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Ok so guys i had just rooted my htc wildfire s (or atleast thought i rooted it ) and was trying to install a cyanogen mod ROM , it would not install ,if it would install it would be stuck at the htc logo screen , now i thought this would be the fault of recovery so i decided to install another recovery and flash that with cmd (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) but then when i booted in recovery it would show me the pink recovery, i got a little scared and flashed another recovery and now the recovery will not even boot . it will just go on htc logo and black screen , i tried many different recoveries but no avail , it is in s-on right now , please forgive me if this sounds noobish i really am a noob at this .please provide me with a solution and tell me if it is bricked and if i can repair it by taking it to a software shop and asking them to do it for me (Just advise me if i can come back from this)
Flash the first recovery, which actually worked, and if it installs, wipe everything and flash a basic CM7 rom. It'll work. It's just soft bricked don't worry.
parasthakur37 said:
Flash the first recovery, which actually worked, and if it installs, wipe everything and flash a basic CM7 rom. It'll work. It's just soft bricked don't worry.
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actually i gave it to a software store , he said he couldn't do it as the files were not to be found ... i think it might have been bricked but seeing as i can access h-boot only and when i turn on the phone it only stays on the htc logo screen and does not proceed can you call this bricked . ? i tried the first recovery as you mentioned but it was no use ... i tried relocking and unlocking bootloader again but it seems as if that was unnecessary as nothing different happened .. im still waiting for an answer
This is really very weird.
Check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28646721&postcount=5
Start from square one, unlock the bootloader, flash the recovery, if one doesn't install, try another, at least one will surely work, and then flash a new rom.
All the best.
Remember, android can never be bricked, there is always a way out.
parasthakur37 said:
This is really very weird.
Check this out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28646721&postcount=5
Start from square one, unlock the bootloader, flash the recovery, if one doesn't install, try another, at least one will surely work, and then flash a new rom.
All the best.
Remember, android can never be bricked, there is always a way out.
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thank u for the quick reply but i donot know how but i just flashed an old recovery and voila it worked .. now i am a little scared to proceed please guide me what to do to bring back the stock rom ...
ITS DONE
i finally got it to work thank u so much i used jelly king rom on it and it worked DDDDD
Press thanks.
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.
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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 !
Hi there,
To make a long story short, CyanogenMod ****ed my rom when I updated it to a newer version and in return I decided to switch to another rom. I found one, it needed a "new" recovery (TWRP). Now I'm not new in flashing recovery's or rom's, done it on a few phones in my life, including my own about 50 times before. Everything goes correctly, TWRP got flashed, no issues whatsoever. I flash the rom and gapps, everything goes smooth and I reboot my phone. Now as I reboot, the htc logo pops up, then fades a little and comes back, it does this 3 times. Then it just boots into TWRP again. So basically it keeps booting the recovery.
Now I do my research and find this solution where you put in this line into the cmd, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota. If I do this, and I typed it over 20 times now already, and i did it correctly, it says no such file or directory. I also tried it through fastboot on my PC, says the same thing. In return I can't get TWRP to just simply boot my rom. I browsed for over 2 hours now to find a fix, and the only thing people say is: you didn't type it correctly.
I think the boot order of the device is wrong and the recovery is on top, now I want my rom to be on top so when I reboot it, it loads it. I'm not an expert in all of this, I just follow guides and understand the basics. What can I do next to solve this issue? Flash TWRP again? Flash a different version of TWRP? I used "twrp2853", the one they linked to in the page of the rom. the rom is resurrection-remix-lp-v5-2-5-t2987006. I doubt it is the rom tho.
Thank you in advance,
MiniMi
MiniMieen said:
Hi there,
To make a long story short, CyanogenMod ****ed my rom when I updated it to a newer version and in return I decided to switch to another rom. I found one, it needed a "new" recovery (TWRP). Now I'm not new in flashing recovery's or rom's, done it on a few phones in my life, including my own about 50 times before. Everything goes correctly, TWRP got flashed, no issues whatsoever. I flash the rom and gapps, everything goes smooth and I reboot my phone. Now as I reboot, the htc logo pops up, then fades a little and comes back, it does this 3 times. Then it just boots into TWRP again. So basically it keeps booting the recovery.
Now I do my research and find this solution where you put in this line into the cmd, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota. If I do this, and I typed it over 20 times now already, and i did it correctly, it says no such file or directory. I also tried it through fastboot on my PC, says the same thing. In return I can't get TWRP to just simply boot my rom. I browsed for over 2 hours now to find a fix, and the only thing people say is: you didn't type it correctly.
I think the boot order of the device is wrong and the recovery is on top, now I want my rom to be on top so when I reboot it, it loads it. I'm not an expert in all of this, I just follow guides and understand the basics. What can I do next to solve this issue? Flash TWRP again? Flash a different version of TWRP? I used "twrp2853", the one they linked to in the page of the rom. the rom is resurrection-remix-lp-v5-2-5-t2987006. I doubt it is the rom tho.
Thank you in advance,
MiniMi
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Try this:
On your pc, unpack your rom zip. Then put the boot.img file into fastboot folder. Then boot into fastboot and type (ONLY IF YOU ARE BL UNLOCKED): fastboot flash boot boot.img . This is needed to boot the rom, because only flashing the rom doesn't boot them, due to S-ON. You need to flash boot manually. Follow the process and tell me the result
HI,
I am not new to flashing phones and tablets, but I am a bit confused about the new partition format.
I have a nokia 6.1.
I want to flash the official lineage 18 ROM on it.
I downloaded the latest version , and also the latest lineage recovery.
I followed the install instructions on the website . I believe, exactly.
But after I have executed this command '' fastboot flash boot xxxxx.img"" to temporarily boot recovery, the phone stays in download mode and does nothing.
I then thought maybe I need to reboot?, and power down, because the next thing on the lineage install instructions is to start the phone having powered down.
Anyways, when it boots up, it hangs and stays on the android one screen.
Power/Volume up does nothing.
Whats worse is, it is no longer recognised in ADB.
I was really worried. I let the battery die overnight, and then tried to get some response, but no - still stuck.
Finally, after more fiddling, I got it into download mode, and was able to flash stock using OST.
I tried again - same thing, and once again luckily managed after an hour or so to get it into download mode.
So I have reflashed stock, and wondering if somebody a lot brighter than me can give some advice??
Currently on stock android 10, but would much prefer lineage 18 , as I have no need for google services.
Can only think something is going wrong with whichever partition I am temporarily booting to recovery?
Many Thanks ( with a relieved sigh for escaping a brick )
pootler
Something similar happened to me, it turns out that from android 10 stock you have to first:
fastboot flash recovery xxxx.img
you will get an error in the cmd, that's good, now
fasboot boot xxxx.img
.
this was mentioned a long time ago but was never mentioned more in other threads
if you get stuck you can use ost la. also remember the slot A B when you flash the rom
Tsuragi said:
Something similar happened to me, it turns out that from android 10 stock you have to first:
fastboot flash recovery xxxx.img
you will get an error in the cmd, that's good, now
fasboot boot xxxx.img
.
this was mentioned a long time ago but was never mentioned more in other threads
if you get stuck you can use ost la. also remember the slot A B when you flash the rom
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Thanks Tsuragi,
Forgot about that - it was me who posted that solution some time ago duh!
Pootler
pootler said:
HI,
I am not new to flashing phones and tablets, but I am a bit confused about the new partition format.
I have a nokia 6.1.
I want to flash the official lineage 18 ROM on it.
I downloaded the latest version , and also the latest lineage recovery.
I followed the install instructions on the website . I believe, exactly.
But after I have executed this command '' fastboot flash boot xxxxx.img"" to temporarily boot recovery, the phone stays in download mode and does nothing.
I then thought maybe I need to reboot?, and power down, because the next thing on the lineage install instructions is to start the phone having powered down.
Anyways, when it boots up, it hangs and stays on the android one screen.
Power/Volume up does nothing.
Whats worse is, it is no longer recognised in ADB.
I was really worried. I let the battery die overnight, and then tried to get some response, but no - still stuck.
Finally, after more fiddling, I got it into download mode, and was able to flash stock using OST.
I tried again - same thing, and once again luckily managed after an hour or so to get it into download mode.
So I have reflashed stock, and wondering if somebody a lot brighter than me can give some advice??
Currently on stock android 10, but would much prefer lineage 18 , as I have no need for google services.
Can only think something is going wrong with whichever partition I am temporarily booting to recovery?
Many Thanks ( with a relieved sigh for escaping a brick )
pootler
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Hey bro same experience, thats why im stock in android 10 with unlock bootloader. but i successfully flashed lineage with unofficial twrp but the problem is i cant flashed gapps thats why i cant install pre apps and cant use the default message and call. please help me
Hi all!
Long story short, I beefed it...
I tried flashing the unofficial twrp and accidentally did format all on spflashtool.
I'm two months in and for the life of me I can't fix my phone... I've even tried to learn how to write a custom OS myself to fix it but I'm definitely not smart enough.
So, here's where I'm at right now:
When I flash the engineering ROM, the phone boots normally and all that seems to work, but flashing the official MIUI causes a bootloop to the stock recovery.
In there, there's the message "NV data is corrupted".
I'm 2 months in now, so I've seen almost all google pages, so yes, I've tried flashing using the official tool, flashed vbmeta with --disable-verity and --disable-verification.
It's my phone and I have the box here, so I have both IMEI numbers which I managed to flash in the engineering ROM, but flashing the normal MIUI somehow deletes the IMEI numbers again.
I can get into fastboot so the bootloader is unlocked, but I can't boot into the system so I can't enable dev options.
please, if you can help I'm more than happy to answer any other questions and being called an idiot :')
help me, XDA, you're my only hope
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BootLoop not letting me access fastboot
Okay so when I flashed Magisk boot image my device activated boot problems. And when I tried to access recovery mode via adb (from Android Studio), my phone entered a bootloop from which I cannot exit. Vol down + power buttons does not work...
forum.xda-developers.com
I'm in the same exact boat as you...That guide was absolute trash and I can't find anything.
historypm said:
I'm in the same exact boat as you...That guide was absolute trash and I can't find anything.
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Hold tight, I'm very close to fixing it!
Got everything working except mobile network. As soon as I figure that out, I'll post a fix here
RadixMalum said:
Hi all!
Long story short, I beefed it...
I tried flashing the unofficial twrp and accidentally did format all on spflashtool.
I'm two months in and for the life of me I can't fix my phone... I've even tried to learn how to write a custom OS myself to fix it but I'm definitely not smart enough.
So, here's where I'm at right now:
When I flash the engineering ROM, the phone boots normally and all that seems to work, but flashing the official MIUI causes a bootloop to the stock recovery.
In there, there's the message "NV data is corrupted".
I'm 2 months in now, so I've seen almost all google pages, so yes, I've tried flashing using the official tool, flashed vbmeta with --disable-verity and --disable-verification.
It's my phone and I have the box here, so I have both IMEI numbers which I managed to flash in the engineering ROM, but flashing the normal MIUI somehow deletes the IMEI numbers again.
I can get into fastboot so the bootloader is unlocked, but I can't boot into the system so I can't enable dev options.
please, if you can help I'm more than happy to answer any other questions and being called an idiot :')
help me, XDA, you're my only hope
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Good evening, sorry for my bad English, but I have the same problem when this happened, I had miui V13.0.7.0 there, I got bootlop, I loaded V12.5.2.0 there and the phone worked everything except the network, try and let me know
You have to download the firmware and paste it into the platform tools folder and click flash all.bat