I had converted my AT&T M8 to a GPE edition a since June. Today as I was checking the MID and CID to see if there were any difference between an original GPE and mine. I tried getting to stock recovery just out of curiosity. When I went to bootloader mode I selected recovery and pushed the power button. I only got an android with a red triangle.
After a while I pressed the power button and the device just rebooted.
My question is. Is this normal and everything must be made using fastboot or is there something wrong? I can say that the device has the bootloader unlocked, unrooted and when I converted I installed the 4.4.3 RUU. Following this I received the 4.4.4 OTA without any problems. Thanks.
Red triangle is stock recovery. Hold vol up and press power for the recovery options menu. Or some folks say vol up and down (then press power button). I can't actually say for sure, since I've was on stock for less than a day, and have used stock recovery exactly zero times!
Just tried it. It's vol up and down then click power button once. Thanks.
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Anyone had any issues accessing their recovery since installing Lollipop.
The sequence changes to get into it is all.
From powered off hold power and volume down.
Select RECOVERY and the phone boots into recovery and shows the "dead" Android.
Press power and then volume up. (Its reversed from previously pressing volume up then power)
A rom has nothing to do with the recovery. If you flashed a ruu that includes the stock HTC recovery you may want to flash back the custom one. This is a guess because your info is kinda thin to work with.
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A rom has nothing to do with the recovery. If you flashed a ruu that includes the stock HTC recovery you may want to flash back the custom one. This is a guess because your info is kinda thin to work with.
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I think the OP just means the stock one. I couldn't access it when powered down and USB connected, I had to remove USB, and then power, vol down.
Thanks sorted. Didn't realise it was reversed.
Hello,
I installed a custom ROM (ViperOneM8+4.6.1) on my M8, which is the international edition M8QL_UL.
I now suspect this ROM is not compatible, as the phone is stuck in a reboot loop - the white screen with the red text at the bottom appears, and then about 35 seconds later the screen goes blank and it restarts.
I've tried holding the power button down to try and turn it off, but it won't stop restarting.
I've tried holding the volume down + power buttons to enter recovery and it doesn't work.
Adb and fastboot don't work either - the phone isn't on long enough to appear on my PC.
Please let me know if there's anything I can do at this point?
Cheers.
jmh55 said:
Hello,
I installed a custom ROM (ViperOneM8+4.6.1) on my M8,
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Your device is not a M8 but a different device called M8s ....
Read this thread and get help there if you need to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/make-custom-recovery-htc-one-m8s-t3114245
ckpv5 said:
Your device is not a M8 but a different device called M8s ....
Read this thread and get help there if you need to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/make-custom-recovery-htc-one-m8s-t3114245
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Oh dear, I think this is the issue. The ROM I used was for the M8, not the M8s.
Thanks, I'll try posting in that thread.
jmh55 said:
I've tried holding the volume down + power buttons to enter recovery and it doesn't work.
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There is no button combo that boots into recovery for this device. I believe you mean the button combo to enter bootloader. Folks will often call this recovery, but bootloader and recovery are 2 completely different things (and this is an important distinction), and folks need to stop thinking they are the same.
Since the phone is bootlooping, just hold the vol down button during the next "loop" and you will enter bootloader.
Once in bootloader, then you can select to boot into custom recovery. Then restore your stock nandroid, if you made one before flashing the custom ROM (and you should always make a nandroid of the stock ROM before flashing a custom ROM).
If you didn't make a stock nandroid, you'll need to use RUU or find a stock nandroid that matches your firmware number.
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Adb and fastboot don't work either - the phone isn't on long enough to appear on my PC.
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Fastboot only works in bootloader-fastboot mode; adb only works in OS or recovery. So neither is ever going to work while in a bootloop. Get into bootloader as I've described above (and select fastboot); and you should at least be able to use fastboot.
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There is no button combo that boots into recovery for this device. I believe you mean the button combo to enter bootloader. Folks will often call this recovery, but bootloader and recovery are 2 completely different things (and this is an important distinction), and folks need to stop thinking they are the same.
Since the phone is bootlooping, just hold the vol down button during the next "loop" and you will enter bootloader.
Once in bootloader, then you can select to boot into custom recovery. Then restore your stock nandroid, if you made one before flashing the custom ROM (and you should always make a nandroid of the stock ROM before flashing a custom ROM).
If you didn't make a stock nandroid, you'll need to use RUU or find a stock nandroid that matches your firmware number.
Fastboot only works in bootloader-fastboot mode; adb only works in OS or recovery. So neither is ever going to work while in a bootloop. Get into bootloader as I've described above (and select fastboot); and you should at least be able to use fastboot.
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Thanks for the suggestions and advice - I've got the Pandora Rom back on it now and won't be fiddling anymore I think.
I actually managed to get it sorted by holding vol-up and power for a good 15 seconds based on advice from the M8s thread, just in case any one has the same problem and vol-down doesn't solve it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63177320&postcount=658
Thanks again everyone, I'm been amazed by how helpful people on this forum are.
jmh55 said:
I actually managed to get it sorted by holding vol-up and power for a good 15 seconds based on advice from the M8s thread, just in case any one has the same problem and vol-down doesn't solve it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63177320&postcount=658
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Power+vol up reboots the phone. You stated the phone was already in a bootloop, which means it was already rebooting over and over.
Vol down (just vol down, no need to hold power button) during any reboot will put you into bootloader. If it doesn't, its because you didn't hold vol down long enough.
Hi. I have one M8 with mm stock rom and stock recovery. I can't enter to the recovery. When I select recovery in bootloader mod go to red triangle on my phone screen then I press and hold volume up and then press power once nothing happens and after several seconds my phone be reboot and power on normally. Please help me.
Have you try holding volume down then press power once ? I remember that's how it is on Marshmallow but can't remember whether that's on GPE or Sense.
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Have you try holding volume down then press power once ? I remember that's how it is on Marshmallow but can't remember whether that's on GPE or Sense.
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My phone is sense version. Htc customer service told me volume up holding + press powe once. but I try volume down +power as you told me. but nothing happens again... Unfortunately
Arsinn said:
My phone is sense version. Htc customer service told me volume up holding + press powe once. but I try volume down +power as you told me. but nothing happens again... Unfortunately
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ahh.. ok .. unable to help then because when I was on stock recovery, when I selected reboot to recovery it went straight to recovery .. only on KitKat if I am not wrong that I need to press volume up and power once.
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ahh.. ok .. unable to help then because when I was on stock recovery, when I selected reboot to recovery it went straight to recovery .. only on KitKat if I am not wrong that I need to press volume up and power once.
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Yes mine worked on kitkat but now on mm volume up and power only lead to rebooting. If I flash stock recovery again is there good?
Is this phone fully stock, or was it modified at one point (unlocked bootloader, root, custom recovery, etc.) then returned to stock ROM and stock recovery?
Hello All,
my phone was bootloader unlocked, rooted, installed with custom ROM and custom recovery.
Selling it to my friend, I did a phone reset in the phone setting menu.
Seems like I have done the wrong way? should have done in the custom recovery menu (TWRP)?
Now seems like I can not boot up to recovery mode anymore, by pressing power & volume down button, it always boot up straight to normal state.
Questions:
Have I lost the custom recovery?
How do I re-install? go thru ADB mode?
Thanks!
That button combo reboots to bootloader, not recovery (which doesn't have a button combo to boot directly to). Its a subtle difference (recovery vs. bootloader), but important. Its nearly impossible for the phone to not be able to boot into bootloader (if the bootloader was damaged, you wouldn't even have the screen coming on). If that is what you are experiencing (can't get into bootloader), you are probably just doing the button combo incorrectly: Hold vol up and power buttons until the phone reboots. When the screen goes black, but before the white HTC logo screen appears, let go of those buttons, and only hold vol down. Don't let go of vol down until you see the bootloader screen. If the phone boots normally, you likely just got the timing wrong, either started pressing vol down too late, or let go of it too early. Just repeat until you get into bootloader.
Alternately, within OS (and debugging enabled) you can do:
adb reboot-bootloader
or
adb reboot recovery
Now, if you get into bootloader, select recovery, and TWRP still doesn't boot. Then yes I'd recommend fastboot erase cache, and re-install TWRP by fastboot.
Pardon me,
I used the wrong term, I mean boot to bootloader.
I also pressed the wrong buttons, vol down and power instead of vol UP and power.
Many thanks for your advise.
I just got the latest OTA from HTC. My phone is unlocked with stock image, unrooted and never tampered with. Its been on the Android is upgrading... screen for around 2 hours. Its already gone through and done the app optimisation and rebooted after that into this situation. I'm not really sure what to from here. Do I just leave it running overnight? The phone is running quite hot with the screen permanently on. It hasn't frozen fully, the spinning circle/line is still going. Holding down the buttons does nothing. Its like I'll have to let the battery run down...anyone have any advice
That's not a good sign ...
Don't leave it like that ... press & hold both power & vol up button until it turns black, remove both buttons and quickly press & hold vol down button only.
This will get you to hboot.
Understand that the device is bootloader unlocked but what o you mean by unrooted ?
Was it rooted before and you unrooted it using the unroot function in SuperSU app ?
Note - OTA need a clean non-rooted system image to proceed successfully. If it was rooted and unrooted, some binary already changed then it get stuck while booting.
Post fastboot getvar all result without serial & imei no, if it is not hardware problem then most probably that can be fixed with RUU or non-rooted nandroid backup or signed firmware.
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That's not a good sign ...
Don't leave it like that ... press & hold both power & vol up button until it turns black, remove both buttons and quickly press & hold vol down button only.
This will get you to hboot.
Understand that the device is bootloader unlocked but what o you mean by unrooted ?
Was it rooted before and you unrooted it using the unroot function in SuperSU app ?
Note - OTA need a clean non-rooted system image to proceed successfully. If it was rooted and unrooted, some binary already changed then it get stuck while booting.
Post fastboot getvar all result without serial & imei no, if it is not hardware problem then most probably that can be fixed with RUU or non-rooted nandroid backup or signed firmware.
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Thanks I'll give that a crack. Unrooted as in I've never tried to root it or anything like that. The phone is just how it came stock retail
Actually just as I went to hit power then it rebooted and finished updating....far out that took a long time. Your phone been upgraded to version 6.24.710.1. Was probably close to 3 hours for the update to finish.
I see ... you have an Australia region device. (that's why you have .au in your username )
It seems that's another update from the last 6.12.710.4. I need to get this for my backup collection later.