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[Q] Think I might have made an unrecoverable bricking of my phone...

I was trying to do this:
STEP 5 - CHANGING BACK TO S-ON - PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. BEWARE THERE IS A RISK OF BRICKING READ BEFORE GOING TO STEP 1.
YOU MUST Follow this correctly otherwise you could semi-brick your device (Semi bricks recovery by re-flashing RUU). If you follow it correctly YOU WILL GET S-ON SUCCESSFULLY -confirmed by other users
I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong but i will help in every situation. 2 unrecoverable bricks so far. 1 due to not flashing RUU
First time i did this with a custom ROM installed - semi-bricked my device (couldn't boot due to security warning as S-on doesn't work with custom roms), restored it using RUU.exe
Second time after S-off i took the following steps and successfully went back to S-ON without any problems and booted up into stock rom.
Confirmed to work by several others as well as myself
1. Follow Step 4 above to get SuperCID - Skip if you already have it
2. Restore your official stock Rom: Just click here to download an Official Rom RESTORE STOCK EVEN IF YOU JUST RESTORED IT RECENTLY OR ARE ALREADY ON STOCK ROM. This is to ensure nothing gets changed in stock for S-on to be successful
So if you are already on a stock ROM or you just went back to stock ROM, i don't care, restore the stock ROM again using the RUU.exe if you don't want to be bricked!
Connect to your phone in charging mode. click the "RUU_pyramid_*****.exe" file you downloaded and follow on screen instructions.
3. Make sure when you download the RUU. download the same or similiar RUU version as your phone came with (e.g. Tmous or EU or Asian etc). As long as you install a stock rom similiar to what you had you should be ok. FAILURE TO DO THIS MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE.
4. Switch your phone on now and let it boot for the first time and just skip through the welcome screen.
5. Go back to Step 4 - SUPERCID and go through 1 to 7 to get to the fastboot bootloader. (so just do what you did before, put adb files in local disk, adb reboot bootloader etc)
6. enter the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" (Thanks Dazweeja)
7. Reboot into bootloader using "fastboot reboot-bootloader" or remove & reinsert the battery and press power on while keeping hold of volume down.
8. Bootloader should now read Pyramid PVT Ship S-ON RL.
9. Remove and reinsert the battery. Press power on as normal
I think I read it at least 5 times before I went ahead. And SOMEHOW I did managed to overlook step 2 (I even downloaded the RUU - just didn't run it).
And now the phone is dead as a doornail
Is there ANYTHING I can try/do?
I'm on stock ROM.
EDIT: I sent it back to the shop.
EDIT:
Just got the phone back today
They have replaced the "main board". So the phone got a new IMEI...
So my phone is up and kicking again

Asmund said:
I was trying to do this:
STEP 5 - CHANGING BACK TO S-ON - PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. BEWARE THERE IS A RISK OF BRICKING READ BEFORE GOING TO STEP 1.
YOU MUST Follow this correctly otherwise you could semi-brick your device (Semi bricks recovery by re-flashing RUU). If you follow it correctly YOU WILL GET S-ON SUCCESSFULLY -confirmed by other users
I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong but i will help in every situation. 2 unrecoverable bricks so far. 1 due to not flashing RUU
First time i did this with a custom ROM installed - semi-bricked my device (couldn't boot due to security warning as S-on doesn't work with custom roms), restored it using RUU.exe
Second time after S-off i took the following steps and successfully went back to S-ON without any problems and booted up into stock rom.
Confirmed to work by several others as well as myself
1. Follow Step 4 above to get SuperCID - Skip if you already have it
2. Restore your official stock Rom: Just click here to download an Official Rom RESTORE STOCK EVEN IF YOU JUST RESTORED IT RECENTLY OR ARE ALREADY ON STOCK ROM. This is to ensure nothing gets changed in stock for S-on to be successful
So if you are already on a stock ROM or you just went back to stock ROM, i don't care, restore the stock ROM again using the RUU.exe if you don't want to be bricked!
Connect to your phone in charging mode. click the "RUU_pyramid_*****.exe" file you downloaded and follow on screen instructions.
3. Make sure when you download the RUU. download the same or similiar RUU version as your phone came with (e.g. Tmous or EU or Asian etc). As long as you install a stock rom similiar to what you had you should be ok. FAILURE TO DO THIS MAY BRICK YOUR PHONE.
4. Switch your phone on now and let it boot for the first time and just skip through the welcome screen.
5. Go back to Step 4 - SUPERCID and go through 1 to 7 to get to the fastboot bootloader. (so just do what you did before, put adb files in local disk, adb reboot bootloader etc)
6. enter the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" (Thanks Dazweeja)
7. Reboot into bootloader using "fastboot reboot-bootloader" or remove & reinsert the battery and press power on while keeping hold of volume down.
8. Bootloader should now read Pyramid PVT Ship S-ON RL.
9. Remove and reinsert the battery. Press power on as normal
I think I read it at least 5 times before I went ahead. And SOMEHOW I did managed to overlook step 2 (I even downloaded the RUU - just didn't run it).
And now the phone is dead as a doornail
Is there ANYTHING I can try/do?
I'm on stock ROM.
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So you went s off, stayed stock, then tried to s on? No other changes? how far did you get , the write secure flag? And how dead, like no power at all, or boot loop, frozen splash screen?

bobbymokie said:
So you went s off, stayed stock, then tried to s on? No other changes? how far did you get , the write secure flag? And how dead, like no power at all, or boot loop, frozen splash screen?
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Yes, I only rooted it (successfully).
And now I had some problems with the battery cover and wanted to sent it back for a replacement or at least fix it.
So I would unroot it before I brought back to the store.....
I think its dead as can be. There is like no power. Nothing happens when I press the power button - even if I take the battery out and put it back in.
I did everything from 1 to 9 (except step 2)

Asmund said:
Yes, I only rooted it (successfully).
And now I had some problems with the battery cover and wanted to sent it back for a replacement or at least fix it.
So I would unroot it before I brought back to the store.....
I think its dead as can be. There is like no power. Nothing happens when I press the power button - even if I take the battery out and put it back in.
I did everything from 1 to 9 (except step 2)
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does the led light up when plugged in to the charger? Also, who is the carrier?

bobbymokie said:
does the led light up when plugged in to the charger? Also, who is the carrier?
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No, unfortunately nothing from the led. The phone is unbranded and unlocked (I'm from Europe, its quite normal to buy a "carrier-free phone here).

Asmund said:
No, unfortunately nothing from the led. The phone is unbranded and unlocked (I'm from Europe, its quite normal to buy a "carrier-free phone here).
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Bummer. not aware of a way to help. Had hoped it was carrier purchased, as they'd probably exchange it for you. Sorry : (

bobbymokie said:
Bummer. not aware of a way to help. Had hoped it was carrier purchased, as they'd probably exchange it for you. Sorry : (
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Yes, indeed. I can only blame myself
Thanks for trying to help me out.
Maybe some other guys know something. Or maybe I'm just screwed
How likely is it they I will get a replacement if I take it back to the store?
I mean can they read the phone status somehow, and that way see that I
I messed it up?

Asmund said:
Yes, indeed. I can only blame myself
Thanks for trying to help me out.
Maybe some other guys know something. Or maybe I'm just screwed
How likely is it they I will get a replacement if I take it back to the store?
I mean can they read the phone status somehow, and that way see that I
I messed it up?
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well if its completely dead they can't read anything from it. Adb won't even find it. But that's not exactly honest (not saying I wouldn't try) to return it as defective

As bobbymokie said, chances are, if you go to a local carrier store, they will exchange it for you once they realize there is no physical or water damage to the phone but it still won't turn on.
While this isn't the most honest way to handle it, I can't say I have not done this successfully in the past.

I'll take a shot at it.....

let us know how it goes

dinhhviet said:
let us know how it goes
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Just got the phone back today
They have replaced the "main board". So the phone got a new IMEI...
So my phone is up and kicking again

just send it and say it just died on its own
shut my mouth please, hehehe
Nice to know you got a new device

jigners said:
just send it and say it just died on its own
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Did you real my last post? Just got it back today

Its quite likely you get a replacement, just told them that it suddenly stopped working, if its dead as you say they should get you a new one

[Q] Inspire 4G BRICKED!!! Help!!!

I hope I am not posting where I am not supposed to, but I desperately need help. I am a noob and have managed to brick my inspire, or at least that's my guess. I can still get in to hboot, but when I select recovery, nothing happens. This all started after trying to use the htc boot unlocker. My screen shows the following when in hboot
*** UNLOCKED ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MIROP-0438
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 22 2011,14:28:19
I have tried loading the stock images using the PD98IMG.zip files that I have found throughout the site, but nothing seems to be working. Please help, or if you can point me to someone that can I would greatly appreciate it. I hate to be a pain, but I don't know what else to do.

dalton42503 said:
I hope I am not posting where I am not supposed to, but I desperately need help. I am a noob and have managed to brick my inspire, or at least that's my guess. I can still get in to hboot, but when I select recovery, nothing happens. This all started after trying to use the htc boot unlocker. My screen shows the following when in hboot
*** UNLOCKED ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MIROP-0438
RADIO-26.10.04.03_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 22 2011,14:28:19
I have tried loading the stock images using the PD98IMG.zip files that I have found throughout the site, but nothing seems to be working. Please help, or if you can point me to someone that can I would greatly appreciate it. I hate to be a pain, but I don't know what else to do.
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YOUR PHONE IS NOT BRICKED. The term bricked means that your phone is a useful as a brick, i.e. if you can get into HBOOT, it's not bricked.
Gotta ask though, why did you not use the Hack Kit as its the only reliable method to root, my advice to you sir is when this gets cleared up READ AND EDUCATE YOURSELF before you really do brick your phone.
If you have a SDcard reader, pop out the SDcard and place one of the PD98IMG stock ROMs on your SDcard. From here you can reboot into HBOOT with the sdcard in your phone and HBOOT should pick up the PD98IMG and flash a working stock ROM. From here, you can root with the Hack Kit...
This will help you, read it and do what the stock ROM option...if you can get into HBOOT

I have tried doing that, it says loading image, then parsing, then goes back to the hboot screen, it doesn't say press volume up to update or anything else as I have read in many other posts. Am I doing something wrong? As far as not using the hack kit, I didn't really stumble on that until after it was to late, sure wish I had found it in the first place. Guess if I could just get it back to factory, I would accept that doing this isn't for me and not mess with it again. I am good at following directions, but nothing I have tried seems to work.

dalton42503 said:
I have tried doing that, it says loading image, then parsing, then goes back to the hboot screen, it doesn't say press volume up to update or anything else as I have read in many other posts. Am I doing something wrong? As far as not using the hack kit, I didn't really stumble on that until after it was to late, sure wish I had found it in the first place. Guess if I could just get it back to factory, I would accept that doing this isn't for me and not mess with it again. I am good at following directions, but nothing I have tried seems to work.
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is the file named exactly "PD98IMG.zip"..you may also want to check the hide extension option to be sure its not hiding the .zip because if it is and you renamed it to "PD98IMG.zip" with the hide extension on, the phone will read it as "PD98IMG.zip.zip" and you would get that error.
haha and yeah man, we've all been there...I don't want to discourage you man, rooting is such an awesome experience and the hack kit is a pretty straight forward process, if you do the research and take the time to understand what you're doing, but lets see if we can help you out here first. I had the same issue you're having when I tried to flash a radio (same PD98IMG method you're trying to use) and it turned out to be the hide extension issue.

I had also verified that as well, I went under tools, folder options, view tab, scrolled down to hide extensions for known file types and unchecked... And, everything was correct, just verified to be on the safe side.

dalton42503 said:
I had also verified that as well, I went under tools, folder options, view tab, scrolled down to hide extensions for known file types and unchecked... And, everything was correct, just verified to be on the safe side.
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hmm, so its named PD98IMG.zip caps and everything? If its not working you m ay have to get a stock RUU and run it through fastboot..

This is why you should educate yourself first. You do not need to unlock the bootloader from the HTC dev site. Now you could flash the the stock ruu from the PC and then use the hack kit. Check the stickies in the Inspire general section for more help.
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I understand that I should have been a little more educated first now, but I thought I had everything in order, thats what thinking gets me... I have tried running the stock ruu, but it gives the following error.
ERROR[155]: UNKNOWN ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.
Please get the correct ROM Update Utility and try again.
I did notice the Image version the program shows is on the phone is 3.13.0.0, and it is trying to put 2.47.502.7 on the phone... Is this the problem? If so, whats the solution, I am so lost now its not even funny.... I apologize everyone.

dalton42503 said:
I understand that I should have been a little more educated first now, but I thought I had everything in order, thats what thinking gets me... I have tried running the stock ruu, but it gives the following error.
ERROR[155]: UNKNOWN ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.
Please get the correct ROM Update Utility and try again.
I did notice the Image version the program shows is on the phone is 3.13.0.0, and it is trying to put 2.47.502.7 on the phone... Is this the problem? If so, whats the solution, I am so lost now its not even funny.... I apologize everyone.
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Dalton, lock your bootloader again. Boot into fastboot and plug the phone. You will see fastboot usb at the top. Then plug your phone and open cmd session. Once there type fastboot oem relock. Once that is done, try flashing the .exe file in the HTC site (original GB update), making sure that you have HTC Sync installed.
If that fails, then I would try using the HACK Kit to gain S-OFF and root. You will then be able to revert to stock or flash a custom rom...

Had a similar problem when using aahk my own fault and I took care of it. Long winded, so short of it, are you trying to install through
1. hboot or 2. on the computer using HTC rom update?
I ended up trying 2. But ended up using aahk to finish.
HTC update errored out and the recovery portion would not work, just in a boot loop on HTC logo
This was good news as aahk could take over on USB during that HTC green letters white background.
I'd suggest reading the effen manual run the tool to get it up and going, figure out what you want to do. I've used it to return to stock with s off before go back into roms.
So look at those options know what you want and then power on the phone USB connected and during HTC screen enter your number the kit should take over and give you what you asked it.
That should give you a working rom image.
--will'm
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willm98G97B said:
Had a similar problem when using aahk my own fault and I took care of it. Long winded, so short of it, are you trying to install through
1. hboot or 2. on the computer using HTC rom update?
I ended up trying 2. But ended up using aahk to finish.
HTC update errored out and the recovery portion would not work, just in a boot loop on HTC logo
This was good news as aahk could take over on USB during that HTC green letters white background.
I'd suggest reading the effen manual run the tool to get it up and going, figure out what you want to do. I've used it to return to stock with s off before go back into roms.
So look at those options know what you want and then power on the phone USB connected and during HTC screen enter your number the kit should take over and give you what you asked it.
That should give you a working rom image.
--will'm
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He won´t be able to use the Kit if the bootloader is unlocked. HE MUST RELOCK Bootloader...then run the Kit...It´s worth mentioning that...

True, never ran htc s unlock option.
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Thanks A MILLION!!!
Thank you all for your time, finally got it working again, with stock firmware. Think I may wait a while before messing with this again. I really do appreciate the help, without you all, I would have a nice expensive paper weight....

dalton42503 said:
Thank you all for your time, finally got it working again, with stock firmware. Think I may wait a while before messing with this again. I really do appreciate the help, without you all, I would have a nice expensive paper weight....
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Glad you have it back....yeah you'd better read and make sure what are about to do it and of course what risks are involved before making a move....

Dalton,
I would suggest following glevitan's and willm's assertion of getting s-off and root to use custom roms. Custom roms are WAY better than anything HTC has to offer, and much easier to install, if you have an issue warranty wise, you can always return to stock. Just make sure you know how to flash correctly, search for it and you will find easy instructions, and if memory serves, a youtube video which helped me greatly.

dalton42503 said:
Thank you all for your time, finally got it working again, with stock firmware. Think I may wait a while before messing with this again. I really do appreciate the help, without you all, I would have a nice expensive paper weight....
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Can you tell me the which firmware or send me a link.I have a same problem

If you are using AT&T branded cell then go to the htc.com site and in the support section of the inspire you will find it. Otherwise, you will find stock roms in the general section of this forum
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

glevitan said:
If you are using AT&T branded cell then go to the htc.com site and in the support section of the inspire you will find it. Otherwise, you will find stock roms in the general section of this forum
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA
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I am having a bootloader error with stock ro.(error 140)
How can i fix it

ydnbngl said:
I am having a bootloader error with stock ro.(error 140)
How can i fix it
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if you have unlocked the bootloader then relock it...then run it again.

glevitan said:
if you have unlocked the bootloader then relock it...then run it again.
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It is relocked and ship s-on

[Q] Bootloop after rebooting

Well I've been having this problem for a while, my phone goes into a bootloop whenever I restart it. It shows the white HTC screen, goes black, then the white HTC screen...over and over again.
The only way I have found to get it to boot up normally is when I connect a USB cable to it
But if I remove the cable and reboot, I get the same problem again.
Any ideas? Has anyone had this happen before??

That may be a Hardware issue. They easiest way I can think of is to RUU back to Stock, and Reformat the SD Card. If it still does it, then it may be a Hardware related issue.

CNexus said:
Well I've been having this problem for a while, my phone goes into a bootloop whenever I restart it. It shows the white HTC screen, goes black, then the white HTC screen...over and over again.
The only way I have found to get it to boot up normally is when I connect a USB cable to it
But if I remove the cable and reboot, I get the same problem again.
Any ideas? Has anyone had this happen before??
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I've had that happen a couple times but it was because it was something I did/flashed, I agree with prboy, ruu back and format memory card (save your stuff to the computer first)- I've forgotten to save first a couple times

prboy1969 said:
That may be a Hardware issue. They easiest way I can think of is to RUU back to Stock, and Reformat the SD Card. If it still does it, then it may be a Hardware related issue.
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I'll definitely try that, I don't know if this shed anymore light on it but my sdcard doesn't mount through my phone anymore either...happened around the same time as the restarting thing
But I'll tr and see what happens, if not I'll just take it in to sprint, I know it can't be something I flashed, I've been on stock for a while because of my utility
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I would start by Formatting the SD Card. Then if that doesn't resolve issue. Format the SD Card again, and then RUU. If at that point the issue is still present, it's time to take it in to Sprint. Out of curiosity, are you using a custom Kernel ? Reason I ask is that I've run across something slightly similar after Flashing an Experimental Kernel Dirty. Meaning I did not wipe Cache, or Dalvik before Flashing. Mind you this was a very long time ago, in my HERO days. But I seem to remember it acting sort of like the symptoms you described.

prboy1969 said:
I would start by Formatting the SD Card. Then if that doesn't resolve issue. Format the SD Card again, and then RUU. If at that point the issue is still present, it's time to take it in to Sprint. Out of curiosity, are you using a custom Kernel ? Reason I ask is that I've run across something slightly similar after Flashing an Experimental Kernel Dirty. Meaning I did not wipe Cache, or Dalvik before Flashing. Mind you this was a very long time ago, in my HERO days. But I seem to remember it acting sort of like the symptoms you described.
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Nope, no custom anything. 100% stock 2.2 with temproot, but since I can't reboot its really permroot lol
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Then I would defiantly try what I stated above. See if it can resolve the issue.

prboy1969 said:
Then I would defiantly try what I stated above. See if it can resolve the issue.
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Will do
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Getting the same issues. I've tried ruu through both the exe and pg06 img. Tried factory reset with no luck, in the stock recovery ive wiped everything with no luck also. It's read by fastboot and i can issue commands, flashing through fastboot just gives me a sig verification failure. I've tried every method i've found and none have worked. Happened after downgrading to 2.2. I got temproot and went to permroot to go into this. I used htcdev to unlock the bootloader and it was successful. I cant access my sdcard since flashing the 2.2 ruu reverted it to stock and i cant get into the system to disk drive it. It boots for about 3 seconds then reboots. If any of the mmcblk... commands were mistyped or something was done wrong, how would i go about checking or fixing them if thats even possible? Any help or leads would be amazing.
SPEEDY XF SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot

KiDxNinja said:
Getting the same issues. I've tried ruu through both the exe and pg06 img. Tried factory reset with no luck, in the stock recovery ive wiped everything with no luck also. It's read by fastboot and i can issue commands, flashing through fastboot just gives me a sig verification failure. I've tried every method i've found and none have worked. Happened after downgrading to 2.2. I got temproot and went to permroot to go into this. I used htcdev to unlock the bootloader and it was successful. I cant access my sdcard since flashing the 2.2 ruu reverted it to stock and i cant get into the system to disk drive it. It boots for about 3 seconds then reboots. If any of the mmcblk... commands were mistyped or something was done wrong, how would i go about checking or fixing them if thats even possible? Any help or leads would be amazing.
SPEEDY XF SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
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So at this point your just trying to run the RUU ? Or do you still want to achieve Root ?

prboy1969 said:
So at this point your just trying to run the RUU ? Or do you still want to achieve Root ?
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I had temp root and in between gaining perm root this happened. Root does me no good if I'm boot looped and can't even adb. I'm trying to get the phone to boot. Or read through adb. I can't fast boot any of the partitions either so I'm basically stuck in limbo

KiDxNinja said:
I had temp root and in between gaining perm root this happened. Root does me no good if I'm boot looped and can't even adb. I'm trying to get the phone to boot. Or read through adb. I can't fast boot any of the partitions either so I'm basically stuck in limbo
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Have you tried booting it up while connected to a USB cord? That works for me because my phone will otherwise go into a bootloop whenever I restart it
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KiDxNinja said:
I had temp root and in between gaining perm root this happened. Root does me no good if I'm boot looped and can't even adb. I'm trying to get the phone to boot. Or read through adb. I can't fast boot any of the partitions either so I'm basically stuck in limbo
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Are you trying the PG06IMG , or the RUU.exe ? Have you tried doing the 2.2 RUU.exe through Fastboot ?

prboy1969 said:
Are you trying the PG06IMG , or the RUU.exe ? Have you tried doing the 2.2 RUU.exe through Fastboot ?
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Yes and Yes, read my first post -_-

KiDxNinja said:
Yes and Yes, read my first post -_-
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Must have missed that somehow. My bad . But on to the issue at hand. I'm wondering if maybe your SD Card went wonky. I would remove the SD Card, format it. Load the PG06IMG back onto the Card, reinstall. Then try to flash it. Of course backup your card to the PC first.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

prboy1969 said:
Must have missed that somehow. My bad . But on to the issue at hand. I'm wondering if maybe your SD Card went wonky. I would remove the SD Card, format it. Load the PG06IMG back onto the Card, reinstall. Then try to flash it. Of course backup your card to the PC first.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11
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Tried this with same result. flashing through hboot works for the 2.2 ruu, but im still stuck in the bootloop.
I also tried flashing a custom recovery via hboot, but the pgo6img loads then doesnt ask me if i want to update or not. I have literally no idea where to go or what to check.

KiDxNinja said:
Tried this with same result. flashing through hboot works for the 2.2 ruu, but im still stuck in the bootloop.
I also tried flashing a custom recovery via hboot, but the pgo6img loads then doesnt ask me if i want to update or not. I have literally no idea where to go or what to check.
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Its not pgo6img. Its PG06IMG.zip. its a zero before the 6 not the letter "o". Idk if capitalized letters matter or not but I always capitalize all the letters
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Its not pgo6img. Its PG06IMG.zip. its a zero before the 6 not the letter "o". Idk if capitalized letters matter or not but I always capitalize all the letters
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I was just about to say that, if the name of the file isn't correct, the bootloader won't pick it up.

Yeah i know, i was just too lazy to type it out. I know what im doing as far as general modding and flashing, and I actually managed to fix it. I'm not positive how but I used the unroot back to stock guide for the stock locked bootloader. After flashing it through hboot I tried the 2.3.4 RUU. Still bootlooped but I was at stock with locked bootloader. I then used htcdev to reunlock the bootloader and I was then able to flash partitions through fastboot. I flashed cwm and was able to adb through it. I basically just reran through the rooting phase and gained temproot. From here I redid the steps to engineer hboot and finally received s-off. After this it booted normally. I might be leaving steps out but if anyone needs specifics, just pm me and maybe I can figure it out again for you.
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help with boot loop loop loop
hi
someone can help whit phone?
in summer i restart phone and it stuck in loop htc logo in white over and over agen
till batrtery go down and nothing happen when trying to charg only led was flashing
no to long ago i plug to charger ad phone torn back on, sd card was out
I turn it off put sd card back on phone turn back on, try to software update one and second time it go back to loop agen=[
rand battery down agen and it does not torn back on, to hboot
well it does if i play whit it holding power bottom volume down longer time
speed xe ship s-on
hboot-0.99.0001
radio-1.08.01.0111
emmc-boot
can some one give me step by step instruction?

[SOLVED] Flashing light, no screen...Help appreciated!

Hi All!
Recently i flashed TWRP and Cynogenmod 10.2.1 stable to my HTC Telestra One XL (evita)
I unlocked boot-loader
I successfully rooted
But I shut down once, and when i tried to boot, it got stuck in a boot-loop
Upon many retries, it suddenly wont turn on
when I charge it it only has a flashing red light but it wont even turn on, no screen not buttons; nothing!
And if I plug it in to my PC, the pc keeps sounding the USB Connected sound multiple times over a short period of 30 seconds to 2 minutes and then it gives off multiple shaky beeps
I hope this is enough info to let anyone help out!
Thank You in Advance
EDIT:
when connected to a pc it shows drivers is ready to use but tries to install QHUSB_DLOAD but fails and latest RUU does not detect
Thx again

What is the exact full filename of the ROM zip that you flashed? When a device is showing up as QHSUSB_DLOAD in Windows it usually means it's bricked.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
What is the exact full filename of the ROM zip that you flashed? When a device is showing up as QHSUSB_DLOAD in Windows it usually means it's bricked.
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Just found out:
a friend of mine tried to flash a file named "cm-10.0.0-evita" and it gave off a message saying that this phone is not rooted or missing supersu/ something along those lines
before that he wiped sd card (whole thing)...
and then it went off from there
NOTE: its a phone with mess with, but still want to fix even though its just a side phone we barely use....help appreciated

So does it power on at all?
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timmaaa said:
So does it power on at all?
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nope
when plugged in it only has a red LED that flashes once every once in a while and thats it
pc recognises it but wants to install qhusb_dload (as mentioned) and it just sais no driver found
i am researching and i found something called a "RIFF Box" but unsure if its worth it, plus i dont know where to jtag it (if its possible at all)
PS: hi from sydney!

Al-Dazzlez said:
Just found out:
a friend of mine tried to flash a file named "cm-10.0.0-evita" and it gave off a message saying that this phone is not rooted or missing supersu/ something along those lines
before that he wiped sd card (whole thing)...
and then it went off from there
NOTE: its a phone with mess with, but still want to fix even though its just a side phone we barely use....help appreciated
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How did he try to flash it -_- these vague responses make it very hard to help. Bottom line is you can try pressing and holding power until the light goes off and then power and volume down to get the bootloader up, if that doesn't work you can try the evita jet tool to try to unbrick it. Bricks such as yours are not recoverable 9 times out of 10.

It looks like your only option is to get a jtag repair done. I wouldn't bother trying to do it yourself unless you're a fully experienced electronic engineer or the like. I'm not sure how many jtag repairers there are in Australia but I'm guessing Google should be able to reveal that information. Howdy from Melbourne.
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Hi from Canada!... I just wanted to be part of the greetings.. :laugh:

exad said:
How did he try to flash it -_- these vague responses make it very hard to help. Bottom line is you can try pressing and holding power until the light goes off and then power and volume down to get the bootloader up, if that doesn't work you can try the evita jet tool to try to unbrick it. Bricks such as yours are not recoverable 9 times out of 10.
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he placed the cyanogen mod on the phones sd card, then he wiped sd card, after that he used the install function on twrp it gave him a message that his phone is not rooted and if he would like to root it, he accepted, then it rebooted into twrp, and he tried again to install, same message appeared and then he gave up and shut it down...(sorry for vague terms, please bear with me, still trying to learn the ropes of talking on this forum)

I gotta say, this is all very odd :/ How did he install anything if he wiped the SD card after copying it over? :/ hmmmm In any case, you CAN try he jet tool as per my last post before getting a jtag. You'll need a linux install or Bootable USB stick/CD/DVD though.

My guess is that the only thing he installed was SuperSU. That'd be why it booted straight back into TWRP.
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timmaaa said:
It looks like your only option is to get a jtag repair done. I wouldn't bother trying to do it yourself unless you're a fully experienced electronic engineer or the like. I'm not sure how many jtag repairers there are in Australia but I'm guessing Google should be able to reveal that information. Howdy from Melbourne.
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i researched..nothing..just some videos of people who do it (jtag)in the US and US only......
but still asking 'round the shops wont hurt i guess:laugh:
ill keep ya posted about using that tool you mentioned!
and exad; SUP!
and yeah.. it sounds weird to me too but i mainly play around with stuff like the galaxy series samsung's so the htc stuff is still new...and i have to admit...i am hating it so far.... but still experience cant hurt :laugh:

Hi guys!
im back
I JTAG'd the phone overseas, and it came back, surely enough, working, but now another problem arises,
the guy apparently unlocked the bootloader, S-Off, and installed CM with android 4.3.1. the phone boots, everything is well, but for times from 10 seconds to minutes of usage it just turns off, the Hboot shows
***tampered***
***relocked***
any idea wth is wrong with it now?
it does not reboot from power menu, and does not do anything really since I cant keep it on for more than a few minutes at most. I cannot keep it on long enough to unlock the bootlaoder anymore, and I cannot boot into TWRP (as the guy told me he put it on)
da hell do I Do now? any help appreciated

Try an RUU, any Evita RUU is fine if you have s-off.
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timmaaa said:
Try an RUU, any Evita RUU is fine if you have s-off.
Sent from my Evita
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Thank you, tried but it did not pick up, but:
UPDATE:
I booted into teamwin, and flashed a CM11snapshot (latest one) everything seems fine so far (after 20 million dalvik and cache and factory restores) but now i am waiting for the problem to arise again, if not, ill have one problem left to fix....the back button does not work....
and now how the hell do i use an RUU on a custom frimware, ? (used it once on this phone but using a stock rom)
thanks again for your time timmaaa, seriously appreciated

Al-Dazzlez said:
Thank you, tried but it did not pick up, but:
UPDATE:
I booted into teamwin, and flashed a CM11snapshot (latest one) everything seems fine so far (after 20 million dalvik and cache and factory restores) but now i am waiting for the problem to arise again, if not, ill have one problem left to fix....the back button does not work....
and now how the hell do i use an RUU on a custom frimware, ? (used it once on this phone but using a stock rom)
thanks again for your time timmaaa, seriously appreciated
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There's only one way to run an RUU, and that's to connect your phone and initiate the program in Windows. You're s-off so all security checks are disabled.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
There's only one way to run an RUU, and that's to connect your phone and initiate the program in Windows. You're s-off so all security checks are disabled.
Sent from my Evita
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I Just ran one, Unlocked bootloader, on Cm11 snapshot after re-root and all that crap done, should be alright now

[Q] Cannot soff, devunlock or anything else

Hi guys!
First of all thank you for reading.
I'm probably in my 3rd day lurking around every possible forum and thread looking for an answer to my similar problem but have yet to find one.
I used to have a sensation xe but I kinda smashed the digitizer to bits. before that the was battery swollen and the back case pretty damaged (it survived a 120 kph gps reading of an rc car before going end over end across a parking lot). Meanwhile I got an Htc One, which is superb and I kinda forgot about the old gal.
A few days back I found a guy selling a sensation for spares (the mobo was fried on his) so I just bought that (for 20 euros) and figured all I needed to to was a mobo transplant and then have a nice almost new sensation.
But obviously the digitizer is not calibrated. I found the forum with the tutorial on that but it requires super CID and Soff. Cannot do either of them.
Since the mobo has been replaced the devunlock didn't work. Cannot, for the love of me succeed with the junopunutbear soff with the wire trick. Tried it on a ubuntu live cd, all goes well up until the wire trick. On a side note, I design and build 3d printers for a living, I might be a noob in the android department but that's about it. Even tried an automatic timed relay to do the two wire taps and still nothing. Obviously, it's not working on windows, I found the kgs1992 tool which requires a version of controlbear for windows which I cannot find (found one but it doesn't recognise it when I put it in the tools folder).
tl;dr
Cannot devunlock, cannot soff, nothing. Could I possibly try changing the IMEI so that i can maybe just maybe devunlock it first? I tried putting the mobo back in the old phone, still powered up but didn't recognize the token. I'm pretty much stuck right now.
Any help would be highly appreciated and if you read the whole thing, kudos to you for standing my chatter !

i sent you a pm
also you can follow this guide which avoids wire trick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751187

rzr86 said:
i sent you a pm
also you can follow this guide which avoids wire trick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751187
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Hi mate!
Thank you so much for your reply!
Unfortunately, rumrunnes told me to f myself lol, an error about not finding an unsecure kernel I guess, too frustrated to remember what the error was after finally finding a piece of software which seemed to do something.
Will try with the link you sent me and will come back with results!

elktw said:
Hi mate!
Thank you so much for your reply!
Unfortunately, rumrunnes told me to f myself lol, an error about not finding an unsecure kernel I guess, too frustrated to remember what the error was after finally finding a piece of software which seemed to do something.
Will try with the link you sent me and will come back with results!
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did it tell you to be rooted first?

rzr86 said:
did it tell you to be rooted first?
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That it did, but I was under the assumption (well all the guides I read) that you need to be devunlocked in order to root it. which I can't do. Am I missing something or is this a vicious circle ?

elktw said:
That it did, but I was under the assumption (well all the guides I read) that you need to be devunlocked in order to root it. which I can't do. Am I missing something or is this a vicious circle ?
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just use the temproot.bat file from juopunutbear thread
then run rumrunner again
it is mentioning also in rumrunner thread

Stuck on confirm Unlock bootloader
Ok, my phone got really messed up with TWRP format bug.
Since then, I have tried RUU, different recoveries and finally got stuck with Relocked, S-ON, no ROM, no ADB on my Sensation.
When i try to unlock via Unlock_code.bit i used earlier i am able to send it via fastboot to phone where it prompts me for a choice Yes/No.
And here is funny part.
I can select No with my power button which reboots my phone and shows white screen with bootloader after it since there is nothing on it.
But, when i press Volume up and select Yes option and Power button to confirm it, nothing happens. Actually it freezes phone and i have nothing else left to do except pulling out battery and booting to bootloader.
Since it is some kind of alive, I'm sure there is some way to revive it but I guess I'm kinda not seeing right steps to unlock it, s-off again, and custom recovery and wait for twrp team or shantur to find a sollution to fix corrupted partitions.
Can you help me with unlocking?
What logs do you need?

culler said:
Ok, my phone got really messed up with TWRP format bug.
Since then, I have tried RUU, different recoveries and finally got stuck with Relocked, S-ON, no ROM, no ADB on my Sensation.
When i try to unlock via Unlock_code.bit i used earlier i am able to send it via fastboot to phone where it prompts me for a choice Yes/No.
And here is funny part.
I can select No with my power button which reboots my phone and shows white screen with bootloader after it since there is nothing on it.
But, when i press Volume up and select Yes option and Power button to confirm it, nothing happens. Actually it freezes phone and i have nothing else left to do except pulling out battery and booting to bootloader.
Since it is some kind of alive, I'm sure there is some way to revive it but I guess I'm kinda not seeing right steps to unlock it, s-off again, and custom recovery and wait for twrp team or shantur to find a sollution to fix corrupted partitions.
Can you help me with unlocking?
What logs do you need?
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Well, i can certainly try and tell you what I did. Basically listen to the wonderful advice of @rzr86. Assuming you have tried many tools, you probably have the temproot utility. I just used that and Rumrunners, no wire trick no nothing, those were pretty straightforward and I finally managed to soff and supercid it. Afterwards I just installed 4ext recovery and was finally able to install whatever custom rom I wanted.
My problem however is now a different one. Cannot calibrate the touchscreen using the 58diag file. I'm using cgmod11 and if I run the calibration file, it gets stuck in bootloader. Standard RUU and it does nothing at all for the touchscreen. I'm pretty much stuck and out of ideas.
Aaaanyway, try rumrunners with temproot and get back to me with the results !

elktw said:
Well, i can certainly try and tell you what I did. Basically listen to the wonderful advice of @rzr86. Assuming you have tried many tools, you probably have the temproot utility. I just used that and Rumrunners, no wire trick no nothing, those were pretty straightforward and I finally managed to soff and supercid it. Afterwards I just installed 4ext recovery and was finally able to install whatever custom rom I wanted.
My problem however is now a different one. Cannot calibrate the touchscreen using the 58diag file. I'm using cgmod11 and if I run the calibration file, it gets stuck in bootloader. Standard RUU and it does nothing at all for the touchscreen. I'm pretty much stuck and out of ideas.
Aaaanyway, try rumrunners with temproot and get back to me with the results !
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Did you had access to rom and adb to run Rumrunners utility? I have only access to bootloader and when i try to run it it hangs waiting for ADB.
Also, I'm stuck on unlock bootloader screen so probably have corrupted memory because I can't unlock it. :/

culler said:
Did you had access to rom and adb to run Rumrunners utility? I have only access to bootloader and when i try to run it it hangs waiting for ADB.
Also, I'm stuck on unlock bootloader screen so probably have corrupted memory because I can't unlock it. :/
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do you have adb/fastboot installed?
did you enable usb debugging mode from settings?
use usb 2.0 ports not 3.0
also what windows OS do you have?

rzr86 said:
do you have adb/fastboot installed?
did you enable usb debugging mode from settings?
use usb 2.0 ports not 3.0
also what windows OS do you have?
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I'm on Windows 8.1 64-bit, but also tried Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 13.04 both 32 and 64bit.
I also tried both USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports.
Like i said, I cant enable USB debugging mode in settings since i don't have ROM now, device is empty, except bootloader without recovery and I can't find way to install since I'm Relocked and S-on.

culler said:
I'm on Windows 8.1 64-bit, but also tried Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 13.04 both 32 and 64bit.
I also tried both USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports.
Like i said, I cant enable USB debugging mode in settings since i don't have ROM now, device is empty, except bootloader without recovery and I can't find way to install since I'm Relocked and S-on.
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S-OFF requires a working rom so you can't use S-OFF method
with windows 8.1 you will face connectivity issues
type in search box how to set up adb/fastboot in windows 8 but the point is that you don't have enabled usb debugging mode
so i am not sure if you will have any success
by the way what version of TWRP did you flash?
the latest? (2.7.0)

I was using TWRP 2.7.0.0 which corrupted my partitions so i tried various recoveries to fix the situation without success.
So I tried to RUU and it also failed.
Somewhere along the way of trying to revive my phone, i used fastboot oem lock and now i somehow have S-ON device which is RELOCKED and I have no custom recovery. I can't even access HTC recovery now.
When i try fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin from HTCDev it prompts me with screen to choose YES to unlock or NO to unlock.
When i choose YES with Volume button and press Power button to confirm, device freezes and stays like that forever, or until I remove battery.
Selecting no reboots device and brings me back to bootloader.
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.29.0000
RADIO-11.24A.3504.31_M
OpenADSP-v05.6.0.2226.00.0418
eMMC-boot
Mar 2 2012,18:14:34

culler said:
I was using TWRP 2.7.0.0 which corrupted my partitions so i tried various recoveries to fix the situation without success.
So I tried to RUU and it also failed.
Somewhere along the way of trying to revive my phone, i used fastboot oem lock and now i somehow have S-ON device which is RELOCKED and I have no custom recovery. I can't even access HTC recovery now.
When i try fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin from HTCDev it prompts me with screen to choose YES to unlock or NO to unlock.
When i choose YES with Volume button and press Power button to confirm, device freezes and stays like that forever, or until I remove battery.
Selecting no reboots device and brings me back to bootloader.
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.29.0000
RADIO-11.24A.3504.31_M
OpenADSP-v05.6.0.2226.00.0418
eMMC-boot
Mar 2 2012,18:14:34
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i thibk you are stuck mate unfortunately
did you try unbricking project or jtag method?

rzr86 said:
i thibk you are stuck mate unfortunately
did you try unbricking project or jtag method?
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I tried unbricking project but it hangs on start with connecting to device or waiting for device.
As I understood, it needs to access ADB which i cant succeed.
I dont have JTAG equipment so it goes to some service to see if they could repair it.
It's such a great device, i don't want to lose it so soon