Hello,
I have here a Desire HD which was running Ice Cold Sandwich. The ROM became unstable, so I wanted to give CM 10.1 a try. This Desire HD was been HTC Dev unlocked, but is still S-ON. So, I can't flash the boot partition from recovery. I rebooted the phone into fastboot and flashed the boot partition. (fastboot flash boot boot.img) I thought it was possible to reboot to recovery with fastboot, but it seems to be not possible. So I did "fastboot reboot". And that's where the misery started...
Although I was able to navigate through the bootloader with the volume rocker, I seem to be unable to boot the device in fastboot nor the recovery. It keeps booting ICS. However, the volume down seems only to work occasionally. Because it's not running the ICS boot.img, it's stuck in a bootloop. When the device is "booting" and I try to reboot the device using adb, I get the message that my computer is not authorised.
I do the following when attempting to boot in fastboot or recovery: (I don't really care if I get the device to boot in fastboot or recovery. I can get the device to work in fastboot or recovery.)
I make sure that the device is turned off completely by removing the battery. Then I hold the volume up (that seems to be the best working one) and after about half a second I press the power button. I hold both until the white HTC screen goes away. I also tried to let the powerbutton go at the moment that the HTC screen appears.
Quick summary:
State of the device:
HTC Dev unlocked.
Running Ice Cold Sandwich.
Recovery is 4EXT.
CM 10.1 boot.img.
Bootlooping.
Not responding when holding the volume button when booting.
Unable to connect to it using adb.
Can someone please, please help me? I'm usually not a noob, but I really f*****d it up this time.
The worst part is: it's not even mine...
I fixed it. The volume rocker seemed to be the problem. I removed the sticker under the battery cover and popped the buttons out. While holding the battery with my left thumb, using my left hand for pushing the volume down button and pushing the powerbutton with my left index finger I got it to boot to the bootloader. Yes, it was pretty awkward. I flashed the ROM from the SD card and it boots.
My problem is solved!
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Hey guys, hoping someone can answer this because it's kind of a dire situation... but I was flashing a new updated Rom to my phone, specifically Blackout ICS INCREDIBLE V.3.1.0 and when using the aroma installer that comes with it from rrecovery, i decided not to do a full wipe because i already have blackout v3.0 so i thought it would just update the rom like usual. Anyways my problem is when i turn it on, after the HTC logo it just goes to a black screen and will not boot. Normally if I have a bad flash I just boot up the recovery but heres the catch... my volume down button doesn't really work.. fml
Is there a way to possibly adb push my phone without recovery? Because i cant get into recovery by holding power+down
See point 6 of this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1605720
You should be able to boot a recovery.img stored on your pc using fastboot if you can run fastboot commands from where you are.
Edit: easier method - if you can run fastboot commands then run fastboot reboot -bootloader. Use the vol plus key to navigate hboot.
Maybe a silly question but as the post below suggests have you tried pressing vol - really hard?
I had the same issue today and my dhd also has a damaged downbutton.
Anyway i removed the cover on the battery slot and clicked it only in the upper part to get the contact, after that i overpushed the downbutton and bootloader showed up!
Hope this could help u or someone!
I have unlocked my bootloader then install the recovery.
And I am flashing a ROM ,but as I came from Atrix the step was to flash from recovery
I didn't read the instruction and flash the ROM through recovery without flashing boot.img first
Now, I can't boot to my ROM (It stuck at HTC quietly brilliant screen)
So, I reboot it and try to enter fastboot ,but not either. I can't get to fastboot. pressing volume down and power
Then, I was unable to turn it off. I disassemble and take the battery out. and charge it for an hour now. But, still no luck can't get to fastboot.
Anyone can help me.
I am so dumb if I have read the instruction, I wouldn't brick.
I don't know what pure doing wrong, but holding down power and volume down will get you to hboot. From there you can go to fastboot and then flash the boot.img.
Not even hboot too. press volume - and power doesn't do anything for me. or do they need more battery?
Then you're doing it wrong or your buttons are broken.
Keep hold of volume even after it reboots. Don't let go until you're in hboot.
When I first installed custom ROM I made the same mistake and didn't flash boot.img separately, causing the device to just hang at HTC screen you described, or being in a constant bootloop. However I was able to get into bootloader and sort things out. I know it's something basic, but are you making sure you hold that volume down + power button long enough?
Oh GOD! I got it! It boot into hboot and I can fastboot now. I think the button are hard to press so, I can't press it correctly the first time. THANKS
So I'm stuck on the HTC logo (with the This build is for development message..) and it looks like I can't do anything about it. I can't get into fastboot with the whole Press volume down + Power button. Buttons are unresponsive.
adb doesn't recognize any device when I attempt to reboot the phone into bootloader with the command 'adb reboot bootloader'
Any solutions?
What I did before this happened: Ran CM 12.1 for a good month then decided to go back to stock rom. I unrooted, flashed stock recovery, and locked the bootloader (did not flash stock rom yet). I decided to try another custom rom so I went to unlock the bootloader again. All seems dandy when it starts to reboot when I unlocked the bootloader, but now it's just stuck on that screen.
Edit: I just got around to reading some guide that tells me I should just wait until the battery dies since it's likely frozen. What a bummer.
BuggerBug said:
So I'm stuck on the HTC logo (with the This build is for development message..) and it looks like I can't do anything about it. I can't get into fastboot with the whole Press volume down + Power button. Buttons are unresponsive.
adb doesn't recognize any device when I attempt to reboot the phone into bootloader with the command 'adb reboot bootloader'
Any solutions?
What I did before this happened: Ran CM 12.1 for a good month then decided to go back to stock rom. I unrooted, flashed stock recovery, and locked the bootloader (did not flash stock rom yet). I decided to try another custom rom so I went to unlock the bootloader again. All seems dandy when it starts to reboot when I unlocked the bootloader, but now it's just stuck on that screen.
Edit: I just got around to reading some guide that tells me I should just wait until the battery dies since it's likely frozen. What a bummer.
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Hold the volume up button and power simultaneously (for 15 seconds) to restart the device while on the HTC logo. If you can get into fastboot mode (Volume down and power button while phone is powered down), make sure you're running the stock recovery and have locked bootloader to run the RUU.
Ok,
Was installing the viper rom on my M8, and for some reason, now my phone is stuck in a boot loop. Obviously the install went pear shaped. But now I cant even boot the phone into recovery mode.
Boot sequence now is: Google lettering appears on screen, followed by green android with the blue spinning shape in its chest, then the green android with the red triangle and black exclamation mark appears and the whole thing loops again.
When plugged into the PC its not recognized so I cant use adb to boot into recovery or try load another rom/wipe cache etc.
I've tried all combinations of power button & volume up/down to break the boot sequence, no joy.
Any ideas how to resolve, or do I have a very expensive paper-weight?
Cheers,
sombaht
Rest assured, if the screen comes on, the phone isn't bricked.
Red triangle with exclamation point is stock recovery.
What was your exact sequence, in detail? From bootloader unlock, install custom recovery, etc.
Was the phone on Lollipop when you unlocked the bootloader?
To reboot into bootloader (not recovery, there is no button sequence to boot directly into recovery on this device):
1) Hold power and vol up for several seconds to force a reboot
2) The moment the screen goes black to reboot, let go of the buttons, and only hold vol down
3) Don't let go of vol down until you are on the bootloader screen
4) Failure to get into bootloader is virtually always user error. You either started pressing vol down too late, or let go of it too early. Just repeat until you get it right.
But from there, as mentioned it sounds like you are on stock recovery. You will probably need to flash TWRP again via fastboot in order to do much more.
Did you flash a custom recovery before you flashed the rom?? Can you boot in the bootloader mode (turn of Device completely- turn on again and hold volume down all the time.. then you should be in the bootloader)?
And your phone is not really bricked
Edit: damn to slow should not write on the phone
sombaht said:
Ok,
Was installing the viper rom on my M8, and for some reason, now my phone is stuck in a boot loop. Obviously the install went pear shaped. But now I cant even boot the phone into recovery mode.
Boot sequence now is: Google lettering appears on screen, followed by green android with the blue spinning shape in its chest, then the green android with the red triangle and black exclamation mark appears and the whole thing loops again.
When plugged into the PC its not recognized so I cant use adb to boot into recovery or try load another rom/wipe cache etc.
I've tried all combinations of power button & volume up/down to break the boot sequence, no joy.
Any ideas how to resolve, or do I have a very expensive paper-weight?
Cheers,
sombaht
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My friend, did you flash it using stock recovery or custom recovery? if you did flash it using stock recovery you will meet this kind of problems. I suggest you try power button and down if im not mistaken and go to hboot and fastboot usb and connect to adb, type fastboot devices in cmd if it detects your device then you can flash TWRP , find any kind of custom rom for M8 and flash it. I also assume your bootloader is unlocked and driver is installed in your PC.
Problem solved. Redpoint73's key press combination worked!
Cheers,
sombaht
Hey guys,
Ok, this is a tough one for you. I'm actually not 100% convinced that my phone isn't hard bricked. But every where I look for, it says, it's only hard bricked if your phone wont turn on at all and that's just not true in my case. So here's the story:
My volume-up button is kind of screwed, I don't know, what happened to it, but one day, it just started being triggered randomly until it just didn't work at all anymore. It wasn't that big of a problem, since I was still able to change the volume by hitting the volume-down button once and changing the volume by the on screen slider. I was running SkyDragon GPE V5.5 for quite a while now.
But now I wanted to upgrade to Android 6.0, so I downloaded the firmware from here. Next I rebooted to bootloader switched to fastboot and used "sudo fastboot oem rebootRUU" and "sudo fastboot flash zip firmware.zip" twice. So far so good, everything went fine and I actually even am able to see the new Google splashscreen.
So now I want to flash this ROM. But, for some reason, the touchscreen doesn't work anymore, even though it's activated in the CWM Philz Touch GUI settings enabled. Alright, so I "wipe to install a new ROM" and navigate to the zip file to install it and it starts the aroma installer, which I can't control since the touchscreen doesn't work. So, I'm kind of frustrated by now, I flash TWRP, because, maybe here, the touchscreen works. I flash it and try to reboot into it. But it doesn't work, it just stays at the Google splashscreen, I can restart by holding down the power button but it will just go back to the Google splashscreen. After a couple of tries I actually get it to turn off, so I hold down power and volume down to get into the bootloader but it just goes back to the splashscreen.
I can't get to the bootloader, I don't have a ROM installed and I can't get into the recovery. Is there anything I can still do or is everything lost?
Which TWRP version ? You need to use 2.8.7.0
You can't get to bootloader because of the timing when pressing power & volume down button.
If you can turn it off, press and hold volume down button then press power button until it vibrates then release the power button.