I have an old phone and I no longer use this. I tried to charge it yesterday an hour after I tried to open it and I was surprised its bootloop after being stocked in my closet. I googled a fix yet I have to unlock the bootloader first. I have tried multiple times in unlocking the bootloader in the HTC website. I tried the HTC Desire* I tried the All Other Supported Models nothing helps!
The reason why I want to unlock my bootloader so I can flash a customer recovery so I can flash the stock firmware. For some reason HTC doesnt have a download mode or "ODIN MODE IN SAMSUNG PHONES" so people who had firmware issues can simply flash the stock firmware without having the hassle of unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone first. I am not fonds of rooting the device because it's kinda complicated for me.
Does anyone have an Idea how to revive this old phone? HTC Desire 300 301e Android 4.0
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Has anyone ever seen this? Got this phone cheap and would like to fix it.
Can't get into bootloader, just goes to this screen and keeps rebooting ever so often.
Cheers for any help
Ok an update, it seems the volume- button is broken but back key + power worked and I got into the boot menu. Here's a pic.
Where should I go from here?
Is there a way of knowing if the phone is branded and what brand or unlocked so I can try flashing a WWE RUU?
Ok so the phone is branded T Mobile since a Tmob RUU worked just fine but with WWE ROMs I get a CID mismatch.
Made a goldcard with 2 sd cards but it doesn't work since I get a CID error mismatch again.
I should mention that after a T Mobile RUU flash that phone was still getting stuck on that same screen in post 1.
I've tried several things but still no luck with getting anywhere.
Thoughts?
EDIT: Made a successful goldcard using a different method and was able to flash the latest WWE RUU but the phone is still stuck on boot, the difference is that now it's the white screen with HTC in the middle.
So the phone doesn't even get into boot.
Can somebody help me with this??
Ruu really should Fix it. If it doesn't, first port of call should be warranty. Does ruu give no error?
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As I've mentioned, I got this phone for cheap so no warranty.
Nope, no errors with goldcard. Also I should mention I can't get into recovery, it just goes back into boot loop.
I suspect some partition somewhere must be corrupted.
If the phone had S-OFF it would make things so much easier.
Ok so an update, for anyone who runs into this problem.
After trying basically everything (even trying to unlock bootloader with a HTC Unlocker device with no success, probably due to action key not working) I was going to go and try to unlock the official way.
To unlock the official way I had to update the ROM so I just used the latest update which is 2.3.3 and after flashing I was finally able to boot!! So it seems like the problem was not hardware related at all.
Next I used Revolutionary to S-OFF, flashed CWM Touch and used root.zip for root access. Now I'm happy I got it all going and it's time for a sandwich, the ice cream variant
Peace!
here's the situation
i have recently bought refurbished htc one x
i wanted to update it with offical jelly bean update it showed me
th update downloaded and i proceed to install it, i was a long time on the installing icon so i left my phone, when i got back it wouldnt turn on like the batery was empty
before doing the update it showed around 50% so i wasnt thinking about it, but it seems i died during the update
now - i cannot turn my phone on, its stuck on htc logo, i can access bootloader mode, it says i have hboot 1,12
radio 5.1204.162,29
the bootloader is locked
could someone tell me in simple steps how to bring it alive? is it even possible?
I havent flashed my one x in a while, but try charge it as much as you can while in recovery or bootloader mode.
Then try unlocking the bootloader using htcdev and Hasoons all in one toolkit from the dev section.
That will help you get a custom recovery installed and allow you to reinstall another firmware.
Not sure how much you already know so I apologise if this is basic info haha.
Also dont forget to flash the boot.img if you go with a custom rom
Good luck
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Return it for repair if you can. Unlocking bootloader is the hard way out if you ask me.
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A ruu might be a way out, but it's a long shot because the ruu doesn't need a unlocked bootloader.
Mr Hofs said:
A ruu might be a way out, but it's a long shot because the ruu doesn't need a unlocked bootloader.
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Try this first.
I completely forgot about RUUs. You need to get the one that matches your CID
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Sending it for repair isnt really an option as i bought the device and now im leaving the uk.
so they would send it back to me as ill be in another country.
also i opened it as i had the anthena problem but i solved it.
software speaking, as that is the problem, is it harf to fix?
i had couple of androids and customized all of them, but im new to htc and all that ruu,cids...
i dont mind custom rom, right now i just want to recover any functionality.
So if the ruu is the easiest way out is there a newbie tutorial? as i cant find it
and is unlocking the bootloader, flashing a custom recovery ans rom is so complicated to other devices?
i dont.know.what do you nean by flashing boot.img while flashing rom
When you run an ruu the computer end of it walks you through what to do. Make sure you have latest version of htc sync installed and do exactly what it says. Also returning it is the best option under normal circumstances. I did exactly that when ota wrecked my shift
Hiya, call me a noob, a super noob perhaps but I was very new to the whole android custom rom experience. I was running viper custom sense rom but as it had become buggy I decided to try and revert back to stock. Following guides I read on here and saw on YouTube I ended wiping the phone and re-locking the boot loader and flashing the stock recovery however I didn't realise that there were specific ruu needed for different models. I live in the UK and have the phone on the network three so I'm assuming its sim locked to h3g. I don't know what to do (if anything) now to get my phone working as I cannot unlock the boot loader to try installing a custom rom so don't know what to do... Is this phone fixable or now a full blown brick ? Thanks Aaron
Why can't you unlock your bootloader again?
Just perform the same steps as when you first unlocked it
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Hi,
So ive spent at least a total of 12hours on this phone trying to unlock it. - im only posting this, in the hope to spare a lot of other peoples time by sharing my experience and hoping to get some advice.
I have submitted an unlock via IMEI to 3 different servers to retrieve the factory unlock code, and all codes ive got are not unlocking the phone.
This phone belongs to a customer of mine, and had started into the venture of unlocking it alternatively as they wanted the phone unlocked some how, i had explained its possible with root and custom roms etc.
So i started my venture and have come to very little success.
I had downloaded TWRP recovery and unlocked bootloader, and once it was installed and flashed with fastboot, my phone would not turn on. - i had used HTC M8 files, and not HTC M8s files - i was stuck in M8 recovery. - i had used these files as any search for HTC M8s would fill up with just the M8 edition.
Endless playing with different combinations of buttons, just holding the power button for a long time got the phone to boot up. (if i left the phone off, and had it charging, the charging logo would show up on a "bootloop" and would not power up, back to the "bricked" mode it was in. -unplug charger and playing with combinations of buttons to get back on)
(If your in this state and panicking, dont panic, your phone is stuck in m8 recovery that i flashed and holding power should kick you out of it, make sure your usb isnt connected)
Enter fastboot mode holding volume down and power and flash htc m8s TWRP-recovery solved all issues with recovery loops and boot errors.
It took me a long time to find the M8s TWRP and recovery files, but on flashing them, my phone booted into M8s recovery and i was able to install SuperUser and root phone.
I was then at the situation of turning the S-On, to S-Off. - More problems.
The tutorial i followed was suggesting to use firewater, and after endless rebooting and downloading SDK files etc, couldnt get S-OFF as i was getting error PID file format only. - HTC has patched this method - time to move on......... FIREWATER DOES NOT WORK.
I was trying to avoid the situation of paying any more to unlock, so giving up had turned to the Sunshine S-OFF tool. This costs $25, and is a simple android app to turn rooted devices from s-On to s-OFF. - I installed and downloaded it to find HTC M8s is not compatible.
A message to all HTC M8s Owners looking to unlock there device for Free, or as a last resort if factory unlock is not available. ---> As of this date, its not possible to turn S-OFF without a "javacard" which is a device to plug into sd slot and magically turns it off.... sorry. - Thus not possible to unlock via root.
If there is a solution, please do let me know, this phone has eaten me up. I have to go to the service provider and try get the code from them.
You talking about sim unlocking ? Even with s-off you can't just sim unlock it, even with a custom rom you can't just sim unlock it.
Firewater is offline now for over a year already and if sunshine isn't compatible there is just no (affordable) way to s-off.
All those methods are not working anymore. You really need a working code or help from the carrier.
Bootloader unlocking and running custom roms or rooted stock is totally different to carrier unlocking a device. And also would like to mention that the M8s is not very supported with custom roms. There are about 2 roms i know of.
And make absolutely sure that you know what you are doing and create a pure STOCK NANDROID BACKUP (one before you pushed root) so you are able to bring the device back to stock for future ota updates.
You can not update a rooted rom (also not a stock one) once rooted the system is changed and can't be undone so you definitely need a "never rooted stock rom"
And the needed files are easily to find actually because there is a dedicated thread here for the M8s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3114245
Solved.
I flashed the 3.35.401.12 RUU according to Flippy498's guide
https://forum.xda-developers.com/one-m9/general/stock-nand-backup-ota-update-collection-t3132698 (Thread #5)
All the Phone data was wiped during the process.
shivadow and computerslayer thanks again for your help
Hello,
My friend's HTC M9 got bricked during the new Nougat update (was turned off during update).
Ever since it is bootlooping, in can put it in Bootloader and Download mode but can't load it to recovery mode.
Tried to flash the stock recovery via download mode but the phone is S-ON and locked.
What are my options in getting the phone back to life (gave up on saving any of the data on the device)?
Any help will be appreciated.
P.S.
First time handeling HTC but have a lot of experience with nexus devices
Device info:
HTC M9 himauhl
S-ON,
Locked,
OS - 3.35.401.32
You need to run the ruu.exe but I don't know if one exists for your version. You can flash any 3.35.401.xx ruu but those that aren't "xx" must match. Not sure you can flash a signed zip in s-on state..
If the ruu.exe doesn't exist then you'll either have to wait for it to be released or rtm for repair.
There is no actual way to know exactly how buggered the phone is because it died in the middle of a flash process. It is very possible it died just as it was flashing recovery, explaining why there isn't one, but I wouldn't like to bet money on it, or it being recoverable at all.
Beamed in by telepathy.
shimshi said:
Hello,
My friend's HTC M9 got bricked during the new Nougat update (was turned off during update).
Ever since it is bootlooping, in can put it in Bootloader and Download mode but can't load it to recovery mode.
Tried to flash the stock recovery via download mode but the phone is S-ON and locked.
What are my options in getting the phone back to life (gave up on saving any of the data on the device)?
Any help will be appreciated.
P.S.
First time handeling HTC but have a lot of experience with nexus devices
Device info:
HTC M9 himauhl
S-ON,
Locked,
OS - 3.35.401.32
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You've access to download mode, so you should be able to use the SD card method of applying the matching RUU. Check out the readme thread for instructions and the necessary file.
Thanks for your help shivadow and computerslayer,
I will look at the RUU method and try to learn more about it and replay if it worked or not.
I have the same problem and have tried everything but it's still bricked. If I send it in for repair will they charge me? My phone is out of warranty (it's 1.5 years old). Since their update caused this problem you would think they wouldn't make me pay. Thoughts?
jewels76 said:
I have the same problem and have tried everything but it's still bricked. If I send it in for repair will they charge me? My phone is out of warranty (it's 1.5 years old). Since their update caused this problem you would think they wouldn't make me pay. Thoughts?
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If you unlocked bootloader, the warranty is void anyway.
Try flashing the stock rom which doesn´t need a unlocked bootloader via htc_fastboot.exe. Place the stock rom in your sd-card. Then in bootloader it will say directly "Do you want to flash xxx.img".
albaniax said:
Try flashing the stock rom which doesn´t need a unlocked bootloader via htc_fastboot.exe. Place the stock rom in your sd-card. Then in bootloader it will say directly "Do you want to flash xxx.img".
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Those are two different methods: The SD card method and the htc_fastboot method (which requires a PC).
And it's actually the other way round. The htc_fastboot method requires a locked or at least re-locked bootloader whereas the SD card method can be used with an unlocked bootloader, as well.