Hey, everyone!
So within the past week or two my stock standard HTC One X started playing up, which I'm pretty sure was a result of a recent system update (to 4.2.2, from memory). My 'twilight' app (similar to f.lux but for phones) started randomly turning on and off for no reason, the screen became very rapidly unresponsive unless a great deal of force was applied or the phone was repeatedly locked and unlocked, it began to heat up (even more so than normal), etc, etc. Yesterday the unthinkable happened: it got stuck in a bootloop.
So here's how I wound up where I am right now.
I came to terms with the fact that I was going to lose all of my data (at least Google has automatically backed up my images and videos every few days), and anyone important enough to me that I need their phone number I also have on facebook/google plus or see frequently enough in person that when the issue is resolved I can add their numbers again. So I performed a factory reset hoping that would fix the problem. It didn't. Today, at the behest of a friend of mine, I decided to flash a custom ROM on my phone in an effort to salvage what was increasingly likely looking to be a $600 paperweight. I've never done this before, so I followed the instructions in the following video exactly as shown, and downloaded the latest stable version of Cyanogen mod for the One X. The video can be found by googling, "HTC One X - How To Root (in-depth)". It's the first result.
Everything went... well, not smoothly. But I got there in the end. Eventually the phone rebooted, and the blue (or cyan, I suppose) Cyanogen mod logo came up with the circular loading symbol tracing around it. It stayed this way for some 30 minutes or so. I decided to reboot the phone. Same issue again. I performed a factory reset, cleared the cache, cleared the Dalvik cache, and rebooted again. Still wouldn't pass the booting process. I cleared everything a second time and even reinstalled the update.zip (which for some reason appeared as update.zip.zip in ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.2.7... I'm wondering if that caused some issue). Still no progress. Eventually, out of frustration, I began playing around with random settings within Clockwork Mod Recovery and tried backtracking a few steps computer-side in terms of the installation process, and somewhere along the way I've really F'd things up.
And here's the current situation.
Now, whenever the phone restarts the white HTC splash comes up, followed very quickly by a black screen which flickers momentarily, and then immediately jumps to ClockworkMod Recovery (v5.8.2.7).
Whereas earlier today both fastboot and adb recognised my device, now only fastboot will. I can't get anything to appear in the adb device list anymore. I'd prefer it if people didn't immediately scream, "DRIVER ISSUE!" considering adb worked for half of the day so it seems relatively unlikely to me that that's the problem.
My computer itself won't recognise that my phone is plugged in (probably because there's no OS anymore by the seems of things). I've tried two USB cables to no avail (the first worked earlier on this afternoon, so that shouldn't be an issue).
Within the 'choose zip from sdcard' section of ClockworkMod Recovery I can choose from (other than all of the files that were already in there):
CWN-SuperSU-v0.87.zip
update.zip.zip (the double file extension really bugs me)
'mount USB storage' within ClockworkMod Recovery gives me an erroy reading, E: Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or di...) (runs off the screen, although presumably it just says no such file or directory exists).
I can't think of anything else that's relevant or would help troubleshoot this issue. If you need anymore info please just let me know and I'll do my best to supply it (you may have to lead me through the data acquisition process, however). I'm really hoping the phone isn't completely bricked because I don't exactly have the money right now to buy a new phone - I'm a uni student who only works part time and I just bought a car a few weeks ago. Bye bye, savings.
Regards,
Scott.
man, stupid question, did you flash the boot.img in the bootloader before or after flashing the rom?
if yes,
what cyanogen did you install?
cyanogen 10.2 should work with your recovery but cyanogen 11 needs a particular one
edit:did you make a backup (in the recovery) before flashing?
Want a working phone for now, follow this :
Download this recovery and flash it :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qp21ubo10xetcvn/Philz recovery 5.15.9.img
Download a sense 5 rom like arhd or blade from the forum here. Copy the boot.img from the rom and flash that too. Then enter the recovery and mount the sdcard as a usb mass storage device and wait as long as it needs to pop up on the pc.
Copy the rom to the sdcard and then perform a full wipe
Factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Advanced - wipe dalvik cache
Mounts and storage - format cache, data and system
Then install the rom.zip and reboot.
Husky34 said:
man, stupid question, did you flash the boot.img in the bootloader before or after flashing the rom?
if yes,
what cyanogen did you install?
cyanogen 10.2 should work with your recovery but cyanogen 11 needs a particular one
edit:did you make a backup (in the recovery) before flashing?
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I flashed SOME .img file, but not one called 'boot.img'. Can't remember when, unfortunately. If you find the youtube video I mentioned I followed that exactly.
No recovery unfortunately. I saw no point given that the phone was almost unusable in any form prior to me getting Cyanogen installed (it was constantly and randomly rebooting). Probably a mistake in retrospect.
Version 10.2, by the way.
Mr Hofs said:
Want a working phone for now, follow this :
Download this recovery and flash it :
Download a sense 5 rom like arhd or blade from the forum here. Copy the boot.img from the rom and flash that too. Then enter the recovery and mount the sdcard as a usb mass storage device and wait as long as it needs to pop up on the pc.
Copy the rom to the sdcard and then perform a full wipe
Factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Advanced - wipe dalvik cache
Mounts and storage - format cache, data and system
Then install the rom.zip and reboot.
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Can you walk me through it step-by-step. Again, I'm a total noob to this and I DON'T want to stuff this up again. Is the fact that adb (or my PC in general) isn't recognising my phone going to make this difficult? I mean how am I meant to copy anything to the SD card if I can't access it through windows explorer or via adb push?!
You need fastboot. Rename my linked recovery to just recovery.img and flash it :
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Fastboot erase cache
Flash the boot.img from the rom :
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot erase cache
Then enter the recovery and follow earlier given steps
Mr Hofs said:
You need fastboot. Rename my linked recovery to just recovery.img and flash it :
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Fastboot erase cache
Flash the boot.img from the rom :
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Fastboot erase cache
Then enter the recovery and follow earlier given steps
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This seems to work at first - instead of jumping into ClockworkMod Recovery, after flashing the image file you gave me, it jumps into a new recovery mode. But after rebooting and going into recovery mode again it's back to ClockworkMod Recovery (I made sure to clear the cache).
You mean the old cwm. The new one is cwm based and looks just like it. If it's flashed it can't be gone without flashing something else as a recovery !
Mr Hofs said:
You mean the old cwm. The new one is cwm based and looks just like it. If it's flashed it can't be gone without flashing something else as a recovery !
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Oh. Well it looks different the first time I boot into recovery versus the second time (PhilZ Touch 5 with a distinct purple background the first time, but the second time it goes back to a black background with blue text).
Not really sure how to proceed from here. Battery is dropping fast (9%) despite being plugged in, so I'm worried if I don't fix this ASAP it'll be forever FUBAR.
The old one does not support charging. Try flashing philz again and keep it in there and charge it up as Philz does enable charging in recovery.
If you use Fastboot flash recovery command the old one is gone.....can't come back like that !
Mr Hofs said:
The old one does not support charging. Try flashing philz again and keep it in there and charge it up as Philz does enable charging in recovery.
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Mr Hofs, you sir are a gentlemen and a scholar! I have managed to get back to the initial bootscreen for Cyanogen mod. AND SUCCESS! IT JUST PASSED THAT SCREEN AS I WAS TYPING!
I am indebted to you, you glorious man! Thank you so very much I'll keep you guys posted (for better or worse)!
Hope it will be fine. I will keep an eye out here
Mr Hofs said:
Hope it will be fine. I will keep an eye out here
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So I tried updating the camera (?) as a suggested update after getting back into my phone, and it's already stuffed up again. It rebooted and said that root access has possibly been lost. What's happening now?
Doesn't appear to be a big issue for now, actually. Reset, not caused any problems since then! Managed to get google apps working, and downloaded a bunch of the apps I need All's well!
Thanks one again!
Alright ! Hope i don't see you here again
Hi all - I have been searching these threads for hours and hope I can bother for some assistance. I too have soft bricked, I went to install Android Revolution HD 33.1 but missed a step. I am currently Tampered, unlocked, and S-On. I have TWRP v2.5.0.0. When I mount the sd card in TWRP, and try to copy files over, I get a message from the PC to format the sd card - I didn't for fear of wiping out everything and hardbricking the phone. I am a noob when it comes to using commands/fastboot to copy files over. I am sorry to ask, but can someone please help me with exactly what to type?
Oh - and do I need to use philz recovery since I have TRWP installed and can access?
darule_2011 said:
Hi all - I have been searching these threads for hours and hope I can bother for some assistance. I too have soft bricked, I went to install Android Revolution HD 33.1 but missed a step. I am currently Tampered, unlocked, and S-On. I have TWRP v2.5.0.0. When I mount the sd card in TWRP, and try to copy files over, I get a message from the PC to format the sd card - I didn't for fear of wiping out everything and hardbricking the phone. I am a noob when it comes to using commands/fastboot to copy files over. I am sorry to ask, but can someone please help me with exactly what to type?
Oh - and do I need to use philz recovery since I have TRWP installed and can access?
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TAMPERED ? what does your hboot say :
1: ENDEAVORU
2: EVITA
Mr Hofs said:
TAMPERED ? what does your hboot say :
1: ENDEAVORU
2: EVITA
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EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0-19as.32.09.11_2
As i thought. You are in the very wrong forum. Head over to the HTC ONE XL forum....AT&T .....
Mr Hofs said:
As i thought. You are in the very wrong forum. Head over to the HTC ONE XL forum....AT&T .....
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uh oh, that doesn't sound good for me...I don't have the XL version, just the one X. Will that matter? Did I flash this baby using files for the XL when I should have used something else?
No you don't read well. You have the HTC one XL (EVITA) and this forum is for the ENDEAVORU HTC one X international version.
We here have the quad core and you there have the dual core phone !
I recently my phone - LG Optimus G Pro - using Kingo Root and added ClockworkMod Recovery 6.0.4.4. on KitKat. I wanted to install cyanogenmod 12, and when I cleared everything (data, cache, dalvik cache) and attempted to flash cm12, it said my device was geefhd4g instead of geefhd, so it didn't install.
Stock LG 4.4.2 was now bootlooping and didn't work at all. I downloaded the backup/restore file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760895, and used adb push to get it on my phone, but it gave me a /data error, and I was unable to fully restore it.
It was still bootlooping, so I then edited the updater script on cm12 and tried to flash it, but it got stuck on the boot animation, and is also bootlooping. I can only access recovery now, and don't know how to get past this error.
I really have no idea what to do from here, and all I want to do is recover my phone's functionality. I don't care what ROM I manage to get on there, as long as it works.
As a side note, I made a nandroid backup using the Online Nandroid Backup app on google play store, but the backup made was 8 GB, and ever since I tried to restore my phone from the backup in the link above, adb push gave me an error saying that I don't have any space - though I clearly do , as it is a 32GB phone. The phone does have a microSD slot, but I don't have a microSD card, so is there any way to solve this issue without one?
Thanks!
For the stock rom bootloop perform a factory reset. I probably happens right after flashing the stock rom. Been there. Google for help on how to do factory reset. I think you need to hold down vol + & vol-.
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Volume + and Volume - brings me to download mode, but my computer won't recognize the phone (I don't know why, but probably because the /data restore didn't work). Also, I have no idea how to factory reset during a bootloop, and I can't seem to find it on the internet. Do you have a link?
Thanks
Hi, Few months back i bought the Zenfone 2 and now i want to sell it because it's breaking apart (Fast charging not working, no vibrate, etc), but before that i want to make the phone's system to factory system (without TWRP and non custom ROM), "well why don't you just reflash the whole thing?" reason i make this thread is because i tried installing the latest WW firmware for the ZE551ML using TWRP but it says it failed to mount or something then 5 minute the whole thing failed, that's one thing, second problem i accidently pressed reboot system when the flashing failed i then tried to turn it on to recovery again it doesn't work. FYI, I didn't make any stock backups because i thought everything wasn't gonna go wrong since i see people have no problem doing it(flashing roms and stuff)
Question:
1. Do i need to install the latest lollipop firmware then update it to marshmallow? or i can do it manually using SD card by renaming the file to MOFD_SDUPDATE.zip ?
2. Can i flash stock recovery without PC?
3. How can i reflash the whole thing if i can't get my phone to recovery ?
Hi there all, I need your help.
I decided to sell my Note 2 and as I tried to factory reset the phone for the new owner- it lead to bootloop witch I don't know how to get out of.
Basically it's N7105 model, unlocked and rooted. TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 13. Was working totaly fine.
Before factory reseting I've read that to completely clean the data you should encrypt the phone and that will scramble the data. So I went and did that.
After I went to factory reset ,but it did nothing and just rebooted. Apparently it's some known bug in CM13, it's not working -many people experience it. And also there is no way to decrypt the data.
So now where I've made a mistake: I went to TWRP and saw one backup from the times I've installed TWRP and rom, and without thinking I pressed to restore.
But that backup was made when I've installed TWRP but OS was stock.
So now it goes through TWRP saying unable to mount data partition and then boots (not fully) to original Samsung OS but with an error: "Encryption failed. Unable to complete encryption due to interuption. Perform factory data reset (erasing all your data) before use. After resetting, try encrypting device again".
And one button to reset the device. If I press that it will go through the TWRP again as above. I can charge the phone and I can press Vol buttons.
I tried to connect with pc through ADB but looks like no devices are found. And in my Device Manager threre is an Yellow Exclamation mark on the phone line saying "The device cannot start". So that's the situation. Is there I can try before canceling sale?
Thanks for your help!
Paul
Did you try to flash the phone with a stock ROM in Odin?
Big thanks!
I did and it's all good!
What a wonderful program Odin- who created it?
Do you know if I lost root after flashing it?
Thanks!
Yes, flashing a stock ROM will remove root.
Odin is a Samsung product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin_(firmware_flashing_software)