Stuck in bootloop - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

Now first off I'd like to start saying that I've seen a few threads from a search with this issue but none of them matched my case perfectly or solved the issue.
I have an AT&T HTC One X and was running CleanRom DE 1.0
I saw there was an upgrade out and tried installing the upgrade. I tried running the RUU but it gave me an error 155 (Unknown error). Thinking that it did not matter to much, I tried to install the new version anyway. This got me stuck in a boot loop of the boot animation for about 1 second, then rebooting. I have CWM recovery installed and can adb/fastboot but I cannot do much else. I pushed a 1.7 rom to my sdcard but CWM gives me the message, "Error: Cannot mount /sdcard/"
My phone is unlocked but locking it did not change anything, still could not load anything or use the RUU.
I've seen other threads saying to Lock the phone, then flash the ruu and I guess I'm a little confused on that. By saying "flash the ruu" do you mean just running the .exe file or doing something with fastboot flash? I'm stuck without a phone right now and any help would be appreciated.

In my situation, I deleted the user memory and dalvik cache. I then did some research on my phone's exact stock ROM. I flashed the ROM and basically started off fresh. It may not be the most convenient. But, it may be what is needed. It sounds as if your phone is 'soft-bricked' so this should work as the last ditch effort.
Best of luck!
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Thankyou for your reply, I'm new to android and I'm wondering what exact steps went into flashing the stock rom onto your phone? Let's assume I already have that stock rom. Are you just using fastboot flash boot rom.zip ? or using CWM?
EDIT: My phone is now booting! I kept launching the RUU and after about four times it decided to work. Back to the stock AT&T rom, and right now I'm great with that.

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[Q] No Rom, Unable to load on to SD-Ext, Errors when attempting to flash via fastboot

I hate to post this but after 3 days of trying to get this damned phone serviceable I am seeking higher powers.
I have viewed just about every thread I can, and everytime i think I'm getting close only to be disappointed.
I was attempting to root a Rogers HTC One X for a friend. Ive rooted 3 other devices prior to this one without issue and constantly custom rom my own device (HTC Raider).
As of now, I CAN: Boot to Hboot (1.11.000), Flash Custom Recovery (Have tried TWRP and CWM, can enter successfully cant do much else), flash things via fastboot.
I CANNOT boot to OS. Its apparently gone. so as such, i have no access to the SD-ext. I CAN mount USB in TWRP but while it shows up in windows as a storage device, I CANT see it on the phone, so i cant flash it. I CANNOT mount in CWM.
I have attempted to RUU via fastboot. I have gotten errors for signature, size and model. Even the stock, non-root one (1.94) stated that the size is incorrect. Im also seeing alot of Errors regarding android-info.txt.
I really desperately need to get this running. Which ever rom. i dont care. If i can get stock, fine, if not Custom rom/kernel.
My biggest issue is not having access to the sd-ext and this phone, for some stupid reason, does not have a microSD slot, which would have made this whole issue alot easier.
I dont know if im missing a file or a step. Im really not sure where to go next.
If you have files that will work and can tell me how to do it, I will forever be in your debt.
It seems to me that i SHOULD be able to run fastboot update xxx.zip and just have it fix it but thats when im getting the android-info.txt errors.
If i could manually flash the 3 files through fastboot (system and boot more than recovery), i would think it would work but nooooooo.
Is there any way any of you know how to get me to atleast being able to see my sd-ext on both windows and TWRP so i can flash it that way? ANYTHING?
So, Got it up and running with Team Nocturnals Rom.
What I had to do was wipe SD and caches in TWRP. Flashed CWM from fastboot. Wiped SD and cache AGAIN. Flashed back to TWRP. Wiped SD and Cache. Rebooted to fastboot. Flashed the boot.IMG. Rebooted to recovery. Mounted USB. Windows detected it. Formatted to fat32. Copied the .zip to SD and installed. Problem solved.
Stock 2.20 Rom that's around didn't work, deodexed rooted stock didnts, nor did Android Revolution HD.
I still thank all of you, because even though I got this working myself, it was bits and pieces of every other thread that got me to that point. Thank you all.
Sent from my HTC Velocity 4G X710s using xda app-developers app
Kesler84 said:
So, Got it up and running with Team Nocturnals Rom.
What I had to do was wipe SD and caches in TWRP. Flashed CWM from fastboot. Wiped SD and cache AGAIN. Flashed back to TWRP. Wiped SD and Cache. Rebooted to fastboot. Flashed the boot.IMG. Rebooted to recovery. Mounted USB. Windows detected it. Formatted to fat32. Copied the .zip to SD and installed. Problem solved.
Stock 2.20 Rom that's around didn't work, deodexed rooted stock didnts, nor did Android Revolution HD.
I still thank all of you, because even though I got this working myself, it was bits and pieces of every other thread that got me to that point. Thank you all.
Sent from my HTC Velocity 4G X710s using xda app-developers app
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Ummmm android revolution is for the international one x.... Maybe that's how u f'd it up in the first place? Idk just be careful the threads are kinda similar ...
No, I didn't even touch Revolution until it was already not working. I was originally just rooting the stock. It wasn't until it softbricked that I attempted any customs.
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[Q] How do I unbrick my phone?

So tonight I began the process of unlocking my phone and installing a custom ROM. I unlocked my phone successfully with the toolkit and was able to get into recovery and begin flashing my first ROM (Cyangogen 10 most recent nightly along with the Gapps). However on my first reboot after flashing the room, I started to realize something was awry when after 20-30 minutes it was still on a boot screen. I proceeded to try and reflash the ROM 2 more times with no real change in outcome. Whenever I tried booting out of recovery I would get a warning stopping me saying that no OS was installed, despite having clearly flashed a new ROM. Okay, so as a last ditch effort I went into the bootloader mode and enabled fastboot so that I could try the RUU - which of course failed despite 2-3 attempts at using the utility. After the RUU failures I also noticed that my SD card would no longer mount unless I manually formatted it - which I finally gave in to and was able to load another custom rom (Jellybam this time) which also would get stuck on the boot screen despite successfully flashing. So now I'm basically stuck in a limbo land where no custom ROM will boot into the OS and the RUU to take me back to stock has failed. Any suggestions on how to get out of this? (I've read in other places that you can use fastboot to flash files in the bootloader but my attempts at doings this have also been unsuccessful - if this is the route to go can anyone give me some specific instructions on how to do it?)
Thanks in advance guys.
Phone Specifics - AT&T HTC One X, 16gb running the 2.2 firmware on Android 4.04 before I got into all this nonsense.
Dissentire77 said:
So tonight I began the process of unlocking my phone and installing a custom ROM. I unlocked my phone successfully with the toolkit and was able to get into recovery and begin flashing my first ROM (Cyangogen 10 most recent nightly along with the Gapps). However on my first reboot after flashing the room, I started to realize something was awry when after 20-30 minutes it was still on a boot screen. I proceeded to try and reflash the ROM 2 more times with no real change in outcome. Whenever I tried booting out of recovery I would get a warning stopping me saying that no OS was installed, despite having clearly flashed a new ROM. Okay, so as a last ditch effort I went into the bootloader mode and enabled fastboot so that I could try the RUU - which of course failed despite 2-3 attempts at using the utility. After the RUU failures I also noticed that my SD card would no longer mount unless I manually formatted it - which I finally gave in to and was able to load another custom rom (Jellybam this time) which also would get stuck on the boot screen despite successfully flashing. So now I'm basically stuck in a limbo land where no custom ROM will boot into the OS and the RUU to take me back to stock has failed. Any suggestions on how to get out of this? (I've read in other places that you can use fastboot to flash files in the bootloader but my attempts at doings this have also been unsuccessful - if this is the route to go can anyone give me some specific instructions on how to do it?)
Thanks in advance guys.
Phone Specifics - AT&T HTC One X, 16gb running the 2.2 firmware on Android 4.04 before I got into all this nonsense.
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You know you also have to relock the bootloader before you RUU Right?
and if your on hboot 1.14 you have to flash the boot img separately from the zip(in the folder you put fastboot,adb,etc.)
WhatTheAndroid? said:
You know you also have to relock the bootloader before you RUU Right?
and if your on hboot 1.14 you have to flash the boot img separately from the zip(in the folder you put fastboot,adb,etc.)
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I was forgetting to relock the bootloader, thanks man. Was able to go back to stock, restart the process and am now rocking CM10. This is why I love XDA.
Dissentire77 said:
I was forgetting to relock the bootloader, thanks man. Was able to go back to stock, restart the process and am now rocking CM10. This is why I love XDA.
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Sounds like a thanks button click is on order for WhatTheAndroids post to you
ViperXL 2.4.0 w/ElementalX 3.1 kernel

[Q] upgarde snaufu...

was running viperXL 3.2.5 and wiped and went to cm10.1 now i used goo manager to download xhata (sorry i butchered it) now i can only boot into spash screen and bootloader. i used fastboot to reflash twrp and still only boots to the custom spash... hboot 1.09 s-off..... im kinda lost here. should have syuck with viper, why screw with perfection.
What is xhata? Is it a rom?
I'm not sure we can install roms with Goo Manager on this phone.
If you installed a rom for the quad-core Tegra One X, your phone will not boot and you're lucky you didn't get a brick. You need to do a full wipe and reflash.
first off not a noob. it was the evita rom. i still have bootloader access and can get half way into recovery( spash screen then twrp spash...) then reboot into custom splash. it was the rom... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2075783 so if anyone has any ideas please help, just dont start with the usual u screwed up flashing roms i know better. and the odd part is after reflashing the recovery via fastboot i get Twrp spash before going back to the phone main splash and boot looping.... and yes im s-off
No need to be so defensive. If we don't know exactly what you flashed, all we can do is ask. Its not meant as an insult. But its always better to ask the seemingly "obvious" questions first, get them out of the way.
If there is a "usual thing" that gets mentioned, its because the mistake of flashing ROMs for the ENDEAVORU in fact happens so often. Downloading from GooManager is not a great idea either, and often a red flag that someone installed a ROM for the wrong version of the phone.
Did the phone operate properly when you were on CM10.1?
What version of TWRP, and what fastboot command did you use to flash it?
I asked the "usual" questions because:
-You have less than 100 posts. That's often a sign of someone who is new to this.
-You used a rom name I've never heard of, and suggested you weren't sure of the name yourself. That's usually a big red flag for someone who flashed some random rom they found via Google.
-You mentioned using Goo Manager. That's a non-standard method for this phone, and an awful lot of people have bricked their phones trying to flash roms through apps that aren't well-supported. CWM Touch was notorious for this when the One X first came out.
If you don't want people to assume things, you need to state them up front.
On topic: There appears to be a bug in the latest TWRP that causes issues for some people. Try rolling back to an earlier version.
iElvis said:
On topic: There appears to be a bug in the latest TWRP that causes issues for some people. Try rolling back to an earlier version.
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Yeah, I saw that too, and why I asked the OP what version of TWRP.
i had problems with that rom on version 4.0.1 and 4.1.0 had alot of errors and trouble. i haven't tried 4.2.0 though, i have been having better luck with rom after clearing out recovery cache running "fastboot erase cache" and running only twrp 2.3.3.1.
i flashed the second to last release of twrp (latest gave mount issues), viper was running great, cm 10.1 avatar was running fine just didnt like how plain it was so i used goo manager to download hatkaXL and when the download finished i picked select and flash.. then the usual warning about flashing and it rebooted, hit spash screen where it still is hours later. i then tried manually boot into recovery, it hit the bootloader i selected recovery and it seemed to try and load. next step was back to fast boot and to reflash twrp (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ) flashed 100% success and still wont boot into recovery just the bootloader, and i wasnt trying to get all defensive, i sent first post using the wifes phone and posted quick, had a guy hooking up my satellite at same time as phone crashed. has anyone tried the new version of cwm for the evita? maybe flashing that may get me back, i have roms and backups on the pc that i can seem to side load but never boot as well.
well after repeated flashing of recovery and (fastboot erase cache) it finally booted to recovery, now to see if my backup will load.

[Q] One S C2 / S3 Not compleating ROM flash?? Bricked?

Hey all, been a member here for years but dont post offten. Normally able to get the info i need from other posts but this time i am stuck Just wondering if anyone has had the same issue flashing a One S C2 with the S3 CPU that im having now. It was stuck with 4.0.3 with hboot 2.09.001, raido 16.05.2.24_M and CID OPTUS001...
Last night i dev unlocked it via the HTC site and flashed TWRP 2.4.4.0 recovery. Tried to put on luxandroidROM v4 but it failed part way through ROM install. The progess bar just got to a point and stopped?? I noticed i had a hboot that was too old for the JB ROM so tried BackToBasics v3 (ICS) ROM but that did the same thing...
Thinking it was maybe just a issue with the ROMs, i tried TrickDroid 6 and CM10 Unofficial build but that was doing the exact same thing... Tried redownloading all the ROMs and looking into SupoerCID but as other with the S3 CPU have reported, it all appears to have worked but does not change the CID Oddly enough when i was in ADB Shell while the phone was sitting on the TWRP recovery mode the SU command was not working. Relevent?
I'm now thinking the issue is the phone is not getting permissions to write the ROMs but have no idea how to correct this. I made sure TWRP has all sections mounted (not sure if this is needed as i normally use CWM) but didn't help.
TWRP keeps saying device isnt rooted when i go to reboot it but fails to root when i tell it to on exit. I have manually flashed SuperSU through TWRP and tried fixing permissions. Tried full factory wipe, Bulletproof-S3-1.3 Kernal and SuperSU again. Still nothing.
Not able to find a RUU for the OPTUS001 CID. Tried extracted version of RUU_VILLEC2_U_ICS_40_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.11.707.112_Radio_16.12.20.02U_16.05.20.16_M2 with CID changed in texts files but it still saied with carrier ID issue
This would be the first time i think i have bricked a phone Does anyone have any suggestions? At this point i would be happy for a nandroid backup to go back to sock and just like with 4.0.3
$40 reward to whoever provides me the info i need to fix this
On the s4 versions of TWRP newer than 2.4.0.0 have issues. I'm not sure if they affect the c2 version but I shouldn't hurt to try an older version.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda app-developers app
TWRP 2.4.4.0 has known bugs. Downgrade to 2.3.3.0 or 2.3.3.7.
And remember to open (BUT NOT EXTRACT) the .zip and to copy and paste the boot.img into your fastboot working environment and manually flash it with this command:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then try to flash the ROM that you got the boot.img from. This should work.
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Managed to get this working, figured i would post in case anyone else runs in this issue.
Tried multiple versions of TWRP and no matter what one i tried the roms were unable to write to the stoage. Had to format the phone storage using boot cd - I used GParted through a virtual to do so.
Once that was done TWRP 2.4.4.0 worked fine to flash rom. Still stuck with 4.0.3 with hboot 2.09.001 due to the optus CID but phone is atleast alive. Thanks all for the input

Android Revolution HD 7.3

Hey guys,
Having some problems with this ROM. I downloaded the ZIP, used Titanium backup to back it all up, and flashed the Rom with no problems at all...got through all the screens and whatnot, and upon launching for the first time it's stuck on the "Beats Audio" screen. Not really sure why or what happened. I'm coming from MIUI ROM and haven't had issues with flashing any other ROM before.
One thing I noticed is on the HD 7.3 first page there is a firmware update that you apparently need before you flash the ROM but all links are 404/not found.
Wondering if any of you pros can offer a hand?
-Cain
Cainsmoker said:
Hey guys,
Having some problems with this ROM. I downloaded the ZIP, used Titanium backup to back it all up, and flashed the Rom with no problems at all...got through all the screens and whatnot, and upon launching for the first time it's stuck on the "Beats Audio" screen. Not really sure why or what happened. I'm coming from MIUI ROM and haven't had issues with flashing any other ROM before.
One thing I noticed is on the HD 7.3 first page there is a firmware update that you apparently need before you flash the ROM but all links are 404/not found.
Wondering if any of you pros can offer a hand?
-Cain
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post the output of this command
fastboot getvar all
don't show your imei and serial number
and what recovery do you have?
rzr86 said:
post the output of this command
fastboot getvar all
don't show your imei and serial number
and what recovery do you have?
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In looking at my Hboot, it's old as sin....I'm using Revolutionary Hboot 1.17.1111 and Radio 10.14.9035.01_M
I run clockwork recovery mod v5.0.2.0 as well. This could be an issue causing the problem. I've been using the MIUI ROM for probably 2 years or so because I enjoyed it but I'm ready for a change. Apparently my phone doesn't agree. lol.
You want me to connect via USB and run the cmd prompt for the getvar command and let you know what it says?
Cainsmoker said:
In looking at my Hboot, it's old as sin....I'm using Revolutionary Hboot 1.17.1111 and Radio 10.14.9035.01_M
I run clockwork recovery mod v5.0.2.0 as well. This could be an issue causing the problem. I've been using the MIUI ROM for probably 2 years or so because I enjoyed it but I'm ready for a change. Apparently my phone doesn't agree. lol.
You want me to connect via USB and run the cmd prompt for the getvar command and let you know what it says?
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there is no need to do it now
you gave me exactly what i need
you still have gb firmware that's why you can't boot ARHD 7.3(ics rom)
see this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
flash 3.33 universal
follow the instructions to the letter
and before flashing check md5 sums(important)
The speedy reply is much appreciated.
I'll go ahead and update the firmware and see where that lands me. I figured it could have been a problem from the get go but in the original thread for the HD 7.3 Rom the firmware link has been removed (likely since it was from 2011)
Thanks for the point in the right direction Rzr, and I'll let you know how it goes!
rzr86 said:
there is no need to do it now
you gave me exactly what i need
you still have gb firmware that's why you can't boot ARHD 7.3(ics rom)
see this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459767
flash 3.33 universal
follow the instructions to the letter
and before flashing check md5 sums(important)
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Hmmm....the firmware update didn't work.
I can verify that I'm on the firmware 3.3, Hboot is 1.27.1100, Radio is 11.24A.3504.31_M.
Each time Hboot is run it asks if I want to start the update. If I select yes, I've got 9 on screen options that it runs through and tells me "Update complete. Press power to reboot" The only way to do anything at all is to take out the SD card so it does not try to load up the firmware zip
Pushing power reboots the phone on an endless boot loop. Regardless of what ROM is being used (I also downloaded cyanogenmod) I can not make it past the spash screen.
Could it be that I'm just flashing the ROM incorrectly? To my knowledge I've followed instructions for both and have backed up my phone and it's contents and done everything from a factory reset/wipe to wiping the dalvik cache, etc. I didn't have this many problems rooting my phone and putting on MIUI to begin with and have flashed ROMS before with no trouble....not really sure where I'm going wrong on this one.
Anyway, I'll await your reply.
Thank you!
-Cain
Update: awww frick. So now it looks like this will be more difficult....I hope you like a challenge. I can now no longer get into my phone. It appears that it's soft bricked. I have tried going to a clockwork mod recovery from my first MIUI in 2012, it goes through the entire process of factory resetting restoring the boot image, system and data information. It asks for a reboot which I do. It goes to the white HTC splash screen and the MIUI initializes and goes black immediately. There doesn't seem to be a way to get my phone connected to my computer to get into the SD card to troubleshoot from inside the phone. Hopefully one of you guys has the answer for me. Is there any way to get into it via bootloader usb?
Cainsmoker said:
Hmmm....the firmware update didn't work.
I can verify that I'm on the firmware 3.3, Hboot is 1.27.1100, Radio is 11.24A.3504.31_M.
Each time Hboot is run it asks if I want to start the update. If I select yes, I've got 9 on screen options that it runs through and tells me "Update complete. Press power to reboot" The only way to do anything at all is to take out the SD card so it does not try to load up the firmware zip
Pushing power reboots the phone on an endless boot loop. Regardless of what ROM is being used (I also downloaded cyanogenmod) I can not make it past the spash screen.
Could it be that I'm just flashing the ROM incorrectly? To my knowledge I've followed instructions for both and have backed up my phone and it's contents and done everything from a factory reset/wipe to wiping the dalvik cache, etc. I didn't have this many problems rooting my phone and putting on MIUI to begin with and have flashed ROMS before with no trouble....not really sure where I'm going wrong on this one.
Anyway, I'll await your reply.
Thank you!
-Cain
Update: awww frick. So now it looks like this will be more difficult....I hope you like a challenge. I can now no longer get into my phone. It appears that it's soft bricked. I have tried going to a clockwork mod recovery from my first MIUI in 2012, it goes through the entire process of factory resetting restoring the boot image, system and data information. It asks for a reboot which I do. It goes to the white HTC splash screen and the MIUI initializes and goes black immediately. There doesn't seem to be a way to get my phone connected to my computer to get into the SD card to troubleshoot from inside the phone. Hopefully one of you guys has the answer for me. Is there any way to get into it via bootloader usb?
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remove the pg58img.zip from your sdcard so it won't scan and identify any pg58img.zip file
and don't restore your miui rom because probably is a gb one and now you have an ics firmware installed
just download an ics or jb rom
put it on your sdcard
full wipe from recovery
flash the rom
done
rzr86 said:
remove the pg58img.zip from your sdcard so it won't scan and identify any pg58img.zip file
and don't restore your miui rom because probably is a gb one and now you have an ics firmware installed
just download an ics or jb rom
put it on your sdcard
full wipe from recovery
flash the rom
done
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With the phone being in a boot loop I can't get it detected by my computer to remove/add anything from the SD card. I do have the HD 7.3 ROM on and the Gapps that's required but it never makes it past the "beats audio" splash screen. I have no idea what's going on with it but will try any suggestions you've got up your sleeve.
Ahhhhh....I've gotten a fix for this!
I was unable to do anything because of the update zip which wanted me to update every time bootloader was initiated. By keeping my case off I removed my SD card to be able to boot in recovery and then put the SD card back in to load the HD 7.3 zip from the card. This seemed to take care of the problem.
Thanks for the help Rzr

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