I soft bricked my M8 and wiped the phone with twrp then tried to sideload the GPE rom I was using again and it wouldn't work. In fact I can't flash any rom that isn't cyanogen mod nightly for the m8... Also my bootloader changed from the white screen with the droid bots on a skateboard to a black screen with a single droid on it. Any idea why I can't flash anything besides cyanogen?
Rye Cribby Tree said:
I soft bricked my M8 and wiped the phone with twrp then tried to sideload the GPE rom I was using again and it wouldn't work. In fact I can't flash any rom that isn't cyanogen mod nightly for the m8... Also my bootloader changed from the white screen with the droid bots on a skateboard to a black screen with a single droid on it. Any idea why I can't flash anything besides cyanogen?
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Did you try pushing the rom instead of sideloading it? Apparently sideloading in TWRP doesn't work, or doesn't work like it should
Try pushing it to the correct path and flash again.
Are you S-OFF?
BerndM14 said:
Did you try pushing the rom instead of sideloading it? Apparently sideloading in TWRP doesn't work, or doesn't work like it should
Try pushing it to the correct path and flash again.
Are you S-OFF?
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Yeah, once I got the phone fixed I tried to load it normally. However it still didn't work. I tried other recoveries like Philz Touch too. Unfortunately firewater doesn't work for me.
Rye Cribby Tree said:
Yeah, once I got the phone fixed I tried to load it normally. However it still didn't work. I tried other recoveries like Philz Touch too. Unfortunately firewater doesn't work for me.
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Try flashing the boot.img file that comes with the ROM first, then re-flash the ROM of your choice.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Go back into recovery of choice, wipe cache, dalvik-cache etc Then go to installed zip and select the ROM of your choice and flash the ROM.
Firewater won't work anymore for "later released" models that gets shipped with latest firmware. HTC patched it, you "MIGHT" be lucky if you still have an older device.
The developers of Firewater did however create another method to S-OFF the device. [Android][HTC S-OFF] SunShine for modern HTC devices
Sunshine is $25 but it works. It first checks your phone for compatibility before you pay for anything. That way if your device "isn't" compatible then it won't make you pay $25 for something that "won't" work.
Something to look into if you have $25 to spare :good:
BerndM14 said:
Try flashing the boot.img file that comes with the ROM first, then re-flash the ROM of your choice.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Go back into recovery of choice, wipe cache, dalvik-cache etc Then go to installed zip and select the ROM of your choice and flash the ROM.
Firewater won't work anymore for "later released" models that gets shipped with latest firmware. HTC patched it, you "MIGHT" be lucky if you still have an older device.
The developers of Firewater did however create another method to S-OFF the device. [Android][HTC S-OFF] SunShine for modern HTC devices
Sunshine is $25 but it works. It first checks your phone for compatibility before you pay for anything. That way if your device "isn't" compatible then it won't make you pay $25 for something that "won't" work.
Something to look into if you have $25 to spare :good:
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I tried flashing the boot.img and it didn't work sadly. It fails as soon as I swipe to flash.
Rye Cribby Tree said:
I tried flashing the boot.img and it didn't work sadly. It fails as soon as I swipe to flash.
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Did you flash in fastboot?Try to download twrp from its officical site.Also maybe you have downloaded a bad version of the rom.
Jyotirdeb said:
Did you flash in fastboot?Try to download twrp from its officical site.Also maybe you have downloaded a bad version of the rom.
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There is no offical twrp for the AT&T version of the m8 and I did flash in fastboot. The ROM I used worked in a previous installation as well. It soft bricked after updating so I completely wiped the phone now it wont install.
I had a similar problem, I had to use the format option in twrp and then used RUU
gonzo237 said:
I had a similar problem, I had to use the format option in twrp and then used RUU
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Do you have a link? Or something I could look up and find on my own?
Rye Cribby Tree said:
Do you have a link? Or something I could look up and find on my own?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727831
Now this one is for the Verizon HTC, but maybe this will help you.
gonzo237 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727831
Now this one is for the Verizon HTC, but maybe this will help you.
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Ah, I can't s-off, thank you for the reply though I'm sure someone else with this problem will find this helpful.
Rye Cribby Tree said:
Ah, I can't s-off, thank you for the reply though I'm sure someone else with this problem will find this helpful.
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I'd still give the format option a try, I wasn't able to flash any roms except for the CM nightly as well, then I made it worse by trying to wipe the internal data which led to not being able to mount the internal partition, and couldn't even get into the bootloader until my phone battery died. I remember reading that the format would allow me to mount the internal storage. You may be able to fix the issues with a format and then try flashing a rom.
Did you try converting your phone over to GPE? That's what it sounds like you tried to do. If so then that is why nothing is working because the partitions are layed out differently from a stock sense M8. You need to wipe everything and run whatever RUU is available for your device and pray to god it works because you are s-on... You seriously should have been s-off before doing all of this. Being s-on is really going to complicate things for you bro... That's also probably why you can't fastboot the kernel. Find a RUU for your phone and run it. Post back here if you get any "main version" errors cuz then some tricks will need to be done.. Feel free to PM me, maybe I can assist directly getting you back up and running...
gonzo237 said:
I'd still give the format option a try, I wasn't able to flash any roms except for the CM nightly as well, then I made it worse by trying to wipe the internal data which led to not being able to mount the internal partition, and couldn't even get into the bootloader until my phone battery died. I remember reading that the format would allow me to mount the internal storage. You may be able to fix the issues with a format and then try flashing a rom.
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Great news, your suggestion worked! I'm able to flash the sinless GPE 4.4.4 rom! No more nightly's for this guy.:good:
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Hello peeps,
I've just come from an iphone so please forgive my stupidity. I've been looking around XDA and various other places for 2 days trying to sort my One X, but don't seem to be making any progress.
I currently only have access to the bootloader
I managed to unlock and root the phone, but then got stuck on a boot loop which I haven't been able to get out of. I was able to get into the OS, but had no cell or wifi, but now I'm just stuck in the bootloader after a failed flash of probably an incorrect RUU. The phone has been relocked.
I ran Vtool from post 7 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989358, and my main version is 2.17.206.2
I'm in the UK on the o2 network.
Can someone please help??
slixter said:
Hello peeps,
I've just come from an iphone so please forgive my stupidity. I've been looking around XDA and various other places for 2 days trying to sort my One X, but don't seem to be making any progress.
I currently only have access to the bootloader
I managed to unlock and root the phone, but then got stuck on a boot loop which I haven't been able to get out of. I was able to get into the OS, but had no cell or wifi, but now I'm just stuck in the bootloader after a failed flash of probably an incorrect RUU. The phone has been relocked.
I ran Vtool from post 7 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989358, and my main version is 2.17.206.2
I'm in the UK on the o2 network.
Can someone please help??
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ok but what do you want to do now? keep it unlocked or not?
matt95 said:
ok but what do you want to do now? keep it unlocked or not?
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I'd like to unlock it with a custom rom, but I'm quite happy just to have a working phone again.
Additional info, I also have access to CWM
slixter said:
I'd like to unlock it with a custom rom, but I'm quite happy just to have a working phone again.
Additional info, I also have access to CWM
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Phone is also unlocked again using Hasoons all in one kit.
Happy to hear of a fellow iphone convert :thumbup:
Is there something in particular you did that caused the boot loop?
Do you by chance have a nandroid backup?
jonnyboiii said:
Is there something in particular you did that caused the boot loop?
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I've got no idea to be honest.
I've got no back ups.
If you have access to cwm then you're not totally out of luck, I think your best option would be to flash a stock rom for your particular phone.
jonnyboiii said:
If you have access to cwm then you're not totally out of luck, I think your best option would be to flash a stock rom for your particular phone.
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Can you direct me to a stock rom?
did you flash the boot.img when you got bootloops?
matt95 said:
did you flash the boot.img when you got bootloops?
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Pretty sure i didn't
slixter said:
Pretty sure i didn't
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that's why you got bootloops... when you flash a rom you need to flash its boot.img too
matt95 said:
that's why you got bootloops... when you flash a rom you need to flash its boot.img too
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So do i need to flash the boot.img and the rom from CWM and I should be ok?
Just look around in the One-X forum, do some searching, see if you can find a stock rom to download to your computer then move to your phone.
CWM has this handy feature I think in the "mount" tab, where you can mount your phone as a usb device, from which your computer will pick it up and you'll be able to move the roms file to your phone for flashing.
jonnyboiii said:
Just look around in the One-X forum, do some searching, see if you can find a stock rom to download to your computer then move to your phone.
CWM has this handy feature I think in the "mount" tab, where you can mount your phone as a usb device, from which your computer will pick it up and you'll be able to move the roms file to your phone for flashing.
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Thanks for the info - think I have a rom I can use.
1 more question before i continue, how do i flash the boot.img file? I have a zip with the rom / boot.img
I have mounted as usb storage and copied the zip file across
I've installed CM, after wiping cache, dalvik, system etc, but seem to be stuck on the JB animation screen.
Wondering if this means the OS is installing, or if I'm still stuffed....
I don't know if I need to do something with the boot.img file as the onlyl thing i did was load the zip file for CM
slixter said:
I've installed CM, after wiping cache, dalvik, system etc, but seem to be stuck on the JB animation screen.
Wondering if this means the OS is installing, or if I'm still stuffed....
I don't know if I need to do something with the boot.img file as the onlyl thing i did was load the zip file for CM
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Personally I've flashed a total of three roms which isn't many, but in all my time spent reading threads of the latest and greatest roms I've never heard anything about a separate boot.img that you needed to flash... (perhaps a One-X specific thing?).
Just be patient with it when it's booting, the first boot after an install always takes longer.
jonnyboiii said:
Personally I've flashed a total of three roms which isn't many, but in all my time spent reading threads of the latest and greatest roms I've never heard anything about a separate boot.img that you needed to flash... (perhaps a One-X specific thing?).
Just be patient with it when it's booting, the first boot after an install always takes longer.
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I do need to flash the boot.img first.
I'll do that once my battery gets some more charge.
How much charge does it have right now? It's important to always go into using CWM on a substantial amount of battery life. Upwards of %50 is recommended, but but you should do just fine with around 30, that is assuming you're able to tell.
slixter said:
I do need to flash the boot.img first.
I'll do that once my battery gets some more charge.
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download the rom's boot.img and type with the phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img
after that your phone will boot up correctly
jonnyboiii said:
How much charge does it have right now? It's important to always go into using CWM on a substantial amount of battery life. Upwards of %50 is recommended, but but you should do just fine with around 30, that is assuming you're able to tell.
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How do you tell how much charge it has?
matt95 said:
download the rom's boot.img and type with the phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img
after that your phone will boot up correctly
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Fastboot won't let me flash cos of the low battery, so will let the phone charge for a bit then try again. Thanks.
My procedure in chronological order:
Flashed recovery TWRP 2.3
Wiped everything possible in the wipe-tab
Installed CM9/10 from zip on SD-card (zip contains META-INF, system and boot.img)
Flashed boot.img from the zip file CM9/10
Issued the command fastboot erase cache
Unplugged cable and reboot
What happens is that I am stuck at the HTC booting screen. I have been here for about 30-40 minutes. If I try any adb shell command I receive this error: - exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -. Clearly, something is not right here. I will not speculate because I lack the knowledge to do so. Any help is appreciated because I have been phone-less for a day now and it is getting irritating. Thanks!
Seems you did everything correctly.
Try to flash via ClockWorkMod recovery.
Sent from my HTC One X
TToivanen said:
Seems you did everything correctly.
Try to flash via ClockWorkMod recovery.
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I just did the same procedure as before but with clockworkmod instead. Still hung at booting screen. I get the same error as before. Is root access a must? I have not done any exploit, only thing I have done is unlocked my boot loader at HTCDev.
zettez said:
I just did the same procedure as before but with clockworkmod instead. Still hung at booting screen. I get the same error as before. Is root access a must? I have not done any exploit, only thing I have done is unlocked my boot loader at HTCDev.
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Root should not be needed since most roms are rooted by default.
Did you flash gapps?
TToivanen said:
Root should not be needed since most roms are rooted by default.
Did you flash gapps?
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No, I have not. Maybe I should give it a try? Or is it not required? Should I not be able to start the phone without any gapps?
Do you by chance have any ROM you can recommend that works so I could try it out and exclude problems? Would very like to know if it is my phone or ROM that is buggy.
It should boot without them, but better to give it a try.
Ironically, I've been using CM10 for more than a month now and never had any problems booting.
Sent from my HTC One X
If you have an hboot newer than 1.12 you need a different boot.img, check the bottom if the ROM OP.
TToivanen said:
It should boot without them, but better to give it a try.
Ironically, I've been using CM10 for more than a month now and never had any problems booting.
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Would you mind telling me which CM10 build you are using and which boot.img you flashed?
BenPope said:
If you have an hboot newer than 1.12 you need a different boot.img, check the bottom if the ROM OP.
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I have hboot 1.3 or something I think. I downloaded the different builds at get.cm. Where can I get the boot.img if not the one in the zip file? Do you mean whichever thread that CM have posted themselves here on xda? Would you mind sending a link to where I can find the boot.img?
zettez said:
I have hboot 1.3 or something I think. I downloaded the different builds at get.cm. Where can I get the boot.img if not the one in the zip file? Do you mean whichever thread that CM have posted themselves here on xda? Would you mind sending a link to where I can find the boot.img?
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Normally it would be found in the bottom of CM10 threads OP but the link is down.
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34829297&postcount=9173
Remember to repack it with the one found in zip. Repack tool stickied on android development forum.
Sent from my HTC One X
TToivanen said:
Normally it would be found in the bottom of CM10 threads OP but the link is down.
Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34829297&postcount=9173
Remember to repack it with the one found in zip. Repack tool stickied on android development forum.
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Thanks, but still a no go. What I did was take the modified boot from your link and the boot.img from the zip file, do the online converter as stickied on the forum, then did the procedure all again but this time I flashed the new boot.img I got from combining the old and the new boot.img. Still hangs at boot. Very annoying. I am currently using a modified stock ROM and I dislike it very much.
Hey,
I have exactly the same issue. I've unlocked my bootloader using the method as specified by htcdev.com. Then I flashed the newest CWM recovery. But if I flash any ROM, I'm stuck at its boot animation. However if I then unzip the boot.img from the ROM, and flash that (fastboot flash boot boot.img), my phone won't boot past HTC screen. Even erasing the cache didn't help (fastboot erase cache).
I've restored the stock ROM using the RUU, however during the process something went wrong and it formatted my sd-card. So I'm stuck with the stock ROM, without any applications or data.
Can anybody help me flash CM10?
My Hboot version is 1.36.0000
And I'm trying to flash the cm-10-20121210-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip ROM.
Thanks in advance
Han
irundaia said:
Hey,
I have exactly the same issue. I've unlocked my bootloader using the method as specified by htcdev.com. Then I flashed the newest CWM recovery. But if I flash any ROM, I'm stuck at its boot animation. However if I then unzip the boot.img from the ROM, and flash that (fastboot flash boot boot.img), my phone won't boot past HTC screen. Even erasing the cache didn't help (fastboot erase cache).
I've restored the stock ROM using the RUU, however during the process something went wrong and it formatted my sd-card. So I'm stuck with the stock ROM, without any applications or data.
Can anybody help me flash CM10?
My Hboot version is 1.36.0000
And I'm trying to flash the cm-10-20121210-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip ROM.
Thanks in advance
Han
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You cannot use the boot.img that comes with the zip out of the box if you have Hboot 1.36. What you have to do is repack it, taking the boot.img from the zip file and then a modified boot.img here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=9173 (thanks TToivanen), then as I understood it, repack it for instance here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815607, download the repacked boot.img and flash that.
With that said, I could not get it running but it might be something wrong with my phone. Please try this out and tell me if it works or not so I may start to conclude where the error lies.
zettez said:
Thanks, but still a no go. What I did was take the modified boot from your link and the boot.img from the zip file, do the online converter as stickied on the forum, then did the procedure all again but this time I flashed the new boot.img I got from combining the old and the new boot.img. Still hangs at boot. Very annoying. I am currently using a modified stock ROM and I dislike it very much.
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Sorry, but all I can say is that you did a mistake at some point.
Try installing again with full wipe and remember to wipe cache and dalvik.
You are referring to the official CM10 and not Trip's or any other builds right?
TToivanen said:
Sorry, but all I can say is that you did a mistake at some point.
Try installing again with full wipe and remember to wipe cache and dalvik.
You are referring to the official CM10 and not Trip's or any other builds right?
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Will try again. I got the latest build from http://get.cm/?device=endeavoru. Will try cm-10-20121213-NIGHTLY-endeavoru.zip as it came out today.
zettez said:
You cannot use the boot.img that comes with the zip out of the box if you have Hboot 1.36. What you have to do is repack it, taking the boot.img from the zip file and then a modified boot.img here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=9173 (thanks TToivanen), then as I understood it, repack it for instance here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1815607, download the repacked boot.img and flash that.
With that said, I could not get it running but it might be something wrong with my phone. Please try this out and tell me if it works or not so I may start to conclude where the error lies.
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I did that and now my phone is still stuck on the HTC screen. Trying to restore my backup of the stock ROM atm.
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hmm the backup was useless... Off to the RUU it is....
irundaia said:
[/COLOR]hmm the backup was useless... Off to the RUU it is....
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You flashed the stock boot.img before restoring?
irundaia said:
I did that and now my phone is still stuck on the HTC screen. Trying to restore my backup of the stock ROM atm.
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I see, then it is not only I who have this problem.
And a heads up, if the backup would go wrong, I currently use this ROM and it works pretty good if you want stock or cannot be arsed to get a root exploit for the stock ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035203.
Would be great if anyone has any ideas why irundaia and I cannot make CM10 work?
TToivanen said:
You flashed the stock boot.img before restoring?
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You're right, I forgot to do that. I does boot now, still at a loss though. Can't we downgrade our Hboot to a version in which we know that CM can be flashed?
Kinda out of ideas here...
Can you confirm that the boot.img flashes ok? (should say OKAY)
Also confirm that you have endeavoru and not evita.
Phone won't boot
Basketballhero75 said:
Yesterday I tried to root, unlock bootloader, and S-Off my device:
1.) Started with root. I downloaded weaksauce (I was on a firmware that still supported it)
Obtained temporary root while booted into OS
2.) Firewater to gain S-OFF and unlock bootloader
Worked like a charm
3.) Flashed TWRP Recovery
Worked like a charm
4.) Downloaded and flashed a new ROM (Andybones)
Horrible idea.
After backing up my nandroid backup, I did a system wipe like always and tried to load the new ROM... didn't work. I got nervous and tried to restore backup. Didn't work.
I tried to RUU the phone back to stock. Didn't work. Phone went wonky somehow along the process and now my partition tables are all screwed up. Phone will not boot, only load HTC splashscreen.
I have maintained fastboot from the bootloader, and my custom recoveries still boot, but they cannot mount the internal SD card at all. I get the errors "E: Can't mount /Internal Storage" or E: Can't mount /cache".
I've flashed multiple RUUs and none of them seem to fix my issue. Even though the system installs, the phone can't boot from that system and any recovery I have can't help me either since it can't read into the SD card at all, or even detect it. My Internal storage space is defined as 0MB.
I'm stuck with a brick as of right now and could really use some help. If anyone has a skype or anything please reach out to me. I am left phoneless for the time being. This should be fixable since I have s-off still; I just don't have the experience to do it.
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Exactly what file did you use to flash TWRP?
jpradley said:
Exactly what file did you use to flash TWRP?
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What?
Basketballhero75 said:
I've used various different recoveries of TWRP including 2.7.1.2, and some others (not on my other computer at the moment). I also tried the most up to date CWM recovery. None of them are able to mount, repair, sideload, or fix any of the partitions.
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I didn't ask you for the version of TWRP, I asked for the exact name of the TWRP image file you used. And where did you get it?
No idea
Basketballhero75 said:
A developer friend of mine was helping me out and he was doing all the downloading and flashing. I'm not too sure of the where but the file name is "TWRP_2.7.1.2.zip". and the CWM recovery was called "Recovery 6.0.4.8".
I'm 99.5% sure that it's not the recovery that's the issue here though.
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The reason he is asking is because our model has different mount points than the other variants. Use the recovery in the below linked thread. It is flashable in ruu mode. He may have flashed an m7 recovery and not an m7wlv/m7vzw recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2867643
Sent from my HTC6500LVWBLU using XDA Free mobile app
Have your friend who helped you inform you if he used a specific Verizon ruu and recovery, as using an International, AT&T, Sprint, GPE, etc ruu will wreak havoc and cause headaches.
Use the ruu and follow dottdat's instructions in the above thread. If you can boot to bootloader, then all is not lost, just follow the instructions and commands to ruu with the Verizon specific ruu and recovery found in that thread and you should be set.
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Uzephi said:
Have your friend who helped you inform you if he used a specific Verizon ruu and recovery, as using an International, AT&T, Sprint, GPE, etc ruu will wreak havoc and cause headaches.
Use the ruu and follow dottdat's instructions in the above thread. If you can boot to bootloader, then all is not lost, just follow the instructions and commands to ruu with the Verizon specific ruu and recovery found in that thread and you should be set.
Sent from my HTC6500LVWBLU using XDA Free mobile app
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His friend didn't use the wrong recovery ?
Sadly this one appear to be a case of bad emmc
@Basketballhero75, Have you found resolution to your issue?
TonyStark said:
@Basketballhero75, Have you found resolution to your issue?
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Yes. He did. New phone.
If you have one in this state I can share a couple ideas.
I just updated to 4.4.4 3.28.1540.6 firmware on my Developer Edition HTC One and now whenever I try to run the recovery from fastboot, my phone freezes! what am I doing wrong? this is what I do:
boot into fastboot and then type "fastboot boot TWRP.img" I also tried with Philz.img but no luck.
samanbabah said:
I just updated to 4.4.4 3.28.1540.6 firmware on my Developer Edition HTC One and now whenever I try to run the recovery from fastboot, my phone freezes! what am I doing wrong? this is what I do:
boot into fastboot and then type "fastboot boot TWRP.img" I also tried with Philz.img but no luck.
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Recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot right now. You will actually have to flash a recovery, then install a superuser zip. Unfortunately, this means overwriting the new stock recovery, but it's the only way to re-root right now.
Either that, or wait until the devs for one of the recoveries figures out why booting from fastboot is failing.
samanbabah said:
I just updated to 4.4.4 3.28.1540.6 firmware on my Developer Edition HTC One and now whenever I try to run the recovery from fastboot, my phone freezes! what am I doing wrong? this is what I do:
boot into fastboot and then type "fastboot boot TWRP.img" I also tried with Philz.img but no luck.
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Try "adb reboot fastboot", and understand what you're doing before you mod your phone. I've seen you with issues lately that you wouldn't have if you read all of the instructions for what you are trying to do and followed then exactly. You are going to end up with a brick of you don't.
jshamlet said:
Recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot right now. You will actually have to flash a recovery, then install a superuser zip. Unfortunately, this means overwriting the new stock recovery, but it's the only way to re-root right now.
Either that, or wait until the devs for one of the recoveries figures out why booting from fastboot is failing.
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yeah I just don't want to write over the stock recovery so I can get OTA updates in the future. I guess I'll wait for devs to update their recoveries.
samanbabah said:
yeah I just don't want to write over the stock recovery so I can get OTA updates in the future. I guess I'll wait for devs to update their recoveries.
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Yeah, I failed to realize there was a way to get around that, and blew my stock recovery away.
That said, I think that you could use Sunshine, assuming it's temp-root feature still works, and abort before running the compatibility test. Then, use a local terminal to backup the stock recovery. There is a dd command to pull the recovery block to a file around here somewhere. Unfortunately, I didn't think of that in time to back mine up.
I have posted a request for the new Developer Edition recovery in another thread, though, so hopefully someone can extract it and post it.
jshamlet said:
Recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot right now. You will actually have to flash a recovery, then install a superuser zip. Unfortunately, this means overwriting the new stock recovery, but it's the only way to re-root right now.
Either that, or wait until the devs for one of the recoveries figures out why booting from fastboot is failing.
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This has to be Dev Ed specific, because I have no problems, and I really haven't heard of many others having problems either.
Plus, "recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot *right now*"? It isn't like an online service where the website is down.
Flash a backup and fix your sh*t.
xunholyx said:
This has to be Dev Ed specific, because I have no problems, and I really haven't heard of many others having problems either.
Plus, "recoveries are having problems booting from fastboot *right now*"? It isn't like an online service where the website is down.
Flash a backup and fix your sh*t.
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Dude, seriously, there are many brands of decaf on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
The issue with recoveries not booting correctly is a noted issue, and started with WWE users. I got a hard lock on TWRP 2.8.0.3, and Philz seemed to running, but with no video. It is interesting that not everyone is having that issue, though. Right now, the only "workaround" is to actually flash. When I say "not working right now", I mean that the developers haven't found/fixed the issue yet, but you knew that, so I'll move on.
Also, it's not like I don't know how to get a stock recovery. It's just I'd rather not have to go through the hassle if I don't have to, especially since it's not exactly time-critical. There probably won't be another OTA for a while, and I have no doubt someone will post a copy of the updated recovery before then.
jshamlet said:
Dude, seriously, there are many brands of decaf on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
The issue with recoveries not booting correctly is a noted issue, and started with WWE users. I got a hard lock on TWRP 2.8.0.3, and Philz seemed to running, but with no video. It is interesting that not everyone is having that issue, though. Right now, the only "workaround" is to actually flash. When I say "not working right now", I mean that the developers haven't found/fixed the issue yet, but you knew that, so I'll move on.
Also, it's not like I don't know how to get a stock recovery. It's just I'd rather not have to go through the hassle if I don't have to, especially since it's not exactly time-critical. There probably won't be another OTA for a while, and I have no doubt someone will post a copy of the updated recovery before then.
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I actually have heard of problems with CWM and Philz (CWM based)on the ViperOne thread. They state in OP and several times in the thread when screw ups happen to only use TWRP. I always thought it was ROM specific, and because of all the USE TWRP! posts, I haven't heard of recovery problems like this.
Maybe a switch to TWRP will fix his problem?
I'm not really seeing the issue here....you just can't boot the custom recovery from a command prompt(temporarily most likely). You can still flash twrp, do what you need to do(i.e. root,etc), then flash the stock recovery back in less than 5 minutes. You could probably just extract the recovery from the OTA or the rom you flashed. It literally took you more time to post your replies here than it would have taken you to do that....just saying.
Here's the stock recovery image that was posted in another thread: http://goo.gl/KsKQvk
I went through the same thing yesterday being unable to temporary boot to trwp. Sunshine didn't work giving me temp root and Weaksauce and Towelroot didn't do it either.
Custom recovery and Supersu flash worked as always.
HTC One M8
I just recently got an HTC one m7 that I've fully unlocked, s-off'd, and rooted and now when I try to install a Rom it fails or I should say it hangs on 1% never advancing. Furthest I've gotten is 7% on santod's nusensesixMAX Rom but it wouldn't finish. Is it my recovery? I'm on the latest TWRP. Anyone with any input please
Have you tried the No data Wipe RUU and see if it takes?
No I haven't
I would suggest doing that RUU. it is the one @dottat made where he says it will not wipe SD card that way you do not lose anything on the card. If it is a borked emmc chip and needs fixing, Dottat has some tricks up his sleeve that may work.
What's really weird is every time I boot into twrp I'm having issues with mounting system.
Do u have a link I can't seem to find it
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What's really weird is every time I boot into twrp I'm having issues with mounting system.
Do u have a link I can't seem to find it
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Thanks to dottat!!!! It's here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-one/help/exe-ruu-vzw-m7-4-4-3-s-users-t2919442
eriknors said:
What's really weird is every time I boot into twrp I'm having issues with mounting system.
Do u have a link I can't seem to find it
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Update your twrp recovery to the latest. That is why system won't mount in recovery.