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N00b in need of help. Lock Bootloader?!

Hi,
I've posted a thread or two on here but I cant get any proper help or instructions to help me out
Basically, my phone has its boot loader unlocked (lock symbol shows up) and I have tried all methods to lock it but nothing works.
I cant boot the phone into recovery, and drivers arent very coperative either
I need help! ... I'm planning on selling my phone ,so need to restore it asap.
The problem started when I first bought the phone, it wouldnt update or reboot, so I tried a one click root, it unlocked the bootloader and everything looked fine. UNTIL, an OTA update came along, I applied it, but when my phone came to restart it was stuck on the google logo. I cant even update anymore
Pleease could someone help this n00b out? Really appreciated
Thanks!

Read. No seriously, these forums are chockful of help threads and guides on how to root your phone, install a custom recovery, fix your phone when it's stuck.
Since you want to go back to stock, I'll give you a hint...
1) Unlock bootloader using fastboot (DONE!)
2) Flash custom recovery using fastboot
3) Wipe data/factory reset in custom recovery
4) Install Gingerbread 2.3.6 in custom recovery
5) Lock bootloader using fastboot
Edit: If you're having trouble getting your phone to be recognized in fastboot mode, use the PDANet drivers for Windows. Usually that does it.

Thanks for the reply.
Trust me, I've read around this forum a lot! I've tried the drivers with PDA net but still nothing works. The drivers (adb I think) aren't recognised so can't get anywhere.
I get easily lost with the guides. I don't think they're newbie friendly. I .e. where am I supposed to type 'fastboot oem lock'?
Btw I have no custom rom installed ( I don't think) and when I downloaded the root checker from the market, my phone is recognised as not being rooted (even though I can't apply updates :/ )
I think main thing is that my phone isn't recognised in fastboot mode....

soulja786 said:
Thanks for the reply.
Trust me, I've read around this forum a lot! I've tried the drivers with PDA net but still nothing works. The drivers (adb I think) aren't recognised so can't get anywhere.
I get easily lost with the guides. I don't think they're newbie friendly. I .e. where am I supposed to type 'fastboot oem lock'?
Btw I have no custom rom installed ( I don't think) and when I downloaded the root checker from the market, my phone is recognised as not being rooted (even though I can't apply updates :/ )
I think main thing is that my phone isn't recognised in fastboot mode....
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Learn about fastboot here
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
For the drivers, you can watch the video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4AHucGBZHMQ
The guides are as noob friendly as they can be.

Thanks a lot for your help! I owe u polobunny , I can now lock the bootloader BUT, Ive rooted my device with 'twrp' and want to flash a ICS ROM. Which ROM would you reccomend and to install it do I add the rom to SD card and install from twrp interface? Or is it more complicated than that ?
Thankss

soulja786 said:
Thanks a lot for your help! I owe u polobunny , I can now lock the bootloader BUT, Ive rooted my device with 'twrp' and want to flash a ICS ROM. Which ROM would you reccomend and to install it do I add the rom to SD card and install from twrp interface? Or is it more complicated than that ?
Thankss
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Installing the Rom should be the same regardless of recovery. Yes put the rom on the SD card and flash away.

Thanks but do I need to wipe data/restore or can I just flash?

soulja786 said:
Thanks but do I need to wipe data/restore or can I just flash?
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Oh boy, you do need to read my friend.
In recovery (twerp, twink, Clockwork, whatever) back up your current set up. Then... I suggest you wipe data/factory reset, then wipe dalvik and cache yes. I do it 3 times on Clockwork just to be sure. The cleaner you get it the less problems you will incur. I always wipe fresh unless instructed specifically to do otherwise.
Flash your Rom, gapps, kernel and enjoy.

Help! ClockworkMod: "E: Can't mount SDCard"Did I brick my One S?

Good evening,
I really need your help. Been satisfied user of the Virtuous Ville ROM, but wanted to try Leedroids On S Rom today.
It all started with flsahing the Boot.img via ADB, which worked fine. But hereafter, I think I may have made a bad mistake: I launched ClockworkMod recovery, pressed "Nandroid Backup" - without verifying the message - and then wiped my phone. I should have noticed that Clockworkmod wasn't able to mount the SDCard already at the time when it attempted to do the nandroid backup.
Situation is, phone is empty and won't boot, I have been trying to restore access to my SD Card since about three hours, re-rooted my phone and read some bricking threads here at XDA... could not find a solution.
I have used the android internal encryption feature when I had the old ROM. Could it be that this blocks Clockwork Mod from accessing the SDCard?
Can someone please help me?
Maybe there is a way to flash a Ville ROM via ADB, so I can bypass my SDCard-Problem?
Greetings
Ulukaii

Amendment:
right now, I am trying to revive my phone via relocking it and installing the Stock ROM via RUU afterwards. I hope this works while the phone is in fastboot mode.
If this is successful, I am going to post it here.

Does anyone know if I have to revert to stock recovery before applying the RUU?
Thanks in advance
Ulu

check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
And NO you dont need stock recovery, Just a sense ROM and a relocked bootloader

no you dont have to. RUU flash via fastboot should be no prob.
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I had the same problem a few days ago & the other forums didn't work for me so I relocked the bootloader and flashed the RUU. Now its back to its factory state and im well I'm just happy it works
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Edit -- azzledazzle already provided correct link -- apologies for double post

The link works, had to use it myself.

why not just try flashing stock recovery then going back to bootloader and clearing storage and then going back to bootloader restoring to factory and then rebooting into the rom it'll wipe all partitions including sdcard except for system that uses the original proc/mount and restores sdcard to default
worked for me everytime
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androidcues said:
why not just try flashing stock recovery then going back to bootloader and clearing storage and then going back to bootloader restoring to factory and then rebooting into the rom it'll wipe all partitions including sdcard except for system that uses the original proc/mount and restores sdcard to default
worked for me everytime
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That's precisely what was posted further above already. Click the link.

I also get this message "Can't mount SDCard" when using HTC sync to PC..

QUICK WAY TO FIX SD CARD ERRORS
Well this worked for me can't guarentee it for everyone else. I'm running a mac, was able to boot into CM10 very well. Initially it just got stuck at the bootloading image so I had to flash an update boot.img and was able to get in but noticed no sd card even couldn't access the sd card in recovery. So I flashed a TWRP Recovery, still showed that it wouldn't allow me to mount the sd card telling me there is some error, however it allows to mount usb storage which is a life saver.
On mac automatically it comes up with a pop up window that says initialize... ignore eject.
Click Initialize.
Tap on the Drive on the side -> ERASE TAB on top
From the drop down list chose FAT -> CLICK ERASE
After it's done eject the storage safely then unmount usb storage from the phone, you can try and tap mount SD CARD and it will still give you the same error. No worries there, boot into the OS and it'll prompt you that the sd card partition is damaged, it'll ask you to format. Let it format and your in the clear.
This works great if you were able to get into your OS.
I was running CM10

Just use TWRP. Thats it.
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AttachedSilver said:
I had the same problem a few days ago & the other forums didn't work for me so I relocked the bootloader and flashed the RUU. Now its back to its factory state and im well I'm just happy it works
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Can you give me a link to the RUU that you used? The one I'm trying to use will not work. It starts up but it wont finish.

cant mount sd at all
so i am having the same problem as others, i soft bricked my one s and was able to get it working again with "all in one kit" but now i still cant mount the sd card on phone or pc. can anybody help??

extremely helpful
jonsingh12 said:
QUICK WAY TO FIX SD CARD ERRORS
Well this worked for me can't guarentee it for everyone else. I'm running a mac, was able to boot into CM10 very well. Initially it just got stuck at the bootloading image so I had to flash an update boot.img and was able to get in but noticed no sd card even couldn't access the sd card in recovery. So I flashed a TWRP Recovery, still showed that it wouldn't allow me to mount the sd card telling me there is some error, however it allows to mount usb storage which is a life saver.
On mac automatically it comes up with a pop up window that says initialize... ignore eject.
Click Initialize.
Tap on the Drive on the side -> ERASE TAB on top
From the drop down list chose FAT -> CLICK ERASE
After it's done eject the storage safely then unmount usb storage from the phone, you can try and tap mount SD CARD and it will still give you the same error. No worries there, boot into the OS and it'll prompt you that the sd card partition is damaged, it'll ask you to format. Let it format and your in the clear.
This works great if you were able to get into your OS.
I was running CM10
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I tried this after a whole night of trying to fix my phone and instant fix it mounted as soon as I formatted from computer using use mount. Thank u a ton.

Ok just got the same problem ... unable to mount my sdcard. went back to stock recovery and it wasn't able to format/mount the drive.. I'm on a an OSX machine as well.. was about to RUU update but all I can find are exe (windows) files to run.. anyway for me to do a RUU update with a mac anyone.. Think only option for me is to lock my bootloader and install RUU .. but don't know how on a mac... thanks in advance...
oh forgot to mention i'm stuck on bootloop...
nvm I got it done.. just did a virtualbox with winxp and got all working.. wish they had osx native way of doing this. but at least I got a working phone again.. finally found the right words to search to find my answer..

Unable to Install ROM or mount USB storage -- Please Help

First of all, I hate to start new topics that potentially already been discussed, but I looked around for hours and still have not found the solution.
It all started when I tried to install CM10. I had Viper before and forgot to flash boot.img when I flash CM10. I have a Sensation 4G before so I did not know I had to flash boot.img after flashing a ROM. Very stupid of me and I learned my lesson. So, long story short, phone won't boot. I did reset and was able to go back into bootloader.
I tried to relock bootloader, then reflash bootloader and TWRP again. All went great... then I hit my brick wall. First, when I reboot into recovery (TWRP), it asked for a password. I have no idea, the guy that sold me the phone never told me it, so I cancel it, but was still able to use TWRP. Also, I have no idea how to put the new ROM into the phone and I cannot mount USB storage to do so. Whenever I try to mount /sdcard or USB storage, it said Error.
I tried to use adb push the ROM into the phone, but it doesn't seem to work because I cannot mount the /sdcard. I can't boot into the ROM either, just bootloader and recovery.
So I've run out of ideas, can anyone point me toward the right direction? Thanks a lot.

You need to search the Android Development section and find tthe RUU file for your region. Install the file from the pc (it looks like any other setup files, it is an exe file) with the phone in fastboot mode and you will have stock Rom. Since you had installed a custom Rom before, you know what to do from here forward.
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[Q] Wiped and not working HTC One S [s4]

Good day everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I am in desperate need of your help. I recently purchased a HTC One S from an online store they told me it was new never used locked phone. Turns out phone was rooted, 4g does not work, and it could not recognize e drive, (internal sd card)
After reading the all in one i re-rooted it and install the teamwin version of recovery.
Now i never had any back ups or any factory files. as i got the phone rooted with software that did not work. My phone now has no rom and i cannot install from adb sideloader, or an other means. I am new to this and cannot seem to figure out how to get my phone back to even stock un-rooted etc. I tried multiple forums and download links but nothing.
i was able to install vipers rom at one point but despite several attempts to reinstall. recovery does not see files loaded. which i can see on my mac or pc.
the other strange thing i notice is that at the top in fastboot mode i sometimes see unlocked in pink only and other times i see both unlocked and tampered. when its unlock only none of my computers recognize connection.
I also tried boot.img for flash. The furthest my screen no goes is the htc logo, then goes black.
Please help, even to just point me in rite direction to have this resolved.

the boot.img, did you flash it via fastboot? (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
And, one question that comes to mind... they sold you a device as new, yet it wasnt.. Why didnt you return it?

Goatshocker said:
the boot.img, did you flash it via fastboot? (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
And, one question that comes to mind... they sold you a device as new, yet it wasnt.. Why didnt you return it?
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Yes I tried several times loading the boot.img via fastboot.
As far as returning the device i trashed the mailing box but kept original packaging so no return address. I called the company which i made the purchase from "N1wireless" several times and sent several emails to them. They have yet to reply or answer any of my calls. Which is why I am so frustrated.

mnitllc said:
Yes I tried several times loading the boot.img via fastboot.
As far as returning the device i trashed the mailing box but kept original packaging so no return address. I called the company which i made the purchase from "N1wireless" several times and sent several emails to them. They have yet to reply or answer any of my calls. Which is why I am so frustrated.
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Boot into recovery, select mount > mount usb storage. From pc move the Rom.zip to your sd card which should now be showing on your pc. After it is moved to your phone select unmount then press home button in twrp recovery. Then install the Rom. After install open up adb and type adb reboot bootloader then press enter. Now fastboot flash the boot img from inside the Rom.zip on your computer. After that reboot your phone and report back
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bochocinco23 said:
Boot into recovery, select mount > mount usb storage. From pc move the Rom.zip to your sd card which should now be showing on your pc. After it is moved to your phone select unmount then press home button in twrp recovery. Then install the Rom. After install open up adb and type adb reboot bootloader then press enter. Now fastboot flash the boot img from inside the Rom.zip on your computer. After that reboot your phone and report back
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Hi, thanks for the reply, thats just the thing I cannot in recovery install any rom loaded to sd card. It fails. I tried reinstalling the recovery and it still not reading my sd card.
So my guess is i need a new twrc or how to do it from my mac, as now when i try on my pc it is failing as-well. Once I get the recovery to work I will try your other suggestions as I think it will work based on the steps you mentioned.
I am trying to figure out how to use terminal to reinstall recovery. any suggestions or links will be greatly appreciated.:good:

you install recoveries through fastboot, fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Goatshocker said:
you install recoveries through fastboot, fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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I reinstalled recovery several times now and it wont recognize the sd card. is there another recovery i can download and use? Also is there any instructions for a newby to use terminal to re-boot, everything from scratch. Meaning if the phone is completely blank except the fast boot and a recovery manager no backups or stock kernel etc. what is the format to be used in order for the computer and recovery to recognize the sd card?
I think I need a good recovery rom like cmod if there is one for the htc one s or the stock one if someone has it.

hi i had that problem
mnitllc said:
I reinstalled recovery several times now and it wont recognize the sd card. is there another recovery i can download and use? Also is there any instructions for a newby to use terminal to re-boot, everything from scratch. Meaning if the phone is completely blank except the fast boot and a recovery manager no backups or stock kernel etc. what is the format to be used in order for the computer and recovery to recognize the sd card?
I think I need a good recovery rom like cmod if there is one for the htc one s or the stock one if someone has it.
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I had that problem the sd card would not be seen by my laptop and the phone would not boot at all if you plug in the phone to your go to start and then computer right click on your c drive go to manage and see if you can see it there if so try to format it and then reboot the phone if it works you can then install cwm as a recovery system then you can put what rom you wont on it i am use in zenRom 1.05 and to me its the best coz it like the htc rom that the phone come with if that don`t work let me know coz i have more tricks to try i hope this helps you out.

Theres only TWRP and CWM for the S afaik, and CWM sucks. TWRP is the one to use.

I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!

violentlighting said:
I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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got it. will try it asap.

I could not get the stock recovery via that link you provided. If there is another link to the stock I would appreciate it. I had to flash it wit cwm twice then reflash with twrc to get it to identify the sd card. i had tried the viper rom but my 4g and wifi doesnt work. Will try trickmod hopefully that works with no more issues

violentlighting said:
I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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Hey thanks allot for your suggestions. I made some progress. It kinda worked. However I my wifi and data connections no good. I tried the 9.1 update and then tried the tweaks.
Do you know if it is possible to get stock kernel and stock rome to undo changes on device?

[Q] Can't go into USB fastboot or mount USB storage in TWRP

Basically I can't go into USB fastboot or mount USB storage in TWRP. In recovery I kept getting these errors:
E:Unable to mount '/sdcard/ (tw_mount)
E: Failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid argument)
I'm reading somewhere that I should't have done a factory reset in the bootloader, but somewhere along the way I wiped my sdcard so I have nothing to flash in my phone..
Basically all this started happening after I dropped my phone in the afternoon while it was charging. It worked fine for a while, but then it hanged then started bootlooping, so I did the factory reset. I'm seriously hoping it's not a hardware issue.. My USB cable was functional the last time I used it to flash stuff, and it can still be used to charge the phone, so..
I was on 2.20, S-on, TWRP 2.2 and was running rohan32's b7 kernel and KK m1 rom. Haven't been here in a while since everything was working fine..
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What the heck, this questions has been asked like 3 times today.
Connect the phone to a Windows PC, open Device Manager. There you should have the option to format. Format as FAT32, and this should fix the SD card corruption.
Factory reset in hboot corrupts the SD. Only factory reset in TWRP.

Yeah I read that too. I would if I could but my PC isn't detecting my phone. fastboot devices, adb devices show nothing too.
Since that's that I'm gonna just hope it's just that my usb cable got damaged when I dropped it or something, get another cable and give it a try in a few hours.

Adb will only detect if you are in recovery or fully booted and fastboot will work well yeah that's obvious when

a box of kittens said:
Adb will only detect if you are in recovery or fully booted and fastboot will work well yeah that's obvious when
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You can boot to recovery but not Fastboot? Can you use TWRP to reboot the phone into the bootloader, have you tried that?
I had a similar problem, I ended up using Evita toolkit to update TWRP to the latest 2.4.2.0 version: http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/99
Then I could use Mount option to mount the External Storage again, dumped my choice of ROM onto it and flash it.

hello there
i had the exact same problem as the author of this post except i used CleanROM5.1 (everything else the same)
my phone started rebooting faster and faster in look until it wouldnt get past the logo screen
i have tried every trick in this forum no success
came down to this post which seemed to look the best, as i seem to have the same problem of SDCARD not being recognized by phone
so i plugged it to the laptop on TWRP recovery and formatted the card
no success
PS.. i used a Mac to format the card, and it has the MS-DOS FAT option closest to the FAT32 sdcard filing system
are the 2 the same ? is that where my problem is? wrong file format when i formatted the card?
PLEASE HELP... I WORK IN A HOSPITAL AND ONCALL AND NEED THIS PROBLEM RESOLVED ASAP TONIGHT!

That could be the problem... FAT is not the same as FAT32.
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I would verify in device mgr that computer isn't seeing it, if you see android devices or my HTC in device mgr then it is recognized, if not then check the hidden devices option under tools and see if its greyed out , if so update driver at HTC.com
Oops just realized you said you are on a mac.....that might be your first issue of many
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twrp 2.4.x formats your sdcard as exFAT. i found out windows xp systems wont read it out of the box until you install this update.

stuck in recovery
any solutions for windows 7?
im using samsung gs3 and im stuck in twrp. my computer wont recognize the usb?
please help!!

purplebowties said:
any solutions for windows 7?
im using samsung gs3 and im stuck in twrp. my computer wont recognize the usb?
please help!!
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Ask in the gs3 forums. They will be better equipped to help you.
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purplebowties said:
any solutions for windows 7?
im using samsung gs3 and im stuck in twrp. my computer wont recognize the usb?
please help!!
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WTF did you come from?! But seriously the GS3 is different than the One XL so you could end up with a brick. Go search the GS3 forums or post a question there.

Even though this is the one x thread, I recommend using cwm over twrp. It is more stabled
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Herc08 said:
Even though this is the one x thread, I recommend using cwm over twrp. It is more stabled
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Hi!
it seems that I have exactly the same issue: My evita was a bit slow so I performed a factory reset from the bootloader... stupid idea as it removed the OS (ROM) from my SD. I tried to push a ROM in the device, it said it was successful but there is still nothing on my SD card.
In the bootloader adb is not detecting my phone, fastboot is working though. Sideload is not working.
When i try to wipe anything from TRWP it says : it says "failed to mount 'sdcard' (invalid argument)"
Charac:
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT2.15.0000
TWRP 2.8.7.5
Can you help me on this?

antonin2503 said:
Hi!
it seems that I have exactly the same issue: My evita was a bit slow so I performed a factory reset from the bootloader... stupid idea as it removed the OS (ROM) from my SD. I tried to push a ROM in the device, it said it was successful but there is still nothing on my SD card.
In the bootloader adb is not detecting my phone, fastboot is working though. Sideload is not working.
When i try to wipe anything from TRWP it says : it says "failed to mount 'sdcard' (invalid argument)"
Charac:
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT2.15.0000
TWRP 2.8.7.5
Can you help me on this?
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I found the solution : Plug the phone to the PC, open in TWRP recovery / click on mount, then the PC ask to format the device, format in fat32. Then copy the rom to the sdcard. Flash it with TWRP. Done!