hi guys, i'm noob for a android, i switched from iphone to HOX at&t, and i really like it. Last night I tried to root, unlock bootloader, and flash custom ROM to my phone. The root part was easy, and unlock bootloader kinda tricky but I did it. After unlocked bootloader I tired to install twrp recovery to it, but i think my phone lost root, because I tried to use titanium to backup my apps but it said my phone doesn't have root, even though i saw the SU icon. I gave up since I was tired. This morning I still could turn on my phone and work normally, then I went to bootloader mode and I saw the recovery, I wiped cache, cavilk, system, and factory reset, but when I tired to reboot system, it wouldn't work, so I had to volume down and power button to get back to bootloader mode. I tried reboot in there but my phone stuck in HTC logo and I can't do nothing. I don't know what to do now. I tried to reboot on cmd but it still stuck at HTC logo. I tried to install the custom ROM by cmd but it was erro: device can not found. I think my laptop doesn't recognize my phone even though I already installed HTC driver. I thought when I plugged my phone in bootloader, choose fastboot, i saw fastboot usb though, so my phone connected.
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hi guys, i'm noob for a android, i switched from iphone to HOX at&t, and i really like it. Last night I tried to root, unlock bootloader, and flash custom ROM to my phone. The root part was easy, and unlock bootloader kinda tricky but I did it. After unlocked bootloader I tired to install twrp recovery to it, but i think my phone lost root, because I tried to use titanium to backup my apps but it said my phone doesn't have root, even though i saw the SU icon. I gave up since I was tired. This morning I still could turn on my phone and work normally, then I went to bootloader mode and I saw the recovery, I wiped cache, cavilk, system, and factory reset, but when I tired to reboot system, it wouldn't work, so I had to volume down and power button to get back to bootloader mode. I tried reboot in there but my phone stuck in HTC logo and I can't do nothing. I don't know what to do now. I tried to reboot on cmd but it still stuck at HTC logo. I tried to install the custom ROM by cmd but it was erro: device can not found. I think my laptop doesn't recognize my phone even though I already installed HTC driver. I thought when I plugged my phone in bootloader, choose fastboot, i saw fastboot usb though, so my phone connected.
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boot into bootloader and choose fastboot. connect to computer and fastboot oem relock bootloader, then run the RUU. if all goes well you can then reunlock the bootloader with the unlock_code.bin you used to unlock it the first time.
Don't RUU back all you did was wipe the phone completely no big deal. Just load into bootloader select recovery then mount the usb storage upload a custom ROM CleanROM, AOKP or CM9 your choice really and then unmount usb storage then flash the custom ROM all fixed.
PS the reason your got stuck is when you wipe /system that wipes the ROM completely.
P_Dub_S said:
Don't RUU back all you did was wipe the phone completely no big deal. Just load into bootloader select recovery then mount the usb storage upload a custom ROM CleanROM, AOKP or CM9 your choice really and then unmount usb storage then flash the custom ROM all fixed.
PS the reason your got stuck is when you wipe /system that wipes the ROM completely.
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+1 to this. You will be fine if you just flash another ROM.
And for future reference (if it wasn't obvious already), don't wipe /system
P_Dub_S said:
Don't RUU back all you did was wipe the phone completely no big deal. Just load into bootloader select recovery then mount the usb storage upload a custom ROM CleanROM, AOKP or CM9 your choice really and then unmount usb storage then flash the custom ROM all fixed.
PS the reason your got stuck is when you wipe /system that wipes the ROM completely.
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Thanks man, I did and it works!!! Thanks million times hehe Enjoying the custom ROM
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Hey Guys,
I tried pretty much everything and don't know what else to do. My phone just stays stuck on the android screen. I forget that the "SD card" in this phone is actually part of internal storage, I did a factory reset and lost everything.
I tried flashing different boot.img and getting nothing. I'm afraid I need to get a rom onto the sd card but how is that possible if I cant get my phone to boot up.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
volume down button+power button try this combination until u get in the bootloader then select recovery. once in recovery just restore a backup if you have one, you should have one
i dont have a backup and i have nothing on my "sd" to i can install. I have formatted the ROM and thats why it wont boot..
If you can get into Recovery (CWM) in the advanced settings if i remember, there's a "format sd card" to make it work with the installation of a custom ROM
I posted a tutorial for how to do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
brwetz said:
I posted a tutorial for how to do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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thanks for the guide but im getting error mounting /sdcard. and if i follow cannondale0815 solution for that problem when flashing the stock and cwm I cannot access recovery mode.
Clear Storage in fastboot and re-install CWM then try it. That's how I got mine to work
Ok if your bootloader is locked and you have a custom recovery first flash stock recovery then boot into fastboot and run "fastboot oem lock" After that restart your phone and boot back into fastboot. Then run the RUU for your model and cid. easy.
Follow the steps which might work
1, If you knows something about adb, you can just simply push a rom into the sdcard(You don't need to do this if there is already a flashable rom in the sdcard), flash the kernel in fastboot, go to the recovery, wipe and flash a new rom. Then everything(except your data) should be fine
2, If you are not able to use adb push, or you have never flashed a recovery/3rd-party rom/ or you have other issues:
Using the RUU updater might be safe and simple (of course everything except those in the sdcard will lost)
a, relock the hboot using "fastboot oem lock"(or the RUU will refuse to continue)
b, run the RUU updater, wait for ~10min, your phone will be "refreshed" to something like the 1st day you bought it, except the Hboot will say it is "RELOCKED s-on"(this should be LOCKED s-on at first)
c，unlock your phone again(if you have stored the .bin file for unlock, just push it to your phone in the fastboot mode which is enough already, it is not needed to do the whole process in HTCDEV again.)
IMPORTANT: the RUU updater and the phone must be the same area. for example an Europe's RUU can't be applid to an US's One S
This is also the only method to update the Radio software, unless the hboot is S-OFFed
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Hey Guys,
I tried pretty much everything and don't know what else to do. My phone just stays stuck on the android screen. I forget that the "SD card" in this phone is actually part of internal storage, I did a factory reset and lost everything.
I tried flashing different boot.img and getting nothing. I'm afraid I need to get a rom onto the sd card but how is that possible if I cant get my phone to boot up.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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So I was cruising around the Nexus S forums and found a rom I liked after I unlocked and rooted my phone.
I flashed Paranoid Android and then flashed the Matr1x kernel. Thus putting me in a neverending bootloop.
No ability to go back to CWM so I can't restore. And I can't put it in download mode so no ODIN.
What the heck do I do?
Can anyone help?
BTW if this is actually called a soft brick I'm sorry my terminology might be off.
Also I did this because the last phone I did extensive flashing with was an HTC Inspire 4G and it was easy to flash stuff just clear everything and flash what you wanted no bootloops. Sadly this phone not so much.
Hmm... No recovery...I've been stuck in a bootloop but I had recovery!
Sorry for the useless post, I cant help you..
Are you able to get into bootloader?
Usually when a bootloop occurs you should still be able to go in recovery.
When you say "no ability to access CWM" do you mean ROM Manager? Or the recovery mode?
What happens when you try to access the recovery mode?
same issue like urs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775933
try clean install;
flash Rom-Wiper.zip
flash Dalvik-Wiper.zip
then;
factory reset,
Format the system, data, cache, boot & partitions of your device.
I mean no access to recovery. CWM is Clock Work Mod Recovery. I have no access to fastboot either. The only thing my phone can do is bootloop.
You have to be mistaken.
Press power and volume up to get into fastboot ( bootloader). Then pick recovery....
That rom or kernel will not erase recovery. If your phone is in a bootloop it is making it past the bootloader
So it appears it as if I was mistaken. I got into fastboot and booted into CWM I'm still confused as to what I did, but I think I corrupted the Kernel.
It was the weirdest thing though. I tried it at least a dozen times, then I tried to run down the battery and try it again afterwards, and it didn't work so I gave up. Then I tried it again about 5 minutes ago and it worked. I'm sorry I cause you guys so much confusion. I've been doing this for so long I guess I just didn't doubt I was doing it right.
Hi all,
So, last night I successfully rooted and unlocked my One X on AT&T. Today, I tried putting a ROM on it. I flashed the boot.img first, then tried to install the ROM (Jelly Bean Sense). It failed for some reason, so I wiped and rebooted my phone.
Instead of going back to the stock ROM, the phone now will not turn on, is not recognized on both laptops I tried, and does not recognize even being charged. The only thing that happens is when I press down the power button, all of the soft keys illuminate and flash until I stop holding it. I've managed to get into the bootloader screen once, but the phone reset itself before I could do anything.
The only screen I can get to with the Vol Down+Power combo is the HTC Screen, but it's the one that shows before my custom recovery, with some warning from HTC in red letters at the bottom.
At this point, I just want a phone that works. This is a lot more complex [for me] than rooting and flashing a ROM to the Inspire I had for some reason. I fly out for vacation in two days for a few weeks, so I'd like to be able to avoid having to send this thing back to HTC or AT&T if possible.
ANY help is greatly appreciated.
If it's easier, feel free to Skype chat me.
Thanks!
Im confused.. it won't come on, but you can get to recovery? If you can manually boot into twrp you'll be fine.. may I ask which Rom you flashed? Did you flash the boot.img first? Or after you flashed Rom? Alot of guys will say flash boot.img first.. I don't have that funky hboot but I have to do my cousins alot and his will only boot correctly if I flash Rom first, then boot into bootloader and fastboot the boot.img.
Try that and let me know how it goes
Also... Let go of all the buttons when you see the white screen lol. That means you found bootloader
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Im confused.. it won't come on, but you can get to recovery? If you can manually boot into twrp you'll be fine.. may I ask which Rom you flashed? Did you flash the boot.img first? Or after you flashed Rom? Alot of guys will say flash boot.img first.. I don't have that funky hboot but I have to do my cousins alot and his will only boot correctly if I flash Rom first, then boot into bootloader and fastboot the boot.img.
Try that and let me know how it goes
Also... Let go of all the buttons when you see the white screen lol. That means you found bootloader
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I can get it to boot into the Bootloader screen and the TWRP now just fine, but that's as far as it will go. The internal SD will not mount with TWRP either now.
Here's the ROM I tried to flash: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055490
I put it on my SD card, then extracted the boot.img to the folder I have my dab/fastboot files in, then flashed the boot.img, then tried to flash the ROM.
If I can get it working again, I'll try to do it in reverse order next time and see if that works. Still trying to find a way to get a ROM on here with my Mac, and to make my SD card work again. Everything on it is backed up so it's ok if I need to wipe it.
If you can get to bootloader, you're not bricked. It's just a matter of flashing the right stuff in the right order.
It could be that your sdcard is corrupted. Factory reset from bootloader will do it, but fixing it just a matter of formatting it again. Can you mount it on your computer? What happens when you plug into your PC?
Your sdcard is corrupt. No big deal but you'll lose everything. Plug it in into computer and locate the storage and try to find a way to format it. Sorry, I have no clue with a mac I swore off apple products :thumbup:
Anyway, you seem to know the ropes for the most part. If you can format, drag Rom onto SD. Wipe everything in twrp. Cache, dalvick, factory reset, system. Flash Rom.. immediately boot into bootloader and fastboot the boot.img. choose reboot from bootloader. Good luck!
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Yep, I also suggest doing a factory reset from the bootloader ( which will erase your internal storage) but at least you'll be able to mount your SD card, put a ROM on it and flash it. I would highly recommended you to flash viper 3.0.0, you don't need to flash the boot.img and its pretty much stock JB with some tweaks.
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I am having this same problem (minus the custom screen).
My phone will boot into TWRP and all, but it won't mount (PC says the disk needs to be formatted before it can be used). When I go to reboot or anything from TWRP, it tells me there is no OS installed and am I sure.
Can anyone help?
That's good news!
I tried doing a factory reset from bootloader, but nothing happened. Maybe because the SD card won't mount?
I only have a Mac, with no PC in sight. It doesn't show up at all on here. Fastboot USB, or when I mount it as USB in TWRP. It does however show up as a device in recovery in terminal. But nothing on the desktop. Apple+Android do not mix well!
I'm ok with losing my data, what I'm not OK with is having to use this pink Razr while my nice phone is broken :'(
Thanks for all the help so far!
I do a factory reset from bootloader, it takes me into TWRP. Now is the only time it will even remotely show up on my laptop, and even then it's only via terminal when I do adb devices. Since it can't mount for some reason, is there a way to reformat via Terminal, and maybe even push the ROM to my phone from there? That's something I'm not familiar with.
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I do a factory reset from bootloader, it takes me into TWRP. Now is the only time it will even remotely show up on my laptop, and even then it's only via terminal when I do adb devices. Since it can't mount for some reason, is there a way to reformat via Terminal, and maybe even push the ROM to my phone from there? That's something I'm not familiar with.
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Format your sd..drag Rom..wipe..flash..enjoy
omario8484 said:
Format your sd..drag Rom..wipe..flash..enjoy
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I can't format because it doesn't show up on my computer, and doing so in bootloader takes me to TWRP.
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I am having this same problem (minus the custom screen).
My phone will boot into TWRP and all, but it won't mount (PC says the disk needs to be formatted before it can be used). When I go to reboot or anything from TWRP, it tells me there is no OS installed and am I sure.
Can anyone help?
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Hey dude, I followed their advice (dug out my XP machine) and now my SD card is re-formatted.
Get into the bootloader screen, hit factory reset. (When I did this on mine, it took me right to TWRP)
From there, I mounted as USB and it showed up as needing to be reformatted on my XP machine. Took a few minutes to do on this dinosaur, but it worked, cause everything is gone!
Right now I'm in the process of zipping up the Viper XL ROM (thanks for the recommendation barondebxl, it looks awesome!), which I'll put onto my SD card and wipe/flash from there. (on my Mac now).
Hopefully it works!
I'm unable to flash ROMs for some reason. It doesn't give an error, just says that it failed. Any ideas?
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Get into the bootloader screen, hit factory reset.
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No no no. This is what is corrupting your sdcard. Only do a factory reset in TWRP or once booted up. Start over and format again. Then copy over your rom.
When you and a few others mentioned doing it, what were you referring to?
I've tried three different ROMs now, and each fails without saying why in TWRP.
Problem solved! Got the stock RUU back on there and it works perfectly. Just re-rooted and unlocked again. Round two..
I been lurking on XDA for a long time just have made any posts, lots of great info has been found here and I usually find my answers without having to ask, that is till now. This might be a long post but I want to give the best information possible to get the best help. I recently updated my tf300t to jb4.2 and that's when the bottom fell out. First I thought I was bricked, flashed the update and it booted fine, flashed twrp and it booted fine, tried flashing Energy rom and that's when it started. Twrp would not mount cache, sd, nothing. Then after rebooting it would give the Asus screen with unlocked bootloader in the top then go straight to twrp, where I could not flash anything. I finally got it to reboot to fastboot where I can reboot to jb but if turned off it will still load straight to twrp and I have to adb fastboot reboot to the RCK android wipe screen and load jb from there using the android. I have tried wiping from that screen, wiping from twrp and even adb push the rom again to wipe with no success. When adb pushing any recovery or rom/software it seems to take but have to manually reboot with power button after to get it to reboot. I tried adb pushing different recoveries with no success along with Energy rom, no success. To me its like I have a dual partition on the storage. Is there any way to wipe everything completely clean and start fresh? Without using recovery since it is not working.
Sounds like you have bricked like a lot of other people. There is a guide in General. Which version of TWRP did you use on the latest bootloader. If it was not TEWRP 2.4.40 or the patched version then you have bricked unfortuntely.....
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Sounds like you have bricked like a lot of other people. There is a guide in General. Which version of TWRP did you use on the latest bootloader. If it was not TEWRP 2.4.40 or the patched version then you have bricked unfortuntely.....
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I haven't bricked yet, it still works. I just have to adb reboot to bootloader if I power it down and restart it. I just cant wipe it and reinstall anything. I dont remember right off which version of TWRP I did use, but it wont mount anything to allow me to wipe or install from it though.
So recently, I was trying to flash something, I forgot, all I know that it was not a ROM and I was stuck on the android is upgrading, took too long so I wiped through TWRP, still wont boot. I can see what is on my phone through file explorer and nothing is there but twrp. I really messed up this time e.e. I am open for teamviewer.
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So recently, I was trying to flash something, I forgot, all I know that it was not a ROM and I was stuck on the android is upgrading, took too long so I wiped through TWRP, still wont boot. I can see what is on my phone through file explorer and nothing is there but twrp. I really messed up this time e.e. I am open for teamviewer.
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I tried doing fastboot oem unlock, but this takes me to TWRP recovery.
How on earth do you not know what you were flashing? It's no wonder your phone is in the state it's in right now. That's just crazy bad. Any why are you trying to unlock the bootloader again? If you have TWRP recovery installed it must already be unlocked unless you deliberately relocked it again. Anyway, looks like you've wiped everything, including your internal storage. The best idea right now is flash fresh with fastboot using the stock images.
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