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[Q] Is my phone bricked by flashing Shipped ROM

#CASE SOLVED#
Hi,
I was using CWM7 and then i tried to flash my phone with shipped custom ROM that was listed on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506&page=37
I chose this version "RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed"
I followed all the procedure and all the process was going right. However, when the phone start to rebooting, it stuck at HTC logo screen for almost half an hour.
I tried the (up) (down) (power) procedure and "adb reboot recovery" but none worked. So i pulled off the battery and try to restart it. However, it stopped again at HTC log screen.
I can still access my recovery, so is there anything that I can still try to do?
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-3882.10.08.04_M
NB: this info might useful; when i went to the recovery and connect the usb it mention "HBOOT USB PLUG"
Any help or hint will be really appreciated...

zul.zulkarnaen said:
Hi,
I was using CWM7 and then i tried to flash my phone with shipped custom ROM that was listed on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506&page=37
I chose this version "RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed"
I followed all the procedure and all the process was going right. However, when the phone start to rebooting, it stuck at HTC logo screen for almost half an hour.
I tried the (up) (down) (power) procedure and "adb reboot recovery" but none worked. So i pulled off the battery and try to restart it. Alas, it stopped again at HTC log screen.
I can still access my recovery, so is there anything that I can still try to do?
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-3882.10.08.04_M
NB: this info might useful; when i went to the recovery and connect the usb it mention "HBOOT USB PLUG"
Any help or hint will be really appreciated...
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With the latest Sense 3.0 RUU, the ROM requires that the corresponding HBOOT 2.00.0002 get flashed too in order to boot properly. Since you have S-OFF via Revolutionary, the Revolutionary HBOOT 6.98.1002 is preventing the RUU from overwriting the it, therefore you have ended up with a ROM / HBOOT mismatch and that is why the ROM hangs at the HTC screen.
IMO you would be better off sticking with custom ROMs that have implemented Sense 3.0/3.5 and keeping S-OFF.
From this point you probably need to reinstall ClockworkMod recovery from FASTBOOT mode and then you can restore you nandroid backup (you did make a backup before you attempted this, right?) to get back to CM 7

I did make a backup. But right now, when I choose recovery I can only goes to the stocked recovery. My CWM recovery is lost after the flashing. And when I navigate through the stocked recovery, I can't find a way to restore my last ROM.

zul.zulkarnaen said:
I did make a backup. But right now, when I choose recovery I can only goes to the stocked recovery. My CWM recovery is lost after the flashing. And when I navigate through the stocked recovery, I can't find a way to restore my last ROM.
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Yes I understand that CWM is no longer there. I said you need to reinstall it using Fastboot.
Look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14693680

Oh, I didnt know that there's manual process, I only knew the one that use the web. OK, I'll try it

SOLVED. Thanks a lot..

zul.zulkarnaen said:
SOLVED. Thanks a lot..
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NP. Glad to help. I noticed you updated your first post with SOLVED. It would also help if you modified the Title of your first post and "SOLVED" to it also. That way when others are browsing the threads, they know that a solution is in the discussion.

Can't get into recovery (Revolutionary)

Hi All.
I'm having a problem with what appears to be Recovery mode in Revolutionary.
The Desire S has been rooted and S-Off. I then flashed Android Revolution 7(Mike1986).
As I'm about to sell the phone, wanted to do a factory reset, but this restarts the phone and gets stuck on the HTC logo. So I figured I'd manually flash a new ROM instead. So I go into bootloader, but when I get to the menu and select Recovery, again, it gets stuck at an HTC logo.
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-38.03.02.11_M
eMMC-boot
Any suggestions?

white43 said:
Hi All.
I'm having a problem with what appears to be Recovery mode in Revolutionary.
The Desire S has been rooted and S-Off. I then flashed Android Revolution 7(Mike1986).
As I'm about to sell the phone, wanted to do a factory reset, but this restarts the phone and gets stuck on the HTC logo. So I figured I'd manually flash a new ROM instead. So I go into bootloader, but when I get to the menu and select Recovery, again, it gets stuck at an HTC logo.
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-38.03.02.11_M
eMMC-boot
Any suggestions?
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You need to flash an eng-hboot first before you can flash an RUU to go back to stock.
All details in my signature and the index thread.
Read the forum and index thread before doing anything

Oh, OK - I'm not that bothered about putting it back to stock firmware. I just wondered why Revolutionary doesn't seem to be working.
Presumably I just need to put PG88IMG.zip into the root of the SD card?

white43 said:
Hi All.
I'm having a problem with what appears to be Recovery mode in Revolutionary.
The Desire S has been rooted and S-Off. I then flashed Android Revolution 7(Mike1986).
As I'm about to sell the phone, wanted to do a factory reset, but this restarts the phone and gets stuck on the HTC logo. So I figured I'd manually flash a new ROM instead. So I go into bootloader, but when I get to the menu and select Recovery, again, it gets stuck at an HTC logo.
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-38.03.02.11_M
eMMC-boot
Any suggestions?
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By the way did you install any recovery like cwm or 4ext?
Sent by my fingers to your head.

Um.....I'm fairly sure it was CWM, but don't hold me to that. Whatever it was, it allowed me to install Android Revolution 7.
I can't update HBOOT - Revolutionary keeps bypassing it?????

white43 said:
Um.....I'm fairly sure it was CWM, but don't hold me to that. Whatever it was, it allowed me to install Android Revolution 7.
I can't update HBOOT - Revolutionary keeps bypassing it?????
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Android Revolution 7??? On the Desire S...? Where'd you get that from? It's not officially supported by the ARHD team!!

Now I'm absolutely confused where the hell I got that from!!!
I think the best course of action is to get the phone back into shape - so I need to flash the HBOOT back and presumably the recovery back if possible. Revolutionary is preventing me from flashing a new Hboot. Any ideas?
EDIT : Right. Using ADB, I've managed to re-flash CWM and now it works. But can someone advise on getting HBoot to flash?

Loll fire the dd command to flash hboot.
It is fine from adb.
See in the thread of my signature for the dd commands
Swyped from my Desire S waiting for Kernel 3, WAKE UP HTC

Just wanted to thanks everyone for their replies. At the moment I'm using a custom rom, with CWM still installed. I haven't sold it on yet, as the Sensation XE I bought to replace it, died within 24 hours! D'oh!!!

white43 said:
Just wanted to thanks everyone for their replies. At the moment I'm using a custom rom, with CWM still installed. I haven't sold it on yet, as the Sensation XE I bought to replace it, died within 24 hours! D'oh!!!
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LoL
So I'm guessing you'll have to stick around just a little longer!

Dude switch to 4ext touch nonetheless
It's awesome...
Swyped from my Desire S waiting for Kernel 3, WAKE UP HTC

[Q] HTC Sensation won't boot past HTC screen

New to development... (hence the problems!!)
Followed online guide through HTCDEV to unlock HTC Sensation. Rooted phone and was trying out some custom ROMs which I managed with no major problems albeit I could not get the WiFi to connect (kept giving error message) i assumed this was a Custom ROM issue so changed to another.
I had made Nandroid back-up, which worked fine on the first restore attempt. unfortunately, now it just says MD5 mismatch so I cannot restore to my original working ROM.
Problem now is that I cannot get any of the ROMs I flash to boot past the White HTC screen. Advice on where to go from here much appreciated?
CWM reads:
Pyramid PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
eMMC-boot
Jan 13 2012, 17:33:34

gw0tt said:
New to development... (hence the problems!!)
Followed online guide through HTCDEV to unlock HTC Sensation. Rooted phone and was trying out some custom ROMs which I managed with no major problems albeit I could not get the WiFi to connect (kept giving error message) i assumed this was a Custom ROM issue so changed to another.
I had made Nandroid back-up, which worked fine on the first restore attempt. unfortunately, now it just says MD5 mismatch so I cannot restore to my original working ROM.
Problem now is that I cannot get any of the ROMs I flash to boot past the White HTC screen. Advice on where to go from here much appreciated?
CWM reads:
Pyramid PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
eMMC-boot
Jan 13 2012, 17:33:34
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Hi,
Did you change the name of the nandroid backup?
If so,you must leave NO GAPS in it...
Check THIS THREAD

Thanks for the reply Malybru...
The thread lloks great and I'm sure now that as my phone has been unlocked through HTCDev and remains S-On that the Boot.img is the issue. Only snag is that now that I cannot get the phone to boot, I cannot connect it through USB to the computer to Flash the boot.image across. As I previously mentioned, I cannot get the Nandroid backup option working (I didn't change the name?) so I cannot seem to get out of my 'bricked' state!!
Any help greatly appreciated...

gw0tt said:
Thanks for the reply Malybru...
The thread lloks great and I'm sure now that as my phone has been unlocked through HTCDev and remains S-On that the Boot.img is the issue. Only snag is that now that I cannot get the phone to boot, I cannot connect it through USB to the computer to Flash the boot.image across. As I previously mentioned, I cannot get the Nandroid backup option working (I didn't change the name?) so I cannot seem to get out of my 'bricked' state!!
Any help greatly appreciated...
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Hi,
Try to install 4EXT recovery from HERE

And when you have installed 4ext then remember to go to "tools" and enable "smartflash" every time you flash a rom. As it says in the guide.. Good luck..

NO joy i'm afraid - I cannot seem to get 4Ext onto the phone. It will happily open HBoot and CWM but no amount of trying allows me to get further

gw0tt said:
NO joy i'm afraid - I cannot seem to get 4Ext onto the phone. It will happily open HBoot and CWM but no amount of trying allows me to get further
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In your OP you get wifi errors because of kernel not being flashed as you are S-ON (HTCDEV unlock only unlocks certain partitions) and your booting issues seems to be coming from a boot.img/kernel related problem so my advice would be to S-OFF and use 4EXT recovery to flash another ROM and that should sort it (make sure to double check MD5 CheckSum of whatever ROM you are flashing!)

gw0tt said:
NO joy i'm afraid - I cannot seem to get 4Ext onto the phone. It will happily open HBoot and CWM but no amount of trying allows me to get further
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Hi,
I am sorry,but I am out of ideas.
Can you please post your problem,and all that you have tried and all the details of your phone HERE
Maybe someone else might have some idea.

Bootloader still reads:
Pyramid PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
eMMC-boot
Jan 13 2012, 17:33:34
If I try to switch on phone it simply will not go past the initial white screen with the green HTC logo.
When I open in boatloader it goes through a cycle of checking SD card, loading image etc - at one point it states no image or wrong image and the parsing PG58IMG
Can I still S-Off and transfer 4Ext to the phone with this functionality and if so, could you please explain how. Obviously I can flash Zips from SD Card?

gw0tt said:
Bootloader still reads:
Pyramid PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
eMMC-boot
Jan 13 2012, 17:33:34
If I try to switch on phone it simply will not go past the initial white screen with the green HTC logo.
When I open in boatloader it goes through a cycle of checking SD card, loading image etc - at one point it states no image or wrong image and the parsing PG58IMG
Can I still S-Off and transfer 4Ext to the phone with this functionality and if so, could you please explain how. Obviously I can flash Zips from SD Card?
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Hi,
Look HERE

Firstly, thankyou for your advice. However, unless I'm missing something (highly likely!!) it appears that to S-Off I will need to connect the phone through USB which does not recognise it?

Also the HTC Sensation opens for HBoot version does not include 1.27.0000 on the beta key generator?

After doing image CRC the boot loader now reads:
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT 1.27.0000
RADIO-11.23.3504.07_M2
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
eMMC-boot
SD Checking...
loading... PG58DIAG.Zip
No Image!
loading... PG58DIAG.nbh
No Image or wrong image!
loading... PG58IMG.zip
Not sure if that sheds anymore light for anyone?

gw0tt said:
After doing image CRC the boot loader now reads:
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT 1.27.0000
RADIO-11.23.3504.07_M2
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
eMMC-boot
SD Checking...
loading... PG58DIAG.Zip
No Image!
loading... PG58DIAG.nbh
No Image or wrong image!
loading... PG58IMG.zip
Not sure if that sheds anymore light for anyone?
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as long as you are SON ..you cant flash firmware
now for ppl with htc-dev unlocked bootloader and S-ON ..the traditional way of flashing wont work
you need to do one extra step (if the step missed ..either the rom doesnt boot up or you will have wifi error)
there is a perfectly awesome guide on how to properly flash custom roms in your case
which malybru mentioned it in the second post itself of the same thread
which you are keep on ignoring and asking for more answers (which has been answered ages ago )
now read the thread ..understand it and flash the rom accordingly

I'm getting there slowly after the helpful nudge!! 4Ext flashed and smartflash enabled - trying to flash android rev HD as suggested but still not having much luck (still won't boot past HTC screen)
i did format the SD card previously following a previous troubleshooting thread (bad idea no doubt!!)
Could it be to do with the PG58img.zip- when bootloader opens it still says wrong image?

gw0tt said:
I'm getting there slowly after the helpful nudge!! 4Ext flashed and smartflash enabled - trying to flash android rev HD as suggested but still not having much luck (still won't boot past HTC screen)
i did format the SD card previously following a previous troubleshooting thread (bad idea no doubt!!)
Could it be to do with the PG58img.zip- when bootloader opens it still says wrong image?
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Hi,
Have you still got PG58IMG.zip on your sd card?
If so, delete it.

Sorted!!!
Many Thanks to all who have posted on this thread. Successfully solved the issues and thankfully phone works as a phone on And Rev HD. I just need to rectify the WIFI error when I get a chance. Any hints to an easy guide would be much appreciated. Also, any advice on the best custom ROM to use; I appreciate theres an element of personal choice but i'm after one which will allow me to maxmise the potential of the device in terms of speed without ruining battery life too much?
Thanks

gw0tt said:
Many Thanks to all who have posted on this thread. Successfully solved the issues and thankfully phone works as a phone on And Rev HD. I just need to rectify the WIFI error when I get a chance. Any hints to an easy guide would be much appreciated. Also, any advice on the best custom ROM to use; I appreciate theres an element of personal choice but i'm after one which will allow me to maxmise the potential of the device in terms of speed without ruining battery life too much?
Thanks
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Hi,
If you manage to sort a problem,could you please share what you did,so that others may benefit.

Solution
WiFi now working. I followed the guide suggested for me by Malybru at the start of this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861 I flashed 4Ext recovery instead of CWM. Then Android Rev Supawipe followed by Android Rev HD ROM. All exactly as advertised on the guide by using ADB. Initially WiFi wasn't working but I then flashed CM9 along with separately flashing the boot.img, again using ADB. All works perfectly now. Just follow the guide exactly and you should be fine. The main problem I had was assuming that because the phone did nothing when you connected the USB cable that connecting ADB wouldn't work. Don't think - just follow the guide!! Many Thanks All

Never ending bootloop after CM10? A little special case perhaps :/

Never ending bootloop after CM10?
Hello guys. I'm not panicking TOO much because I trust you guys know how to fix this...hopefully : (
I woke up today and thought I'd try out CM10. I downloaded the ROM and did everything as I normally would and flashed it, then attempted to flash a GAPPS but it error'd out.. weird. I booted into CM10 just fine without any errors but when I plugged in my phone to transfer over a new JBapps my phone wasn't recognizable by my PC. I thought I'd just install a ROM that would allow my phone to be recognized (So I could transfer the Jbapps) so I installed CleanRom 4.5 and while it was installing I went to take a shower. I came back and it was still booting up and I immediately thought "uh oh"
So this leaves me here now with my phone stuck booting up and shutting itself down... it won't stay off either. I tried holding Power+Volume Down and it just keeps turning on and turning off. So getting into recovery is a toughy...
Any way to fix this? Thanks guys. appreciate it
EDIT: I was playing around trying every possible button combination and just holding down Volume button seemed to work. I'm now in the White screen where it allows me to FastBoot, Recovery, Factory Reset, etc.
What can I do from here? thanks... I'm still kind of new to this : )

Reboot into recovery (use volume keys to scroll and press power button to select), factory reset, then install.
If that doesn't work, did you update to 2.20 stock at all?

rohan32 said:
Reboot into recovery (use volume keys to scroll and press power button to select), factory reset, then install.
If that doesn't work, did you update to 2.20 stock at all?
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Factory Reset results in bootloop. This is what I see on my screen right now.
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.09. 0000
RADIO-0.16a 32.09.06
OpenDSP-v25.1.0.32.0405
eMMC-boot
I do not believe I updated to 2.20.
EDIT:
I think I can fix it myself if someone points me in the direction of a good guide to Unbrick the phone for the HTC One XL, does anyone know of a good way?

Can u get into recovery?
Sent from my HTC One X

From bootloader select recovery once in recovery factory reset then wipe /system then reinstall CM10 boot once then enter back into recovery and reflash gapps oh and redownload gapps the one you have might be corrupted or something.
As for the usb not mounting under CM10 that is a known issue and it can be fixed by manually installing the windows driver in device manager. When you plug your phone and mount it to windows you will get windows trying to install some HTC MTP driver and then it will fail. Go into device manager find that driver then select update driver, browse computer for driver, then let me pick from a list of device drivers, select disk drive and hit finish. This will let you mount your phone in windows.

I am having an issue similiar to the endless boot too, but mine is also unmounted. =( I am pretty new at all this and i was in the process of uninstalling king_kang and was going to just restore factory. So I did that and then I had made a backup before i instaled it, so I tried to instal that and for some reason after i did when my phone was booting back up it just stopped and rebooted again. Thats when this all started =[
any help anyone could give me would be appriciated or point me into a direction to look for answers...there is so much info on these forums and I have been combing through for hours ...
I still have TWRP 2.3.1 flashed and ...boot oader looks like this:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012,14:36:28

KDoane said:
I am having an issue similiar to the endless boot too, but mine is also unmounted. =( I am pretty new at all this and i was in the process of uninstalling king_kang and was going to just restore factory. So I did that and then I had made a backup before i instaled it, so I tried to instal that and for some reason after i did when my phone was booting back up it just stopped and rebooted again. Thats when this all started =[
any help anyone could give me would be appriciated or point me into a direction to look for answers...there is so much info on these forums and I have been combing through for hours ...
I still have TWRP 2.3.1 flashed and ...boot oader looks like this:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012,14:36:28
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Go find a stock ROM and flash it, just because you factory reset doesn't mean that your phone reverts back to the stock rom.
Flash it like you would any other rom. but make sure you wipe system/cache/dalvik.

KDoane said:
I am having an issue similiar to the endless boot too, but mine is also unmounted. =( I am pretty new at all this and i was in the process of uninstalling king_kang and was going to just restore factory. So I did that and then I had made a backup before i instaled it, so I tried to instal that and for some reason after i did when my phone was booting back up it just stopped and rebooted again. Thats when this all started =[
any help anyone could give me would be appriciated or point me into a direction to look for answers...there is so much info on these forums and I have been combing through for hours ...
I still have TWRP 2.3.1 flashed and ...boot oader looks like this:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012,14:36:28
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You're on HBOOT 1.14. You need to fastboot flash boot boot.img after you flash a new rom. You can find boot.img by unzipping the rom.

Hey thank you guys for the responses. I am really stuck, LoL. I am really just learning about the modding and unlocking of phones. I have done quite a bit of reading about it and decided it wasn't going to learn anymore w/o playing with it. I guess i was wrong tho =]. I will try your suggestions tomorrow, and I am confident that I am still about to do something to fix it and its not "bricked". I know that when I hooked it up to my PC HTCSync recognized it and popped up as did windows driver installer, which was weird because I made sure to install the drivers before i went on this little adventure. Also, i am able to get the the Bootloader menu and pop into Recovery, the only thing that is worrisome is that once I am in Recovery (TWRP) I can not access the SIM data, i think. When I try to clear the Caches and System I get a not mounted error =\.
Anyways, once again, I really appriciate the feed back and tomorrow when I try your suggestions I'll post my results.. =]

Yea man a boot loop is good!! Well I mean its not fantastic, but better than trying to turn it on and just seeing your reflection! That's an easy fix :thumbup:
Sent from my One X using Tapatalk 2

[Q] Can't factory restore

Hello
Around a year ago, I began to try and get to the position where I could install a non-O2 ROM on my Sensation XE. It was the first time I had attempted such a thing. After carefully following a number of tutorials on xda-developers, I got an error that I was unable to resolve; no amount of google searches came up with a solution that worked. So I began to undo various changed that I had made up until that point and the phone has been fine.
Today I tried to factory reset the device, including wiping the SD card. Before the wipe, I backed up ONLY the documents/photos/media folders on the SD card.
Upon first try, the SD card was wiped, however the device was in a non-restored state. I instructed a restore again, and this time I got stuck in a bootloader loop, where I was unable to get out of the bootloader.
Taking the battery out/putting back in/powering on got me back into the operating system, but still with no restore taken place.
If I repeat the instruction to restore, I end up back at the bootloader. Factory Restore/Recover options in the bootloader have no effect.
Here is what the bootloader says:
Sensation XE - O2 UK
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
RADIO-11.23.3504.07_M2
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
eMMC-boot
Jan 13, 2012, 17:33:34
FASTBOOT USB:
VOL UP...
VOL DOWN...
POWER...
BOOTLOADER
REBOOT
REBOOT BOOTLOADER
POWER DOWN
---------------------
SLECTING BOOTLOADER THEN GIVES OPTIONS:
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
---------------------------------------
I have attached grabs of all the software versions I'm running.
So the phone itself works fine; I just can't get it to factory restore. I am guessing I have at some point, wiped the required data necessary for the restore to take place, but I have no idea if I am right, and if I am right, how on earth I go about fixing it!
Any help/advice would be gratefully received.

Have u tried changing the hboot maybe to hboot 1.29 cz wen u change the hboot it wipes everything
sent by v.konvict

v.konvict said:
Have u tried changing the hboot maybe to hboot 1.29 cz wen u change the hboot it wipes everything
sent by v.konvict
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Hey. Sorry, do you mean did I try that before and that may be what has caused the issue, or do you mean I should now try and change the hboot version, as that may help?

oojafink said:
Hey. Sorry, do you mean did I try that before and that may be what has caused the issue, or do you mean I should now try and change the hboot version, as that may help?
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Am saying you could try it now maybe it could help
sent by v.konvict

According to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27019794&postcount=2 I need to S-OFF before updating HBOOT, and it's the S-OFF part that I was unable to do last time because during the process I got the error that stopped me from progressing any further.

oojafink said:
According to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27019794&postcount=2 I need to S-OFF before updating HBOOT, and it's the S-OFF part that I was unable to do last time because during the process I got the error that stopped me from progressing any further.
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i suggest to run a ruu.exe
or unlock the bootloader again and flash any rom from recovery(since you are on S-ON use 4ext recovery)
by the way don't search on sensation xl forums
they are completely different devices

Well I only had to unlocked the bootloader again, and the device successfully performed a Factory Restore
I have no intention of carrying on, so this thread can be closed/forgotten.
Thanks for the help!