image?
Thanks in advance.
Here is the information in hboot:
UNLOCKED
INCREDIBLEC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.07.0000
MICROP-0417
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.10.12.20
finitary said:
I tried flashing CWM through fastboot, but the phone won't boot into recovery.
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So you "tried" flashing CWM through fastboot. What exactly did you do, and what, if any, was the error? And how are you trying to get into recovery?
If you flash the recovery correctly, you should be able to get into recovery.
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So you "tried" flashing CWM through fastboot. What exactly did you do, and what, if any, was the error? And how are you trying to get into recovery?
If you flash the recovery correctly, you should be able to get into recovery.
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Okay, I did flash the recovery, with fastboot flash recovery. To boot into recovery, I am going back to the bootloader and selecting recovery. What happens is the device reenters bootloop at that point.
Update: I have now tried using PB31IMG.zip from here http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.2/ by putting onto Fat32 sd card which then does get installed in hboot. When trying to boot the system, the bootloop is unchanged. However, now when I try to boot recovery, instead of looping, the boot freezes on the htc incredible splash screen.
finitary said:
Okay, I did flash the recovery, with fastboot flash recovery. To boot into recovery, I am going back to the bootloader and selecting recovery. What happens is the device reenters bootloop at that point.
Update: I have now tried using PB31IMG.zip from here http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.2/ by putting onto Fat32 sd card which then does get installed in hboot. When trying to boot the system, the bootloop is unchanged. However, now when I try to boot recovery, instead of looping, the boot freezes on the htc incredible splash screen.
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Sounds like your recovery flash didn't take. Try putting this file on the root of a FAT32 formatted sdcrard, and then try to get into recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39092075&postcount=167
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Sounds like your recovery flash didn't take. Try putting this file on the root of a FAT32 formatted sdcrard, and then try to get into recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39092075&postcount=167
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Thanks for the help. So I went into hboot, hboot found the file, reflashed the recovery, then tried to boot into recovery but the same bootloop occurs. The splash screen htc incredible splashes, it goes black, vibrates, and splashes again until I pull the battery.
Is there anything else to try? Could I somehow replace the bootloader?
So I've tried a few more things now, still no joy -- using fastboot, I issued the following commands to flash an RUU
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip <name.zip>
However, the flash always fails.
I have also tried to use fastboot to erase the recovery.
fastboot erase recovery
Strangely, it fails when I do this, although it reports that it works when I tell it to flash a recovery image. Although I still can't boot into recovery.
However, I finally got hboot to flash one of the system roms by putting it on the sdcard (4.08.605.15 ) . Strangely enough, this worked only after I relocked the bootloader with fastboot. However, after this the situation remains unchanged.
I have successfully unlocked the bootloader. I flashed the cwm recovery by fastboot with the proper command and the command executed fine. I also erased the cache with fastboot. But when I select recovery from the hboot menu it gets stuck on to screen with the HTC logo with following text in red "this build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside of htc without written permission". I cannot access the cwm menu.
I tried the twrp recovery too but no avail. The same screen comes up.
I searched a bit and found that some have faced the same issue with HTC ONE X and had their problem solved by flashing an interim unofficial cwm built for their device. But I can't find any such interim cwm recovery for HTC ONE V.
Please help.
What command u used to flash??
rohov said:
What command u used to flash??
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fastboot flash recovery nameoftherecovery.img
In my case it was fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Nothing wrong on my side. This is not my first time.
And the commands executed without any error.
I even relocked the bootloader and unlocked it again. But, still the problem persists.
anice06 said:
fastboot flash recovery nameoftherecovery.img
In my case it was fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Nothing wrong on my side. This is not my first time.
And the commands executed without any error.
I even relocked the bootloader and unlocked it again. But, still the problem persists.
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If you take a ruu and remove the Rom.zip and from that take the recovery.img and flash that, does the phone boot into the stock recovery?
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G'day guys,
I tried to install the CM 11 Rom on my phone (HTC One X 2012 international model), i unlocked the bootloader on the Htcdev site, rooted the phone successfully,
then i rebooted in recovery using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.4.0, made a back-up rom then wipe data/factory reset and installed CM 11 rom (cm-11-20140804-SNAPSHOT-M9-endeavoru.zip) and
it came up with Status 7 error and install aborted.....and now it's stuck in a boot loop, when i reboot it boots back into the Clockwork Mod recovery
I tried turning it off and restarting, i've ran the battery down but it still reboots in cwm recovery...
Is there anyway to fix this or have i stuffed my phone?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.....
Troy67 said:
G'day guys,
I tried to install the CM 11 Rom on my phone (HTC One X 2012 international model), i unlocked the bootloader on the Htcdev site, rooted the phone successfully,
then i rebooted in recovery using ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.4.0, made a back-up rom then wipe data/factory reset and installed CM 11 rom (cm-11-20140804-SNAPSHOT-M9-endeavoru.zip) and
it came up with Status 7 error and install aborted.....and now it's stuck in a boot loop, when i reboot it boots back into the Clockwork Mod recovery
I tried turning it off and restarting, i've ran the battery down but it still reboots in cwm recovery...
Is there anyway to fix this or have i stuffed my phone?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.....
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Too old recovery you must to use TWRP6.0.1 or higer to be able to install CM11 becouse is KitKat based rom read the OP in CM11 thread and download correct TWRP or CWM. Try with this CWM6.0.4.8
Thanks, I downloaded the CWM 6.0.4.8 like you said, now i have to try and get it out of the boot loop, I've tried about 6 different sites and their methods to fix it but none of them have worked, its still stuck in recovery mode.
My phone doesnt even register when i plug it into my pc either.
Is there any advice you can give to help with this?
Troy67 said:
Thanks, I downloaded the CWM 6.0.4.8 like you said, now i have to try and get it out of the boot loop, I've tried about 6 different sites and their methods to fix it but none of them have worked, its still stuck in recovery mode.
My phone doesnt even register when i plug it into my pc either.
Is there any advice you can give to help with this?
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are you flashed boot.img via fastboot?
Thant said:
are you flashed boot.img via fastboot?
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In the instructions it said to install the ROM and then flash the boot.img.
I didnt get past installing the rom before it bootlooped.
Troy67 said:
In the instructions it said to install the ROM and then flash the boot.img.
I didnt get past installing the rom before it bootlooped.
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go in fastboot and flash the boot.img. Then try to install the rom again
Thant said:
go in fastboot and flash the boot.img. Then try to install the rom again
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Tried to flash boot.img, pressed enter and it stayed on "waiting on device".
Got into bootloader on phone and even tried a factory reset and got nowhere.
Everytime i selected an option in bootloader ie. fastboot, recovery, it just reboots into recovery.
Troy67 said:
Tried to flash boot.img, pressed enter and it stayed on "waiting on device".
Got into bootloader on phone and even tried a factory reset and got nowhere.
Everytime i selected an option in bootloader ie. fastboot, recovery, it just reboots into recovery.
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go in bootloader then select fastboot then connect the phone to computer and flash the boot.img if you don't see your device install the correct drivers for that
Thant said:
go in bootloader then select fastboot then connect the phone to computer and flash the boot.img if you don't see your device install the correct drivers for that
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I dont know how many times i've tried to do a system restore in cwm recovery this week and failed each time, but tonight i tried and after the 3rd attempt it worked.
My phone is back to normal again.
Will be using the wiki instructions when i try again.
Thanks for your help
Every time i flash the latest TWRP for the HTC One M8 GPE on the newest update 6.0.1 June security update, when flashed in fastboot, once it completes, it will automatically boot into twrp, i select the option to allow system modifications, and when i reboot into system it boots just fine, but when booting back into the bootloader, and into TWRP I'm greeted with this screen.
any help would be appreciated, i tried searching the forum, but had no luck finding anyone else with this issue
Because you use command
fastboot boot NameOfTWRP.img
To correctly install TWRP, use command
fastboot flash recovery NameOfTWRP.img
ckpv5 said:
Because you use command
fastboot boot NameOfTWRP.img
To correctly install TWRP, use command
fastboot flash recovery NameOfTWRP.img
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Thanks for the prompt reply!, I'll give it a try when i get home!
So i had success flashing TWRP properly, and can now boot into it, back up my OS etc, however, when i flash the latest version of chainfire root via TWRP i get a boot loop every time, I'm wiping the cache after preforming the flash, have any ideas what i might be doing wrong?
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Showever, when i flash the latest version of chainfire root via TWRP i get a boot loop every time
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What version number SuperSU are you using exactly? A lot of times, folks use what they think is the "latest", but when asked what version number, we find out its not even close to current (which has the common result of bootloop).
Hello everyone. I got a M8s from a friend wich is stuck in bootloader. The recovery didn't work at the begin, so I flashed twrp-recovery-2.8.6.0-m8s-qlul.img (flashing recovery using htc_fastboot.exe flash recovery theimagename.img) and it worked, then I tried to install a custom ROM Android_Pandora_Rom_1.2_(Discontinued).zip wich went all the steps fine until: Optimizing applications 8 of 204..then phone shat down to black screen. I booted back to bootloader, recovery, wiped and go for a new install, same issue.
After that, I was going to install lineage-13.0-20170715-UNOFFICIAL-m8qlul.zip where the developer of this rom recommends twrp-3.0.2-0-m8ql.img so I tried to flash it (flashing recovery using htc_fastboot.exe flash recovery theimagename.img), then tried to acces recovery, brings me back to bootloader so fast, rebooted bootloader, tried again, same problem. Tried the fasboot erase cache, no help.
The Hboot state is Unlocked and the S is ON. I tried some other recovery images, as stock_signed or 3.0.1, tried the one from M8 ToolKit but all failed and I still can't access recovery, everyting I do, it brings me back to bootloader. I did htc_fastboot boot recoveryfile.img wich works, but useless, the dd if= method to set the recovery permanent load did not work after reboot, /data and /system can't be mountet, it seems the "boot recovery" option is 99% readonly.
Any advice, any help please? It would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Hi McBad,
you could try the following. I also had some problems to access the recovery.
- Again bring the phone into fastboot, flash the 2.8 recovery and access it
- Do a wipe for factory reset, not just only cache
- after that try to flash the twrp-3.0.1-0-m8ql.img version, the other one worked for me neither
- the try to install the custom ROM LOS13
I hope this will help you.
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It would be great if that would work, but flashing a recovery does not work. I flash it, success message, try to access it, vibrates and bootloader pops back instantly. That is the problem.
Sorry for double post, but can anyone help me with this? This is the second day I struggle to make it work. Any chance to make the hboot locked again? It didn't work with oem lock command. I would like to lock it so I can put an official zip on sdcard so the hboot to restore it to factory stock, some RUU. Or get it s-off so I can flash a rom from fastboot? The phone does not have any ROM on it, image crc results system 0x0, recovery 0x0. Please, help!
Have you tried sideloading twrp ?
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Sorry for double post, but can anyone help me with this? This is the second day I struggle to make it work. Any chance to make the hboot locked again? It didn't work with oem lock command. I would like to lock it so I can put an official zip on sdcard so the hboot to restore it to factory stock, some RUU. Or get it s-off so I can flash a rom from fastboot? The phone does not have any ROM on it, image crc results system 0x0, recovery 0x0. Please, help!
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Did you use HTC fastboot ?
Yes, I used htc_fastboot. Use sideloading? Like boot the img file directly? Tried that too.
McBad said:
Yes, I used htc_fastboot. Use sideloading? Like boot the img file directly? Tried that too.
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Is there any way you could flash twrp 2.8 again? Once in that recovery you have sideloading option which you could use to transfer latest recovery onto your device. Are we talking about the same process?
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Yes, I used htc_fastboot. Use sideloading? Like boot the img file directly? Tried that too.
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Sideload as follows ....
McBad said:
Hello everyone. I got a M8s from a friend wich is stuck in bootloader. The recovery didn't work at the begin, so I flashed twrp-recovery-2.8.6.0-m8s-qlul.img (flashing recovery using htc_fastboot.exe flash recovery theimagename.img) and it worked, then I tried to install a custom ROM Android_Pandora_Rom_1.2_(Discontinued).zip wich went all the steps fine until: Optimizing applications 8 of 204..then phone shat down to black screen. I booted back to bootloader, recovery, wiped and go for a new install, same issue.
After that, I was going to install lineage-13.0-20170715-UNOFFICIAL-m8qlul.zip where the developer of this rom recommends twrp-3.0.2-0-m8ql.img so I tried to flash it (flashing recovery using htc_fastboot.exe flash recovery theimagename.img), then tried to acces recovery, brings me back to bootloader so fast, rebooted bootloader, tried again, same problem. Tried the fasboot erase cache, no help.
The Hboot state is Unlocked and the S is ON. I tried some other recovery images, as stock_signed or 3.0.1, tried the one from M8 ToolKit but all failed and I still can't access recovery, everyting I do, it brings me back to bootloader. I did htc_fastboot boot recoveryfile.img wich works, but useless, the dd if= method to set the recovery permanent load did not work after reboot, /data and /system can't be mountet, it seems the "boot recovery" option is 99% readonly.
Any advice, any help please? It would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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You can't install lineage if you haven't upgraded your device with latest official update. I would try reinstaling twrp 2.8, do a wipe of cache, dalvik cache and system, Sideload CM 12; and see how it goes. As well, while in twrp I would try relocking bootloader but only after an unsuccessful attempt to flash said rom. I don't know what your experience with soft bricked devices is, but sometimes it takes a while, different usb cable or usb slot on your PC, correct files in adb folder, re-download of rom or recovery because it easily gets corrupted while downloading. And obviously a fully charged device. Let us know how it goes.