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Hi, I have searched everywhere on XDA and on google and couldn't find a solution for my problem.
I wanted to root my device using VISIONary+. When I tried to do the permanent root, it rebooted my phone once, and then black screen, reboot a second time and I get stuck on the recovery screen.
I took out the battery, sd-card and sim, tried again, same result.
If I try to do a wipe (both data/factory reset and cache partition), I end up with the same result.
When I try to "Apply sdcard:update.zip", I get -- Invalid operation. -- and then the same result.
What causes this to happen and how can one fix this?
Oh and on the screen it says: "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
Android system recovery <3e>
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Reboot system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
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E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Did the temp root (which you WILL have done first) work ok? Did you remember to tick the required options?
Mr_JMM said:
Did the temp root (which you WILL have done first) work ok? Did you remember to tick the required options?
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Thanks for the quick reply!!!
Yes. The the temp root was fine. When I went to do the permanent root, it asked for root access, I selected "allow access" and then my phone rebooted.
Now I'm stuck with a black screen, a phone and a red triangle (Recovery mode).
Racking my brain as this happened to me but was a while ago now.
There is a way to reboot the phone without pulling the battery, some combination of volume button and power button but failing that if you pull out battery the phone should reboot as usual. If you can get it to there double check the Visionary thread to ensure every step is followed.
Sorry, one question I should have asked is what HTC version are you on? You will probably need to downgrade or use the gold card method if it's 1.82+
Mr_JMM said:
Racking my brain as this happened to me but was a while ago now.
There is a way to reboot the phone without pulling the battery, some combination of volume button and power button but failing that if you pull out battery the phone should reboot as usual. If you can get it to there double check the Visionary thread to ensure every step is followed.
Sorry, one question I should have asked is what HTC version are you on? You will probably need to downgrade or use the gold card method if it's 1.82+
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Thanks man, here is my info:
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.85.0007
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Oct 11 2010, 12:47:02
Even I take the battery out, I still end up back in the recovery mode.
Is this gonna cost me to go to go back to the store and have them fix it for me?
I would love to be able to do it myself.
And yes, I followed every step.
Sorry, it's the software info I need (settings -> About Phone).
I will bet that you're on 1.82+ in which case you will need to create a goldcard (there's a recent thread in the General section on this matter) and downgrade the software first.
That was what I had to do.
Turn the phone off by what ever means then press vol - TOGETHER with the power button (takes you to recovery) then select reboot option there (again, can't remember what the default options are but one should be for rebooting device.
Mr_JMM said:
Sorry, it's the software info I need (settings -> About Phone).
I will bet that you're on 1.82+ in which case you will need to create a goldcard (there's a recent thread in the General section on this matter) and downgrade the software first.
That was what I had to do.
Turn the phone off by what ever means then press vol - TOGETHER with the power button (takes you to recovery) then select reboot option there (again, can't remember what the default options are but one should be for rebooting device.
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All the help forums require me to be inside android and set it to be HTC sync... Doesn't help much if I can't start android in the first place.
I went to the reboot device, and I'm still stuck... How can I get out of it?
Nothing I own has windows on it thus I did manage to sort this out, when I was in same boat, without windows thus without HTC Sync. I just needed a windows machine (work) to create the gold card.
I am almost certain that I could get the phone to reboot after getting to the same stage using the volume buttons and power button from the red triangle screen (sure it was vol+ And power button (press vol+ first). You should then see a new menu.
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Nothing I own has windows on it thus I did manage to sort this out, when I was in same boat, without windows thus without HTC Sync. I just needed a windows machine (work) to create the gold card.
I am almost certain that I could get the phone to reboot after getting to the same stage using the volume buttons and power button from the red triangle screen (sure it was vol+ And power button (press vol+ first). You should then see a new menu.
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I can access the menu. It's vol+ first, and then power button. As I said in the first post, I am presented with 4 menu items. None of them is helping me.
Is there a way to flash from recovery mode, etc? Or do I have to go back to the store and have them fix this for me?
Even I create the gold card, I can't do anything in recovery mode. I need to get out of recovery mode first.
I've googled some more, and I found that you can recover using backup.zip, but I like I said, I get "-- Invalid operation. --".
Sorry, I need to go out for a few hours.
Found this thread and whilst the OP ended up sending phone back there are some useful things in it to try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035027&highlight=Visionary+red+triangle
Let me know how you get on and I'll try and come back to you on my return if no one else has popped by first.
Stay positive, this happened to me and I got it sorted. Just wish I could remember what I did.
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Sorry, I need to go out for a few hours.
Found this thread and whilst the OP ended up sending phone back there are some useful things in it to try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035027&highlight=Visionary+red+triangle
Let me know how you get on and I'll try and come back to you on my return if no one else has popped by first.
Stay positive, this happened to me and I got it sorted. Just wish I could remember what I did.
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Got a little further.. I have to go to fastboot. Then I can do a flash. I will keep you informed. Hopefully this will work.
RichardState said:
Got a little further.. I have to go to fastboot. Then I can do a flash. I will keep you informed. Hopefully this will work.
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by the looks of it u are on 1.72+ official rom.. u cant root that
just to confirm it... go to settings>about phone what is the buid number ?
i will help u in everything.. just give me that info
Leather|Face said:
by the looks of it u are on 1.72+ official rom.. u cant root that
just to confirm it... go to settings>about phone what is the buid number ?
i will help u in everything.. just give me that info
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The current image version is 1.38.421.1
I cannot go into android to be able to go settings>about phone to get the number. I just got it through the HTC Android Phone ROM. Gonna try update quickly to 1.72.405.3
Nope. It didn't work. I get "Error [131]: CUSTOMER ID ERROR"
RichardState said:
The current image version is 1.38.421.1
I cannot go into android to be able to go settings>about phone to get the number. I just got it through the HTC Android Phone ROM. Gonna try update quickly to 1.72.405.3
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why do u wanna update to 1.72 when u want to root ur phone.. i told u in 1.72+ official roms.. u cant ROOT... do want to install custom roms or what ?
Leather|Face said:
why do u wanna update to 1.72 when u want to root ur phone.. i told u in 1.72+ official roms.. u cant ROOT... do want to install custom roms or what ?
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I just wanna get my phone up and running again. How can I do that?
RichardState said:
I just wanna get my phone up and running again. How can I do that?
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hmm.. ok do this thing... take battery out, then back in. press vol down and power button same time.. u will go into bootloader.. from there just do a factory reset,,. use ur vol button to navigate up and down and power putton for selection in the bootloader menu.. ul lose everything on the phone u have installed (sdcard wont be touched)
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hmm.. ok do this thing... take battery out.. press vol down and power button same time.. u will go into bootloader.. from there just do a factory reset,,. use ur vol button to navigate up and down and power putton for selection in the bootloader menu.. ul lose everything on the phone u have installed (sdcard wont be touched)
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Formatting DATA:...
Formatting CACHE:...
Rebooting
It reboots, I see HTC and then black, then I see HTC see again, and I'm back into recovery mode again.
Just encountered something weird... Upon loading the bootloader, I see a quick flash that it complains about images that aren't found or something. Can this be it? How did this happen? I saw it earlier today and just now.
RichardState said:
Formatting DATA:...
Formatting CACHE:...
Rebooting
It reboots, I see HTC and then black, then I see HTC see again, and I'm back into recovery mode again.
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is ur phone locked and branded to ur network provider ?
ok i got my phone bricked since i change some fonts ¬¬ yeah its stupid but its done, my htc stays in HTC ONE X splash screen
1.- i already did wipe cache & dalvik (i dont want to try full restore yet)
2.- i cant access to the SD card to put the ROM.zip into it
any idea on how to bring it to life again?? (without losing data)
ok i did a full reset and now its showing only ANDROID label (splash screen) and thats all u.u still bricked, any idea????
is there any way to flash from PC i mean having ROM on PC i dont have it on my HTC
flash lastest clockworkmod and you can mount USB from recovery, copy rom and install as normal.
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what the latest version i got 5.8.4.0 i think this is the latest but i dont know hot to mount USB :/
Yep that's the latest version. Flash it via fastboot:
Put the recovery.img in your fastboot folder and rename it to "recovery.img", then open a command prompt and:
cd..
cd..
cd fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Now extract the boot.img from the ROM you want to flash on your PC, and copy it to your fastboot folder and:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then boot into recovery and:
Go to mounts and storage
Choose Mount USB Storage
Copy ROM to your phone
Factory reset
Wipe Dalvik cache
Choose Zip from SD Card
Flash Rom
Reboot and enjoy
If this doesn't work, you'll have to boot into flastboot mode and run the RUU for your phone.
Either way, it's not 'BRICKED'.
Just make sure your battery doesn't go below 30% before you fix it or it will be much more difficult to recover (but not impossible).
It's impossible to totally brick an S-ON One X as whatever happens, you can always get into fastboot mode.
Guys i have problem too. I flashed boot.img with kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967897 via this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1962428
Now phone is bricked. It's only showin "htc quietly brilliant"" logo and i can't do anything. Won't go into fastboot, won't reset at all . Only logo..
Please help me. My hands are shaking.... :|||
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ok luckily i can restart it, but only restart. I can't turn it off by holding power button.
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Ok i managed to turn bootloader on. There is some hope!!
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Guys i have problem too. I flashed boot.img with kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967897 via this tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1962428
Now phone is bricked. It's only showin "htc quietly brilliant"" logo and i can't do anything. Won't go into fastboot, won't reset at all . Only logo..
Please help me. My hands are shaking.... :|||
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ok luckily i can restart it, but only restart. I can't turn it off by holding power button.
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Ok i managed to turn bootloader on. There is some hope!![/QUOTE
try this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734365
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Ok guys. I almost had heartattack. By holding vol down buttont and power it went into Bootloader mode. I was able to get into recovery and then used venom flasher to change back to stock kernel. Oh god... Thank you guys trying to help me
Dudes, when its stuck in start up logo doesn't mean its bricked. It's bricked when you can't turn it on or go into bootloader. Please don't use "bricked" to describe every problem you encounter please.
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That is true. What's more I was stupid enough to flash kernel to totally different phone (One XL). Luckily my stupidity was spared this time.
I hope OP will repair his phone too.
Like I said, it's pretty much impossible to 'BRICK' an S-ON device.
What about If you flash a Ron intended for a different phone, doesn't this change the layout of system positions? Or I'm just being stupid and you need s-off to mess things up like that?
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Einstein001 said:
That is true. What's more I was stupid enough to flash kernel to totally different phone (One XL). Luckily my stupidity was spared this time.
I hope OP will repair his phone too.
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thanks i know how to mount UB from now when this happens my htc is alife again and sorry for the title
Sentinel196 said:
Like I said, it's pretty much impossible to 'BRICK' an S-ON device.
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and than everybody cry, cause they have no s-off...Guys, You better say thanks for this one, you don`t know how many devices with s-off was bricked for real...
It still cant overwrite the bootloader, firnd you can always repartition by running the RUU
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eltoffer said:
ok i got my phone bricked since i change some fonts ¬¬ yeah its stupid but its done, my htc stays in HTC ONE X splash screen
1.- i already did wipe cache & dalvik (i dont want to try full restore yet)
2.- i cant access to the SD card to put the ROM.zip into it
any idea on how to bring it to life again?? (without losing data)
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Flash the newest CWM Recovery. Or any recovery with that you can use the option "advanced restore". Now Backup your Rom> wipe everything> restore>advanced restore>restore data only
Here you go
Sry, can one the mods delete this post? My browser is f****** up and didn't show me there are already answers...
I think this qualifies as "bricked"
OK, I am trying to help my sister with her HTC 1X. It will not turn on whatsoever. I hold down the power button, nothing. I hold down the power and one of the volume buttons (up or down), nothing. I hold down the power button and both of the volume buttons, nothing.
I have hooked it up to my laptop because I was able to find some drivers for the device and some files that will allow me to root it, should I be able to get the phone to do anything. Anyway, the only thing I get is a message from Windows saying that the device has malfunctioned and that I should disconnect it and reconnect it or replace the device.
I've scanned through several of the threads but cannot seem to find anyone with as legitimately bricked a 1x as my sister has. I am used to rooting and ROMing Samsung devices and thought I would lend a hand by trying to help out with this HTC device but I cannot get it to even show up in MY Computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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OK, I am trying to help my sister with her HTC 1X. It will not turn on whatsoever. I hold down the power button, nothing. I hold down the power and one of the volume buttons (up or down), nothing. I hold down the power button and both of the volume buttons, nothing.
I have hooked it up to my laptop because I was able to find some drivers for the device and some files that will allow me to root it, should I be able to get the phone to do anything. Anyway, the only thing I get is a message from Windows saying that the device has malfunctioned and that I should disconnect it and reconnect it or replace the device.
I've scanned through several of the threads but cannot seem to find anyone with as legitimately bricked a 1x as my sister has. I am used to rooting and ROMing Samsung devices and thought I would lend a hand by trying to help out with this HTC device but I cannot get it to even show up in MY Computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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sounds like you need to activate the warranty
zuadao said:
sounds like you need to activate the warranty
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Yeah, I was afraid she was going to have to send it back to HTC. What really stinks is that she's only had the phone for 35 days at this point. Started having problems a couple of days ago and ATT doesn't seem to want to do diddly.
Anyway, thanks for the response!
No worries. Pls let us know the outcome. Good luck.
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So I bricked my phone. It just stays on the white htc page and doesn't move. It's the tmobile htc one m8. I just purchased it from someone today and he had the sinless rom on it. How do I unblock this phone and how do I restore it to stock sense 6 for tmobile. Please help ASAP! I have no phone to use!
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So I bricked my phone. It just stays on the white htc page and doesn't move. It's the tmobile htc one m8. I just purchased it from someone today and he had the sinless rom on it. How do I unblock this phone and how do I restore it to stock sense 6 for tmobile. Please help ASAP! I have no phone to use!
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Unplug phone. Power on. Hold vol up and power for exactly 10 sec. Let go of both. Hold vol down and power to enter bootloader. Usually about 3 seconds. Then look for guide on stock backups.
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an0ther said:
Unplug phone. Power on. Hold vol up and power for exactly 10 sec. Let go of both. Hold vol down and power to enter bootloader. Usually about 3 seconds. Then look for guide on stock backups.
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I can't get out of the htc screen. Nothing is working.
rmustafa11 said:
I can't get out of the htc screen. Nothing is working.
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I lied. I didn't brick my phone but it's just stuck on the white htc screen. What do I do and how do I get my phone to work again.
rmustafa11 said:
I lied. I didn't brick my phone but it's just stuck on the white htc screen. What do I do and how do I get my phone to work again.
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Like he said, Press and hold Volume UP + Power Button for exactly 10 seconds and then press and hold Volume DOWN + Power button to enter into bootloader. From there you can either reflash a ROM or go back to stock.
If it's frozen there then you can only press and hold Volume UP + Power button (But not the whole time, just for 10 seconds) it "simulates" a battery pull on the device and will reboot. Make sure device is not connected to PC though.
rmustafa11 said:
I lied. I didn't brick my phone but it's just stuck on the white htc screen. What do I do and how do I get my phone to work again.
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hold the power button down and the volume up button at the same time for like 10 seconds or until the phone starts to reboot. as soon as the screen goes black switch to holding the volume down button.
you should get into recovery like that. if so you can fix yer phone. try it and report back.
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Like he said, Press and hold Volume UP + Power Button for exactly 10 seconds and then press and hold Volume DOWN + Power button to enter into bootloader. From there you can either reflash a ROM or go back to stock.
If it's frozen there then you can only press and hold Volume UP + Power button (But not the whole time, just for 10 seconds) it "simulates" a battery pull on the device and will reboot. Make sure device is not connected to PC though.
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How do I go back to stock? I wiped my whole phone so there is no rom on it I am assuming because it just stays at the white htc screen if I reboot it.
rmustafa11 said:
How do I go back to stock? I wiped my whole phone so there is no rom on it I am assuming because it just stays at the white htc screen if I reboot it.
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Well, which T-Mobile variant do you have? Do you know what the original software version on your device was? It'll make things easier...
Out of curiousity though, how did you wipe your entire phone if you're stuck at the boot screen?
BerndM14 said:
Well, which T-Mobile variant do you have? Do you know what the original software version on your device was? It'll make things easier...
Out of curiousity though, how did you wipe your entire phone if you're stuck at the boot screen?
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I am a noob lol.... I just know it's from tmobile and not google play edition. I believe I have 4.4.2? I wiped everything before I was stuck at the boot loader screen. I just want to be able to use my phone again with it being how it came right out the box. I need like step by step instructions lol
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I am a noob lol.... I just know it's from tmobile and not google play edition. I believe I have 4.4.2? I wiped everything before I was stuck at the boot loader screen. I just want to be able to use my phone again with it being how it came right out the box. I need like step by step instructions lol
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Ok, where are you from then? Did you buy it from T-Mobile somewhere in the USA, T-Mobile Germany... T-Mobile Poland? T-Mobile Planet Jupiter?
Each of them have a different version number for the carrier/region x.xx.531.x , x.xx.111.x x.xx.118.x etc
If we can know that much we can look into finding the right stock version you require.
That aside, did you manage to get the device back into bootloader yet?
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Ok, where are you from then? Did you buy it from T-Mobile somewhere in the USA, T-Mobile Germany... T-Mobile Poland? T-Mobile Planet Jupiter?
Each of them have a different version number for the carrier/region x.xx.531.x , x.xx.111.x x.xx.118.x etc
If we can know that much we can look into finding the right stock version you require.
That aside, did you manage to get the device back into bootloader yet?
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I am in the USA & I am in the boot loader screen I believe. I see options like fast boot, recovery, factory reset, simlock, check smarted, image cry, show barcode. The CID is 11111111? It's unlocked & it says SHIP S-OFF under unlocked.
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I am in the USA & I am in the boot loader screen I believe. I see options like fast boot, recovery, factory reset, simlock, check smarted, image cry, show barcode. The CID is 11111111? It's unlocked & it says SHIP S-OFF under unlocked.
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[Recovery] [RUU] [TWRP Nandroids] [Radio IMGs]
From that thread you can get the stock recovery and stock nandroid backup for T-Mobile US.
It's TWRP backups, I'm assuming you're using TWRP?
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[Recovery] [RUU] [TWRP Nandroids] [Radio IMGs]
From that thread you can get the stock recovery and stock nandroid backup for T-Mobile US.
It's TWRP backups, I'm assuming you're using TWRP?
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There are 2 for each section? Which one do I download? Also how would I put them on my phone and where on my phone? Sorry for these stupid questions. I just have no idea what to do.
Like which one do I download from recovery and which one from android backups and how do I use them.
rmustafa11 said:
There are 2 for each section? Which one do I download? Also how would I put them on my phone and where on my phone? Sorry for these stupid questions. I just have no idea what to do.
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Download the 1.57.531.7 backup and stock recovery.
Sorry, I'll be heading home now, my shift is over...So I can't help yet, I'll be back in like an hour to 1.5hour max. I'll come back to this thread as soon as I get home to give you the rest of instructions etc to help restore device.
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Like which one do I download from recovery and which one from android backups and how do I use them.
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download the t-mobile stock rom backup linked above and put it on a microSD card. then go into recovery from the bootloader screen and then you can flash that from recovery. wipe everything first which is an option in recovery, then flash the stock rom backup and you should be good to go.
i had the same issue except on AT&T so i just found an AT&T stock rom backup to flash.
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download the t-mobile stock rom backup linked above and put it on a microSD card. then go into recovery from the bootloader screen and then you can flash that from recovery. wipe everything first which is an option in recovery, then flash the stock rom backup and you should be good to go.
i had the same issue except on AT&T so i just found an AT&T stock rom backup to flash.
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Wait you both said 2 different things..... Does your option basically put the phone how it was when it came out the box and makes it unrooted?
rmustafa11 said:
Wait you both said 2 different things..... Does your option basically put the phone how it was when it came out the box and makes it unrooted?
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i kept root. you get the option when you flash your phone with the stock rom. the recovery will ask you if you want to root.
that was my experience.
phone's been working great ever since i thought i bricked it.
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i kept root. you get the option when you flash your phone with the stock rom. the recovery will ask you if you want to root.
that was my experience.
phone's been working great ever since i thought i bricked it.
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Okay can you take me through the steps because I cannot find it. I opened recovery from boot loader and the options I see now are install, wipe, backup, restore, mount, settings, advanced, and reebot but I do not see the file anywhere
rmustafa11 said:
Okay can you take me through the steps because I cannot find it. I opened recovery from boot loader and the options I see now are install, wipe, backup, restore, mount, settings, advanced, and reebot but I do not see the file anywhere
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yes that is correct. goto wipe. first wipe everything. then reboot into recovery. then select Restore. you should be able to click on where it says storage and then choose micro SD.
at that point you should see the stock T-Mobile ROM zip file tyou put on your microSD card. pick that, and you are good to go.
Hello
Please some one help me fix HTC wildfire mobile as its not giving me any option
luvlastcall said:
Hello
Please some one help me fix HTC wildfire mobile as its not giving me any option
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Your in the stock recovery pal. Hold down the power and volume keys and you will eventually get some options on the screen. Once they come up use the volume buttons to scroll and power to select. Btw, i suspect you have a htc wildfire S not the htc wildfire. So this would be the wrong forum for you if your phone does not have a trackpad at the bottom of the screen (looks like a circle with a dot in it) then you have the S model.
HTC Wildfire
Thanks for Replying back Its not letting me to run recovery and on the top of it if the phone boots up it take almost 20 minutes to get to the home screen and it hang sup their itself you can't even do anything on it and i am trying to unlock the boot loader to run recovery and install custom rom on it but nothing working out. I do have a trackpad on this mobile and i checked over the internet also and its Model number is A3333. So Please help me what all option that i can use on this mobile right now as i am totally new to Flashing Android Mobiles.
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Your in the stock recovery pal. Hold down the power and volume keys and you will eventually get some options on the screen. Once they come up use the volume buttons to scroll and power to select. Btw, i suspect you have a htc wildfire S not the htc wildfire. So this would be the wrong forum for you if your phone does not have a trackpad at the bottom of the screen (looks like a circle with a dot in it) then you have the S model.
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luvlastcall said:
Thanks for Replying back Its not letting me to run recovery and on the top of it if the phone boots up it take almost 20 minutes to get to the home screen and it hang sup their itself you can't even do anything on it and i am trying to unlock the boot loader to run recovery and install custom rom on it but nothing working out. I do have a trackpad on this mobile and i checked over the internet also and its Model number is A3333. So Please help me what all option that i can use on this mobile right now as i am totally new to Flashing Android Mobiles.
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Okay, pull the battery out. Then put it back in after 5 seconds. Hold down volume down, then power and keep both pressed down until a wite screen with some writing comes up. There it should say hboot, a version number and s-on or s-off. What does yours say?
HTC Widlfire
Well I am sharing the screenshot
heavy_metal_man said:
Okay, pull the battery out. Then put it back in after 5 seconds. Hold down volume down, then power and keep both pressed down until a wite screen with some writing comes up. There it should say hboot, a version number and s-on or s-off. What does yours say?
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Well I am sharing the screenshot
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Ah ha! Fantastic whoever else had this phone before you has done most of the hard work and security unlocked the bootloader already. http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.c...zip?key=kzoSRLwAaSgJsyXiuKJS4A&ts=1431506306 download this and place it onto your sdcard. Reboot into hboot and your hboot should request you to update the recovery. Select yes with volume up. After this you should reboot back into hboot without the sdcard in. Then select recovery from hboot and boot into it.
Once your in recovery you could either:
1. Wipe the data, cache and dalvik cache and then reboot the phone. This will reset the phone and hopefully fix and voot related issues.
2. Wipe the phone entirely and install a new rom. Cyanogenmod 7 is a good lightweight rom. Please look at the development section for all the roms available.
Just one question though, that screen damage looks like bad. Do you know what happened?
Hello Bro
Link that you have shared is not working so please share some other link and please help me to get the best rom for this mobile and please provide me step to step instruction to do it.
Ok
Already Tried
Well Bro tried that and its now working no option i am getting in recovery and just a phone logo with red mark that what i shared in first screenshot in this thread
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Hello Bro
Link that you have shared is not working so please share some other link and please help me to get the best rom for this mobile and please provide me step to step instruction to do it.
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?398dklf1uzss5f6 Updated link.
As I have said I recommend Cyanogenmod 7. Read the thread here Its a custom version but its more recent.
Now your screen, I suspect that those marks are from heat damage. Most likely from whoever else had the phone overclocking it. This could be a telltale sign of hardware damage through excessive use and it may never boot properly. I thought I should mention that.
Well i thats case would like to ask one more thing we will be able to fix it or not or its not worth it.
luvlastcall said:
Well If that's case would like to ask one more thing we will be able to fix it or not or its not worth it.
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Depends, this phone is an old model as far as mobile phones are concerned. the cost of a motherboard and new lcd + digitizer could be the same cost as the phone in a used condition.
I work it out as £23.13 as the cheapest you could get the parts but then you would need to do a full tear down of the device in order to replace most of it. I mean basically your only keeping the frame, trackball, camera and some rubber bits.
Cheapest I can find to buy it in the uk is £25 ( with you needing to sim unlock it).
But I would add that you might as well try get cm7 on the device. The only thing it will cost you is time and you never know, the phone might be usable with CM7 on it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
OK bro let me first give a try with the cm7 rom and see if its work and hoping for the best
luvlastcall said:
OK bro let me first give a try with the cm7 rom and see if its work and hoping for the best
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Good luck pal, keep me posted
Sure Bro and thanks a lot
Well Not sure what happened to screen as my brother was using and i tired to run the recovery and not able to go further only getting this screen while wiping all the data through recovery/Users/Hacker/Downloads/IMG_0170.JPG
Well Not sure what happened to screen as my brother was using and i tired to run the recovery and not able to go further only getting this screen while wiping all the data through recovery and stuck on this screen now
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Well Not sure what happened to screen as my brother was using and i tired to run the recovery and not able to go further only getting this screen while wiping all the data through recovery and stuck on this screen now
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Sorry, i forgot to mention, the controls for the recovery are different from hboot. Push trackball to select items, power is now the back button.
let me give a try and see if its work i installed the rom from Sd card ad restarted the mobile and hoping this will work now
I tried to install stock rom that i have downloaded from HTC Website and that is not getting installed lets hope CM7 will work i can see the ultrabeam revolutionary Logo on the screen right now its still thinking up
Hi guys,
i need to send my M8 to service and I needed to turn back it to stock. I had stock fw, twrp, supercid and s-off.
Following several guide here I have done all the steps but something went wrong during the final deleting of supersu app from inside the app with full unrooting menu.
Once rebooted the boot say " status: modified" ( but it was status: official ) and supersu app is still there!!!
What can I do now to return to status official and delete supersu FOREVER???
I have flashed stock rom, stock recovery, set european cid, unroot, back to s-on and finally lock and it was official.
Thank you
Ciao
Well, I'm going to reunlock, reroot and re-s-off once again with sunshine.
Then I think to manually delete the supersu.apk from system folder then, once again, stock recovery, relock and at last s-on then factory reset.
is there something that i am missing or can you tell me the exact order of the operations to turn back to stock and finally get "official"?
Thank you
Have a nice day
Fausto
fcasini said:
Well, I'm going to reunlock, reroot and re-s-off once again with sunshine.
Then I think to manually delete the supersu.apk from system folder then, once again, stock recovery, relock and at last s-on then factory reset.
is there something that i am missing or can you tell me the exact order of the operations to turn back to stock and finally get "official"?
Thank you
Have a nice day
Fausto
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62126243&postcount=2
Do you have an RUU?
if yes, the general way is:
1- remove TAMPERED
2- set LOCKED
3- run full RUU
4- bootup make sure all is OK
5- set S-ON if absolutely necessary (S-ON should be the last thing you do, do NOT go S-ON unless you are sure everything is OK)
also, as a side note, scotty's commands can be run while in TWRP (custom recovery will give you a "rooted" adb shell), on the M8 you can even "fastboot boot <name of recovery>.img" (which boots the custom recovery without flashing it)... provided bootloader is unlocked of course.
(on the M7 this was only possible on hboot 1.44, and on the M9 it's not possible at all)
EDIT: also setting S-ON (fastboot oem writesecureflag 3), has nothing to do with locked/relocked/unlocked bootloader
Thank you dear Nkk71,
Last time I went back to stock I did everything right and software was official and bootloader locked. Unluckly supersu was still there and once unrooted it sayed "software modified"...
Now I have to start againg from the beginning...
yes, I have the Ruu and his recovery but do I have to run the Ruu again?
And in which step I can delete the supersu app and apk?
Thanks again, I will keep you informed.
Ciao
fcasini said:
Thank you dear Nkk71,
Last time I went back to stock I did everything right and software was official and bootloader locked. Unluckly supersu was still there and once unrooted it sayed "software modified"...
Now I have to start againg from the beginning...
yes, I have the Ruu and his recovery but do I have to run the Ruu again?
And in which step I can delete the supersu app and apk?
Thanks again, I will keep you informed.
Ciao
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with RUU it's very easy:
remove TAMPERED and set LOCKED (you can either do that within TWRP or a rooted ROM); TWRP basically has an adb shell with root
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run full RUU (this gets rid of everything, it gets rid of twrp, supersu, custom rom, etc, and will wipe your phone), that's what RUUs do
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bootup, just to make sure all is OK
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set S-ON if absolutely necessary (S-ON should be the last thing you do, do NOT go S-ON unless you are sure everything is OK)
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Nkk71 thank you once again, your help is very appreciated. Tomorrow I'll give it a try, I hope that this time everithing will go fine.
The problem I experienced was that once s-on at the end of the process and rebooted I have found supersu again in the menu and after a "full unrooting" software status was "modified".
Have a nice sunday nkk71.
Ciao
fcasini said:
Nkk71 thank you once again, your help is very appreciated. Tomorrow I'll give it a try, I hope that this time everithing will go fine.
The problem I experienced was that once s-on at the end of the process and rebooted I have found supersu again in the menu and after a "full unrooting" software status was "modified".
Have a nice sunday nkk71.
Ciao
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you too, enjoy the rest of the evening.
follow the 4 steps above and you'll be done in about 15 minutes
hi nkk71, something has gone wrong.
I started with Hasoon toolkit unlocking again and ok. Flashed Twrp and OK. But after flashing the supersu zip the phone went off and now the screen is blank and it don't goes on. Even pressing vol- and pwr nothing happen.
Pressing vol+ and pwr the phone vibrates, the screen show the Htc logo for some seconds but it turn back to off again.
I think that my phone has gone...
any idea?
thanks you
ciao
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fcasini said:
hi nkk71, something has gone wrong.
I started with Hasoon toolkit unlocking again and ok. Flashed Twrp and OK. But after flashing the supersu zip the phone went off and now the screen is blank and it don't goes on. Even pressing vol- and pwr nothing happen.
Pressing vol+ and pwr the phone vibrates, the screen show the Htc logo for some seconds but it turn back to off again.
I think that my phone has gone...
any idea?
thanks you
ciao
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i personally dont like toolkits, those "one-click-does-it-all" tools are a bad idea, in my humble opinion, so many things can go wrong... no offense intended to the dev
try force rebooting, i believe on the M8 it's POWER+VOLUP (or POWER + VOLDOWN + VOLUP), when it reboots, let go of POWER and VOLUP, but keep holding VOLDOWN to get to bootloader
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i personally dont like toolkits, those "one-click-does-it-all" tools are a bad idea, in my humble opinion, so many things can go wrong... no offense intended to the dev
try force rebooting, i believe on the M8 it's POWER+VOLUP (or POWER + VOLDOWN + VOLUP), when it reboots, let go of POWER and VOLUP, but keep holding VOLDOWN to get to bootloader
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thanks nkk71,
I tried several time to force rebooting but without luck. Pwr+VolDown+VolUp show the Htc Logo but nothing happen. The strange thing is that even after more than one hour the phone is still hot!!! It seems like to be on but there is no way to "wake" it...
I think that I "had" an Htc One M8.... (
ciao ciao
fcasini said:
thanks nkk71,
I tried several time to force rebooting but without luck. Pwr+VolDown+VolUp show the Htc Logo but nothing happen. The strange thing is that even after more than one hour the phone is still hot!!! It seems like to be on but there is no way to "wake" it...
I think that I "had" an Htc One M8.... (
ciao ciao
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sounds weird, if you can see the logo, then you should be able to get to bootloader at least
well
you could keep trying until you get to bootloader
check Windows Device Manager, what shows
you were sending it to repair anyway, so guess you can do that now
fcasini said:
thanks nkk71,
I tried several time to force rebooting but without luck. Pwr+VolDown+VolUp show the Htc Logo but nothing happen. The strange thing is that even after more than one hour the phone is still hot!!! It seems like to be on but there is no way to "wake" it...
I think that I "had" an Htc One M8.... (
ciao ciao
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Try again. Hold down power + vol up to force a reboot (it can take up to 20 seconds). AS SOON AS THE SCREEN GOES BLACK slide your finger from vol up to vol down and hold it till it boots. That should take you to bootloader.
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Try again. Hold down power + vol up to force a reboot (it can take up to 20 seconds). AS SOON AS THE SCREEN GOES BLACK slide your finger from vol up to vol down and hold it till it boots. That should take you to bootloader.
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GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!!!
XUNHOLYX and NKK71 you are both great!.
the secret is in the timing. As xunholy says, you have to slide from VolUp to VolDown when screen goes off, then keeping it pressed, the phone will enter in recovery!!! You have to "carpe diem" as a big actor used to say.
Being at home, with a little less light than in the office, I have seen that the phone was not off but was on and the screen quite dark, now I understand whi it was so hot.
Ok, now I am can enter in Twrp recovery but It still doesn't start at all.
I did a factory reset and wipe but nothing change.
Should I try to reflash the stock rom via Fastboot?
What do you suggest?
thank you again so much, I was just selling the phone as spare...
ciao
fcasini said:
GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!!!
XUNHOLYX and NKK71 you are both great!.
the secret is in the timing. As xunholy says, you have to slide from VolUp to VolDown when screen goes off, then keeping it pressed, the phone will enter in recovery!!! You have to "carpe diem" as a big actor used to say.
Being at home, with a little less light than in the office, I have seen that the phone was not off but was on and the screen quite dark, now I understand whi it was so hot.
Ok, now I am can enter in Twrp recovery but It still doesn't start at all.
I did a factory reset and wipe but nothing change.
Should I try to reflash the stock rom via Fastboot?
What do you suggest?
thank you again so much, I was just selling the phone as spare...
ciao
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run the full RUU, you can deal with the rest later
EDIT: but select reboot to bootloader if you are in twrp
nkk71 said:
run the full RUU, you can deal with the rest later
EDIT: but select reboot to bootloader if you are in twrp
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this seems to be the neverending sories...
I have flashed the RUU and the twrp but it still doesn't work...
The only way to enter the bootloader mode is still the "carpe diem" above, then select recovery, the screen goes blank and keeping pressed pwr after a couple of seconds the twrp recovery menu appears.
pressing reboot menu the phone shown the htc logo and the screen become again blank (or dark grey).
If I try to reflash the stock rom I get the error FAILED (remote: not allowed).
Tomorrow I will try to flash from sd. Thank you for the help. I hope to be more lucku tomorrow
ciao
fcasini said:
this seems to be the neverending sories...
I have flashed the RUU and the twrp but it still doesn't work...
The only way to enter the bootloader mode is still the "carpe diem" above, then select recovery, the screen goes blank and keeping pressed pwr after a couple of seconds the twrp recovery menu appears.
pressing reboot menu the phone shown the htc logo and the screen become again blank (or dark grey).
If I try to reflash the stock rom I get the error FAILED (remote: not allowed).
Tomorrow I will try to flash from sd. Thank you for the help. I hope to be more lucku tomorrow
ciao
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I really don't know what i is happen...
Now I'm Unlocked and when I try to flash the RUU file I get this error.
And the combination of pwr+VolDown don't open the fastboot menu...
It is really frustrating...
Also, I don't know why, even if I have flashed more than one time the stock recovery, I still have the TWRP!!!
I feel like I'm loosing this war...
ciao
Edit: the picture errore.jpg is what I get today when trying to flash the RUU... if can help to solve...
fcasini said:
I really don't know what i is happen...
Now I'm Unlocked and when I try to flash the RUU file I get this error.
And the combination of pwr+VolDown don't open the fastboot menu...
It is really frustrating...
Also, I don't know why, even if I have flashed more than one time the stock recovery, I still have the TWRP!!!
I feel like I'm loosing this war...
ciao
Edit: the picture errore.jpg is what I get today when trying to flash the RUU... if can help to solve...
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You went S-ON :crying: :crying:
get S-OFF again, then follow the instructions I posted earlier:
as mentioned before: with RUU it's very easy:
remove TAMPERED and set LOCKED (you can either do that within TWRP or a rooted ROM); TWRP basically has an adb shell with root,
..you can do this in one of three methods (at least):
Flash TWRP ("fastboot flash recovery <name of twrp>.img"), use adb shell while booted in TWRP
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Boot TWRP ("fastboot boot <name of twrp>.img"), use adb shell while booted in TWRP
.
Using a rooted ROM... In my opinion, options 1 or 2 should be the easiest
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run full RUU (this gets rid of everything, it gets rid of twrp, supersu, custom rom, etc, and will wipe your phone), that's what RUUs do
.
bootup, just to make sure all is OK
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set S-ON if absolutely necessary (S-ON should be the last thing you do, do NOT go S-ON unless you are sure everything is OK)
.
nkk71 said:
You went S-ON :crying: :crying:
get S-OFF again, then follow the instructions I posted earlier:
as mentioned before: with RUU it's very easy:
remove TAMPERED and set LOCKED (you can either do that within TWRP or a rooted ROM); TWRP basically has an adb shell with root,
..you can do this in one of three methods (at least):
Flash TWRP ("fastboot flash recovery <name of twrp>.img"), use adb shell while booted in TWRP
.
Boot TWRP ("fastboot boot <name of twrp>.img"), use adb shell while booted in TWRP
.
Using a rooted ROM... In my opinion, options 1 or 2 should be the easiest
.
.
run full RUU (this gets rid of everything, it gets rid of twrp, supersu, custom rom, etc, and will wipe your phone), that's what RUUs do
.
bootup, just to make sure all is OK
.
set S-ON if absolutely necessary (S-ON should be the last thing you do, do NOT go S-ON unless you are sure everything is OK)
.
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hi nkk71, I'm very happy to read you
I have used sunshine to gain s-off. Is it possible to use it even if the phone doesn't start?
The phone goes in recovery mode only.
I will try to reflash the twrp and then relock the boot but I have already done that (or I remember to have done...)
For the moment I have a Nexus 5, but I miss my M8 (
ciao
fcasini said:
hi nkk71, I'm very happy to read you
I have used sunshine to gain s-off. Is it possible to use it even if the phone doesn't start?
The phone goes in recovery mode only.
I will try to reflash the twrp and then relock the boot but I have already done that (or I remember to have done...)
For the moment I have a Nexus 5, but I miss my M8 (
ciao
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no sunshine needs a working ROM, and if it's Android 5.x then it also has to be rooted
judging by the date (Jan 15 2015,22:51:08) of your bootloader (since version-main is missing), you should be on 4.16.401.10
try this ruu: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934518148
if normal fastboot cant flash, I recommend you use "htc_fastboot.exe"
and stop rushing things, you're just making your situation worse, this could have been done in 15 minutes not 2 days, and counting
Easiest way for me has always been to simply put the RUU on the sd card and let the bootloader do the rest. No messing with cables and pc's.