Help wiping m9 with non functioning display. - One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi,
I have a m9 with a non working screen that needs to go back under warranty. The device comes up but I can't see any thing and touch doesn't work. I need to wipe the phone, but can't see anything. I used MHL and can see the screen once its up but can't do anything on the screen. I can boot into recovery, but can't see anything. The only option I've come up with is to use fast boot to wipe the device, but have to go s-off to do it. HTC says it will void my warranty if I do, which is ridiculous... as if me going s-off after my phone broke has anything to do with my warranty claim...
Does anybody have any ideas of how to wipe my phone that doesn't void warranty? Maybe someone can give me the steps to factory reset through recovery blind, please? I found some videos, but didn't have much luck.
Thanks for any help,

You can't use fastboot erase userdata? I think that's the right command. I didn't think you needed s-off for that though.
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grim489 said:
You can't use fastboot erase userdata? I think that's the right command. I didn't think you needed s-off for that though.
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Thanks for the reply. The fastboot -w fails when trying to erase userdata saying it cant with s-on :crying:
I've tried guessing my sat through recovery without much luck.

Did you try it without the w? Idk if that works at all, I know I've used it on nexus before. Not sure with htc.
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Just fastboot erase userdata
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[DEVS I NEED YOUR HELP] Help me Completly Distroy My Phone

okay heres the deal my phone has been acting up alot... and the other day i swapped batteries and at that my phone refused to do anything past the htc splash screen, ive even ran every ruu file that i could find and to no avail so i am now having to send the phone in for repair, Problem is i have the s-off bootloader from revolutionary and i cant load into the rom to change my mainver and downgrade so
My Question is "is there anything i can do using fastboot commands to either downgrade the bootloader or make the phone a complete brick so that i can get the warranty repair done?"
You can do an OEM boot loader re-lock.
Android, the open source do whatever you want OS.
EVoorhees said:
You can do an OEM boot loader re-lock.
Android, the open source do whatever you want OS.
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Not with s-off
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RevolutionaryPC said:
okay heres the deal my phone has been acting up alot... and the other day i swapped batteries and at that my phone refused to do anything past the htc splash screen, ive even ran every ruu file that i could find and to no avail so i am now having to send the phone in for repair, Problem is i have the s-off bootloader from revolutionary and i cant load into the rom to change my mainver and downgrade so
My Question is "is there anything i can do using fastboot commands to either downgrade the bootloader or make the phone a complete brick so that i can get the warranty repair done?"
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Well, bricking it would be easy, flash a radio and pull the cord in the middle of it, or just smash it . Check out the return to s-on guide, that might work for you.
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Ah. Thanks for correcting me. I was speeding through the thread.
Android, the open source do whatever you want OS.
prototype7 said:
Not with s-off
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Well, bricking it would be easy, flash a radio and pull the cord in the middle of it, or just smash it . Check out the return to s-on guide, that might work for you.
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Guide would work except i cant get into the OS to begin with since the phone sticks at the White HTC Boot Screen wheather i boot into Normal, Safe Mode, Recovery or Factory Reset...
Flash an RUU?
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prototype7 said:
Flash an RUU?
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Tried, and no Dice...well is there a way to short the phone using the 4 contacts by the battery so that it looks like a defective MB or Something of that nature... or atleast corrupt the bootloader so that it dont power on and say Revolutionary
Shotgun.
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To be honest they won't look. I sent mine in and it was s off by revolutionary and they did nothing
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[Q] Half-broken Device - How to adb German stock ROM

Hey Guys,
I know there are many Threads online here but I cant find the information I need.
I've got an HTC Desire Z, bought in Germany without Branding. I need to ship it for warrenty, because it's not booting anymore: HTC Logo then 7 times vibration and off.
If I plug the powercord: Orange LED on ... 7 times vibration and off.
I cant checksum the parition and I cant restore factory, both crash with freeze.
There is cyanogen mod on it and I'm able to boot it on boot menu:
Code:
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC1011000)
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.08.04.30_M3
eMMC-boot
Sep 8 2010,15:56:38
If I plug USB its saying FASTBOOT USB.
So I should be able to use adb to push an image.
So ... my question is how do I push the image and which image should I push?
Best Regards,
Ruben
If they will fix it for free just brick the whole damn thing so it won't turn on, make sure a non booting phone is covered first!
Open a shell and
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
sync
reboot
Now your phone won't even boot
If you want though you can just flash stock recovery via fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recover.img
If you can't find the stock recovery image and you want to do this let me know and ill dig one up
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Thanks for your hint.
I cant find the Stock image for my german one, every Link goes to this Page:
htt p://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Vision
But there is only an exe installer for European ones.
And I need to flash the radioimage again to stock, there is a different version on it...
demkantor said:
If they will fix it for free just brick the whole damn thing so it won't turn on, make sure a non booting phone is covered first!
Open a shell and
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
sync
reboot
Now your phone won't even boot
If you want though you can just flash stock recovery via fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recover.img
If you can't find the stock recovery image and you want to do this let me know and ill dig one up
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Not willing to completley brick it huh
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demkantor said:
Not willing to completley brick it huh
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Well ... it might be a Problem on ship for warrenty if the Filesystem is completly empty, isn't it?
Not really, if you say hey it slowly stopped turning on and then one day nothing then what do they say, there is no proof of failure. Many people seem to do this when they need a warranty and can't get back tgo stock.
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demkantor said:
Not really, if you say hey it slowly stopped turning on and then one day nothing then what do they say, there is no proof of failure. Many people seem to do this when they need a warranty and can't get back tgo stock.
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Allright, but it this also overwriting the radio image? or are they checking this?
They couldn't, phone won't boot.
But if you would rather I don't have you stock image but I'm sure nipqer does, look for his thread on returning to stock with a broken digitizer, he has put to gether a bunch of stock roms for the g2/dz and has them mirrored in his server, be sure to thanks him!
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demkantor said:
If they will fix it for free just brick the whole damn thing so it won't turn on, make sure a non booting phone is covered first!
Open a shell and
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
sync
reboot
Now your phone won't even boot
If you want though you can just flash stock recovery via fastboot
fastboot flash recovery recover.img
If you can't find the stock recovery image and you want to do this let me know and ill dig one up
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I just tried to follow your instructions, but how do I open a commandline via fastboot?
You don't, no adb in bootloader mode, just fastboot
Do it in recovery
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demkantor said:
You don't, no adb in bootloader mode, just fastboot
Do it in recovery
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sorry, but still not getting it :/
Which commands do I need now exactly for fastboot?
There is now adb access in bootloader, not even in fastboot mode, hence nothing to type in there (as to brick phone)
You will need to boot into recovery or have a working operating system to use adb, that's similar to fastboot.
You don't have an os so you need to boot to recovery and open cmd, then type the command I posted earlier
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demkantor said:
There is now adb access in bootloader, not even in fastboot mode, hence nothing to type in there (as to brick phone)
You will need to boot into recovery or have a working operating system to use adb, that's similar to fastboot.
You don't have an os so you need to boot to recovery and open cmd, then type the command I posted earlier
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Allright, how do I boot to recovery?
When in bootloader mode choose recovery
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demkantor said:
When in bootloader mode choose recovery
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This lead to a crash... =(
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qz8id18my196ru8/VID_20121230_034021.m4v
Yeah you are showing all the signs of a fried emmc, so you couldn't return to stock even if you wanted to as your chip has lost read/write cappabilities.
To completley brick try and flash either an incompatable hboot or radio or do a battery pull during the flash, may need to do it a few times to work
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Just for other Guys which might find this, I found the original rom on my harddisk:
http://ompldr.org/vZ3hvaw/htc desire z original rom backup.7z
demkantor said:
Yeah you are showing all the signs of a fried emmc, so you couldn't return to stock even if you wanted to as your chip has lost read/write cappabilities.
To completley brick try and flash either an incompatable hboot or radio or do a battery pull during the flash, may need to do it a few times to work
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I'll try this, thanks!

CM11 Stuck in HTC Boot image

Hi guys, I had My HTC one verizon working on CM11 smoothly.
Then cyanogenmod sent out a new update and after reboot, My phone was stuck in the blue circle boot screen.
I can't get adb to recognize my device to push a ROM to the phone for recovery. And from what i understand there is no other way to push a zip to the phone.
Fastboot doesn't flash the zip.
EDIT: For future reference: Find the RUU from this page: Guru flash it via fastboot. It will return phone to stock.
Ignore the rest
I wiped all caches, factory reset, wiped dalvik, and did everthing i could, but after hours of trying I haven't accomplished anything.
I can get into recover (i'm using clockworkmod). Bootloader is unlocked, s-off, rooted.... Don't know what else to say
I can't enable debug mode since I can't even boot, and from what I understand that's why adb won't work... But that doesn't make sense since i don't have a system on it. (i wiped everything)
Do you have a nandroid you can restore?
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brymaster5000 said:
Do you have a nandroid you can restore?
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No i do not. I just went over from the stock sense 5, to cm11.
Once i saw everything working i deleted all backups of any type...
Then forgot to back up before updating to the nightly.
So no, no nandroid.
Do you have fastboot working? If so, I would suggest an ruu.
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brymaster5000 said:
Do you have fastboot working? If so, I would suggest an ruu.
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Fastboot working.
Explain please.
I saw RUU phrase used in multiple places but can't figure out what it fully means.
Click Here To Win said:
Fastboot working.
Explain please.
I saw RUU phrase used in multiple places but can't figure out what it fully means.
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Go to the ruu thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437436, grab the ruu. Go into fastboot, type fastboot oem rebootRUU...(search before you do though...I'm not100% on phrasing of commands), then when it boots to a black HTC, fastboot flash zip name.zip.
Please search before you do this though...I don't want to give you bad commands. But this should point you in the right direction. Good luck.
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brymaster5000 said:
Go to the ruu thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437436, grab the ruu. Go into fastboot, type fastboot oem rebootRUU...(search before you do though...I'm not100% on phrasing of commands), then when it boots to a black HTC, fastboot flash zip name.zip.
Please search before you do this though...I don't want to give you bad commands. But this should point you in the right direction. Good luck.
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Alright, I will look into this once I get home! I was thinking it was something very difficult and time consuming... Didn't realize it could be so simple.
I'll research it. Let you know how it goes!
brymaster5000 said:
Go to the ruu thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2437436, grab the ruu. Go into fastboot, type fastboot oem rebootRUU...(search before you do though...I'm not100% on phrasing of commands), then when it boots to a black HTC, fastboot flash zip name.zip.
Please search before you do this though...I don't want to give you bad commands. But this should point you in the right direction. Good luck.
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Thanks times a million!
I downloaded the 1.1gb RUU, and installed now I'm back to stock, and will go back to cm11. Working!
Click Here To Win said:
Thanks times a million!
I downloaded the 1.1gb RUU, and installed now I'm back to stock, and will go back to cm11. Working!
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Glad I could help. The lesson of today's story is to always keep at least one nandroid. ?
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T-Mobile RUU

Has anyone got their hands on the T-Mobile RUU, or know of a way to get it back to out of the box stock?
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Only way currently is your stk back up,
I made a back up in twrp
However it is read only that I am trying to convert to read/write
If someone wants to chime in our help meet do this I can share it. Had system image, data, cache, all original partians.
However it has twrp as its recovery img
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I have a stock back up. However, I still need the stock recovery.
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:crying::crying::crying: I, too, need this mystical T-Mobile stock RUU for the HTC 10. I'm stuck in either bootloader mode or download mode. I cannot reboot the phone into normalcy, nor can I get it into recovery mode (of which would be TWRP). After rooting it I put the SELinuxModeChanger apk on my phone and downloaded it. When I opened it, it gave an error telling me that I was either not rooted (double checked that w/ a root checker and it confirmed I certainly was), or that it wasn't being given any permissions by the SU (of which I certainly did). I didn't think much of this till now - it wasn't a huge deal. And I made the choice that I just wanted to start fresh and go back to stock.
Did all the necessary preparations for it and couldn't find the HTC 10 RUU under T-Mobile on their site...but thought the one under Unlocked/Developer would be fine. Tried it, the program told me I couldn't do it with that version and now I'm stuck at aforementioned point. I could certainly use help as well.
Only way to go back to stock is to restore a backup. What do you get when you try to go into TWRP?
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fmedrano1977 said:
Only way to go back to stock is to restore a backup. What do you get when you try to go into TWRP?
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I get this error:
"Failed to boot to recovery mode
Press volume up or down to back to menu"
I've been talking to a bunch of XDA member in a group chat app on my HTC Desire...someone mentioned something along the lines of using a backup that will work for the HTC 10 T-Mobile phone.
Can I use my fiances somehow? He's rooted w/ custom ROM.
Emilicious said:
I get this error:
"Failed to boot to recovery mode
Press volume up or down to back to menu"
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Tried reflashing TWRP?
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fmedrano1977 said:
Tried reflashing TWRP?
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Hmm...I have not. Give me 5 min and I'll update you.
Emilicious said:
Hmm...I have not. Give me 5 min and I'll update you.
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I would re download it, incase the one you have is a bad download.
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fmedrano1977 said:
I would re download it, incase the one you have is a bad download.
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Oi vey :crying: so since I was trying to use the RUU to get back to stock - I relocked my phone (as it is a prerequisite for the job to get done). So, since you can't flash while locked, I simply go to enter in my fastboot unlock command for this device and I get this is response:
error: cannot load 'token'
So now I am going through the HTCDev website and am going to redo the bootloader unlock process to see if that will work with unlocking it once more...then I will attempt to reflash TWRP. If it's all successful...I have the TWRP backup on my SD card...will the reinstalled version of TWRP be able to use it?
Emilicious said:
Oi vey :crying: so since I was trying to use the RUU to get back to stock - I relocked my phone (as it is a prerequisite for the job to get done). So, since you can't flash while locked, I simply go to enter in my fastboot unlock command for this device and I get this is response:
error: cannot load 'token'
So now I am going through the HTCDev website and am going to redo the bootloader unlock process to see if that will work with unlocking it once more...then I will attempt to reflash TWRP. If it's all successful...I have the TWRP backup on my SD card...will the reinstalled version of TWRP be able to use it?
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Yes
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Welp...
Sad day - I enter my "fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin" in the CMD window...and the menu where I get prompted with the question as to whether or not I want to unlock the bootloader on my phone popped up. I jumped for joy up to the point where it froze after I said yes, shut down, then went back to bootloader mode.......still locked :crying:
No what?
Try fastboot erase cache and then try booting into TWRP
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fmedrano1977 said:
Try fastboot erase cache and then try booting into TWRP
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"erasing 'cashe'... FAILED (remote: Partition cashe erase not supported)
finished. total time: 0.006s"
OMG IGNORE I AM A DERP...cashe...lmfao
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Damn. Welp, the cache dump went through...but I still can't get into recovery.
Emilicious said:
"erasing 'cashe'... FAILED (remote: Partition cashe erase not supported)
finished. total time: 0.006s"
OMG IGNORE I AM A DERP...cashe...lmfao
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Damn. Welp, the cache dump went through...but I still can't get into recovery.
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Try posting in the convert the Tmobile to US unlocked thread for help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...o-unlocked-t3384460/post67138982#post67138982
I was able to run the ruu unlocked
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fmedrano1977 said:
Try posting in the convert the Tmobile to US unlocked thread for help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc...o-unlocked-t3384460/post67138982#post67138982
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Mmk...imma check this site out! I'm very hopeful this can be an answer for me! I feel like I took over the OP's thread... I'm sorry! However, I REALLY appreciate the help/ feedback.
I will update the thread with how it goes! :fingers-crossed:
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Android The Greek said:
I was able to run the ruu unlocked
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#Fingers crossed!!
If your soffed and unlock you just need to run the unlocked ruu
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Android The Greek said:
If your soffed and unlock you just need to run the unlocked ruu
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I can't do this till I get computer access again. However, I just realized that my bootloader is relocked...and I'm stuck in either download or bootloader mode. It won't reboot into the phones UI nor will it boot into recovery. Will I even be able to preform this operation?
Emilicious said:
I can't do this till I get computer access again. However, I just realized that my bootloader is relocked...and I'm stuck in either download or bootloader mode. It won't reboot into the phones UI nor will it boot into recovery. Will I even be able to preform this operation?
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Are you soffed. Did you try using your token in DL mode to unlock?
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Riddled by my (soft) bricked N5X ...

Hi guys
Noob here, but with a somewhat decent understanding of flashing and I'm kinda riddled by my current situation.
The current state of my phone is:
Locked bootloader.
Access to TWRP (2.8). Access to MTP and install function within TWRP.
OEM unlocking NOT allowed (since I can't boot into the OS).
So the logical thing to do (and as req'ed in dozens of threads with the same problem) would be to flash a custom ROM via TWRP's Install function, boot into it, enable OEM unlocking, unlock the bootloader and do whatever I want from there.
Except ... that all the ROMs I flash are stuck in bootloop. They go through the flashing process, TWRP shows success and then ... an endless android (or custom) loop when I reboot. I tried flashing PureNexus, Cataclysm and Chroma.
Any idea on what might be going wrong here (I thought of the vendor.img I have on right now being a wrong one, but I have no idea how to flash the good one without access to the vendor partition) ?
Any help would be appreciated, I saw that I could go through the LG flashtool/TOT unbricking method but I don't have i. a PC (I'm on a Mac) or ii. an original Nexus USB cable so that would put me back a few days.
Cheers
You can't flash a custom ROM with a locked bootloader....
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You need to flash all the original stock images via ADB and restart from there
TW1ST3D1NS4N3 said:
You can't flash a custom ROM with a locked bootloader....
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You need to flash all the original stock images via ADB and restart from there
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Yes, you can in recovery ...
Apparently not. Let me rephrase. You cannot flash a custom ROM with your bootloader locked and your phone work properly.... reflash all stock images through ADB. Take the advice or don't.
How did you get in this sh!tuation? Did you OEM lock with TWRP installed?
Anyway, the TOT method is most likely the only way to get it going again. I wouldn't waste my time doing anything else. Ask a friend/family member to borrow a computer with windows on it.
PiousInquisitor said:
How did you get in this sh!tuation? Did you OEM lock with TWRP installed?
Anyway, the TOT method is most likely the only way to get it going again. I wouldn't waste my time doing anything else. Ask a friend/family member to borrow a computer with windows on it.
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Not sure how I ended up here. :silly:
Is it true you absolutely need original Nexus USB cable for it to work ?
chafouin said:
Not sure how I ended up here. :silly:
Is it true you absolutely need original Nexus USB cable for it to work ?
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No. Likely any USB A to C will work.
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TW1ST3D1NS4N3 said:
Apparently not. Let me rephrase. You cannot flash a custom ROM with your bootloader locked and your phone work properly.... reflash all stock images through ADB. Take the advice or don't.
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I'm thankful for any help, sorry if I was dissmisive. I'm not aware of flashing through ADB, just sideloading.
I can flash via fastboot, but can't right now because of my locked bootloader.
Presently I can sideload via ADB in recovery (which amounts to the same as flashing from recovery if I understand correctly ?) but any other flashing/thinkering via fastboot/ADB is verboten because my bootloader is locked.
If you're thinking of something else I'd be glad if you could detail your thinkings and the steps I'd need to make
@chafouin you just reminded me that Google is posting full OTAs. At least for the Android N developer previews. So theoretically you could factory reset from recovery and sideload an OTA. OTAs don't require an unlocked bootloader.
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Just download the latest Rom from google site and run flashall file. Simple.
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milan187 said:
Just download the latest Rom from google site and run flashall file. Simple.
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How do you propose he do that with a locked bootloader?
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PiousInquisitor said:
How do you propose he do that with a locked bootloader?
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The stock rom? Why is that a problem? Put the device in fastboot and load. Locked bootloader does not allow custom roms. It allows stock.
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milan187 said:
The stock rom? Why is that a problem? Put the device in fastboot and load. Locked bootloader does not allow custom roms. It allows stock.
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In my experience *on the 5x* locked bootloader doesn't allow you to flash factory images.
I haven't tested with latest bootloader, but that has been he case with past bootloaders.
Other manufacturers and phone models handle things differently.
You can however now flash stock using the FULL OTA provided on the same factory image site. In that case you would use adb sideload, not fastboot.
sfhub said:
In my experience *on the 5x* locked bootloader doesn't allow you to flash factory images.
I haven't tested with latest bootloader, but that has been he case with past bootloaders.
Other manufacturers and phone models handle things differently.
You can however now flash stock using the FULL OTA provided on the same factory image site. In that case you would use adb sideload, not fastboot.
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Hmm I flashed mine without unlocking bootloader...
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chafouin said:
Hi guys
Noob here, but with a somewhat decent understanding of flashing and I'm kinda riddled by my current situation.
The current state of my phone is:
Locked bootloader.
Access to TWRP (2.8). Access to MTP and install function within TWRP.
OEM unlocking NOT allowed (since I can't boot into the OS).
So the logical thing to do (and as req'ed in dozens of threads with the same problem) would be to flash a custom ROM via TWRP's Install function, boot into it, enable OEM unlocking, unlock the bootloader and do whatever I want from there.
Except ... that all the ROMs I flash are stuck in bootloop. They go through the flashing process, TWRP shows success and then ... an endless android (or custom) loop when I reboot. I tried flashing PureNexus, Cataclysm and Chroma.
Any idea on what might be going wrong here (I thought of the vendor.img I have on right now being a wrong one, but I have no idea how to flash the good one without access to the vendor partition) ?
Any help would be appreciated, I saw that I could go through the LG flashtool/TOT unbricking method but I don't have i. a PC (I'm on a Mac) or ii. an original Nexus USB cable so that would put me back a few days.
Cheers
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Have you tried factory reset from TWRP?
If I were you I wouldn't try to flash to stock unless as last resort. Locked bootloader with TWRP installed is better diagnostic situation that locked bootloader with stock recovery installed. If you try to flash to stock it is too easy to overwrite your TWRP with stock recovery (it happens behind the scenes)
That is ok, if you are out of options, but I would exhaust all other options first.
milan187 said:
The stock rom? Why is that a problem? Put the device in fastboot and load. Locked bootloader does not allow custom roms. It allows stock.
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You cannot flash the factory images with a locked bootloader. Google it. Look at Google's own documentation.
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PiousInquisitor said:
You cannot flash the factory images with a locked bootloader. Google it. Look at Google's own documentation.
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Sorry, my mistake. Mine must have been unlocked. This is my first Nexus so I'm used to the fact that factory images can be loaded with locked bootloader.
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milan187 said:
Sorry, my mistake. Mine must have been unlocked. This is my first Nexus so I'm used to the fact that factory images can be loaded with locked bootloader.
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On what phone? I've never heard of that.
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PiousInquisitor said:
On what phone? I've never heard of that.
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I've done it recently on LG G4 and BlackBerry PRIV where I used flashall command.
Neither has a possibility for bootloader unlock.
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I've had other phones that allow flash if things are signed (which factory images are on those phones).

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