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I had my phone rooted and unlocked and was also using CleanROM 4.1 before I decided today to change to CleanROM 4.5.
So, I downloaded the file and went to Recovery and flashed it (it did take very little time with flashing which I found rather strange.) When I rebooted, the phone was stuck at the HTC screen. I figured that I MIGHT have had CWM installed and I didn't know it (I can't be quite 100% sure of this as I thought I DID have TWRP since it was a touch recovery that I had.) Since I was able to boot back up to Fastboot, I said "Let me flash the TWRP recovery file and try again".....Well, I did that and according to the Command Prompt it was successful (showed sending, writing, finished etc....) Once finished, I rebooted back and all I see now is the TeamWin logo in Recovery and THAT'S IT. It won't give me any menu options. If I let it sit, it will reboot back to the HTC screen.
What are my options right now? Is there a specific file I can flash through Fastboot that will allow me to proceed?
I would appreciate the help and I'll be sure to come back and let you know how successful I was. :fingers-crossed:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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Try flashing the boot.IMG from the the zipped ROM you were trying to flash to boot partition through the bootloader (cmd in windows: fastboot flash boot boot.img[enter] after you put The boot.img in the same folder as the adb & cd to that folder) and flash cwm for recovery, then you can reflash twrp
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Try flashing the boot.IMG from the the zipped ROM you were trying to flash to boot partition through the bootloader (cmd in windows: fastboot flash boot boot.img[enter] after you put The boot.img in the same folder as the adb & cd to that folder) and flash cwm for recovery, then you can reflash twrp
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I will definitely be trying that. Will be back in a couple of hours and let you know how it went. Thank you!
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I had my phone rooted and unlocked and was also using CleanROM 4.1 before I decided today to change to CleanROM 4.5.
So, I downloaded the file and went to Recovery and flashed it (it did take very little time with flashing which I found rather strange.) When I rebooted, the phone was stuck at the HTC screen. I figured that I MIGHT have had CWM installed and I didn't know it (I can't be quite 100% sure of this as I thought I DID have TWRP since it was a touch recovery that I had.) Since I was able to boot back up to Fastboot, I said "Let me flash the TWRP recovery file and try again".....Well, I did that and according to the Command Prompt it was successful (showed sending, writing, finished etc....) Once finished, I rebooted back and all I see now is the TeamWin logo in Recovery and THAT'S IT. It won't give me any menu options. If I let it sit, it will reboot back to the HTC screen.
What are my options right now? Is there a specific file I can flash through Fastboot that will allow me to proceed?
I would appreciate the help and I'll be sure to come back and let you know how successful I was. :fingers-crossed:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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In the future I suggest factory wipe even if going from CR to CR. Also, make sure to check the MD5 once you move the file on to your storage.
Butters619 said:
In the future I suggest factory wipe even if going from CR to CR. Also, make sure to check the MD5 once you move the file on to your storage.
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I did do the factory wipe.
By the way, I tried what I was told to do and nothing happened. It successfully flashes the boot image and recovery, but when it tries to boot into the recovery, it just freezes in the recovery with the word TEAMWIN and a blue background....No menu or options.... I did try several different ways by downloading and installing several versions of the CWM and TWRP, but no success. Any other suggestions? Will I be stuck with this piece of brick now? Please help.
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****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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^That right there is normal by the way and will always be there.
Looks like it's time for you to relock your bootloader (don't worry you can unlock it again), download an RUU, and try again.
Butters619 said:
^That right there is normal by the way and will always be there.
Looks like it's time for you to relock your bootloader (don't worry you can unlock it again), download an RUU, and try again.
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Ughh! Do you know if I will lose any documents/pictures that are in my USB storage? Which RUU do you think is the best in my case? Thanks!
bbonline said:
Ughh! Do you know if I will lose any documents/pictures that are in my USB storage? Which RUU do you think is the best in my case? Thanks!
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You will lose the contents of your SD card, which is why you should back that up before flashing. Since you were on CR 4.1, I would go with the 1.85 RUU. If you use 2.20, you will add an extra step or two in when it comes to flashing ROMs. But hey, your phone should work again!
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You will lose the contents of your SD card, which is why you should back that up before flashing. Since you were on CR 4.1, I would go with the 1.85 RUU. If you use 2.20, you will add an extra step or two in when it comes to flashing ROMs. But hey, your phone should work again!
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I know, silly me. Usually I backup the data and everything goes well and when I don't, there goes my luck! I really appreciate the suggestion.
One quick question, if in the future I need to have the phone sent in for warranty, is this the same procedure I need to follow? Relock and flash an RUU? Will they not know it had been unlocked before?
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I know, silly me. Usually I backup the data and everything goes well and when I don't, there goes my luck! I really appreciate the suggestion.
One quick question, if in the future I need to have the phone sent in for warranty, is this the same procedure I need to follow? Relock and flash an RUU? Will they not know it had been unlocked before?
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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Darn.... I just hope I don't have to deal with sending it for any repair. Gave you thanks!
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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But only if they reboot and look, which from what I've seen here, they never seem to do.
iElvis said:
But only if they reboot and look, which from what I've seen here, they never seem to do.
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I took my One X back to Best Buy to swap it out just before the return policy expired because my gf dropped it and put a small dent in the casing and I didn't even bother to relock or even RUU my device. I said I had a software issue and couldn't get the OTA. They turned it on and played with it and it had a custom boot animation and a ROM on it lol. They also couldn't get the OTA so they approved the return.
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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it doesn't say RELOCKED when you run an RUU. It gets rid of everything like Tampered and Unlocked and returns the phone to LOCKED. like it came
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I took my One X back to Best Buy to swap it out just before the return policy expired because my gf dropped it and put a small dent in the casing and I didn't even bother to relock or even RUU my device. I said I had a software issue and couldn't get the OTA. They turned it on and played with it and it had a custom boot animation and a ROM on it lol. They also couldn't get the OTA so they approved the return.
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hahaha, thank god for company cutbacks sometimes... it makes the employees not give a ****. and rightfully so too!!
the fact that companies cut back to make a few more billion dollars makes me sick anyways. but this is not the place for this conversation. carry-on
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it doesn't say RELOCKED when you run an RUU. It gets rid of everything like Tampered and Unlocked and returns the phone to LOCKED. like it came
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hahaha, thank god for company cutbacks sometimes... it makes the employees not give a ****. and rightfully so too!!
the fact that companies cut back to make a few more billion dollars makes me sick anyways. but this is not the place for this conversation. carry-on
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Nope once you unlocked it won't ever say locked again. Just re-locked
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Nope once you unlocked it won't ever say locked again. Just re-locked
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
trichrome1 said:
not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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You should probably double check that. Anybody with an AT&T One X had to have SuperCID to unlock their bootloader so that wouldn't matter. I have unlocked two AT&T One Xs and run the 1.85 RUU on both (one of them a couple times) and I have run the 2.20 RUU on one. every time it says RELOCKED.
Mine did this to when going to 4.5.
I did the following to get back into Recovery.
Use fastboot to flash the boot.img from the cleanrom 4.5 zip.
"fastboot flash boot boot.img"
I then flashed the recovery (TWRP 2.2.1.4 at the moment) again to the phone.
next I erased Cache.
"fastboot erase cache"
I then used the phone itself to reboot the bootloader and went into recovery. It took about 10 minutes but recovery finally booted.
At this point I had no access to anything on the SD card. so I selected mount and mounted the sd card as disk drive to access it through my PC. I was forced to format the drive at this point and loaded a fresh copy of the ROM onto the drive for flashing.
You probably just got a wrong recovery. The recovery on twrp website didn't work for me. The one I downloaded from the development section works fine.
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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Screenshots PLS
Phone was rooted using TWRP. I locked the bootloader and now I can't boot up into anything but the page with the TAMPERED RELOCKED screen, also has bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. Am I screwed? I just wanted to revert my rooted phone back to the original OS and it's been a freaking NIGHTMARE ):
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Phone was rooted using TWRP. I locked the bootloader and now I can't boot up into anything but the page with the TAMPERED RELOCKED screen, also has bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. Am I screwed? I just wanted to revert my rooted phone back to the original OS and it's been a freaking NIGHTMARE ):
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So you've relocked the bootloader, and then nothing else?
Run the RUU from the bootloader screen. Make sure the RUU is for YOUR phone
That's the thing, I can't get into it! I can't get into that screen where I could access stuff to INSTALL, MOUNT, etc.. it keeps taking me to the white screen with bootloader,reboot, etc.
XHaGGeNx said:
That's the thing, I can't get into it! I can't get into that screen where I could access stuff to INSTALL, MOUNT, etc.. it keeps taking me to the white screen with bootloader,reboot, etc.
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Seeing as though you have relocked the bootloader you can either a. unlock the phone again so you can install a custom rom or b. run a ruu to get it back to stock.
Yeah because the problem is i have no OS to boot into. It just goes into recovery mode. Can you point me in the direction on how I can unlock the bootloader again?
XHaGGeNx said:
Yeah because the problem is i have no OS to boot into. It just goes into recovery mode. Can you point me in the direction on how I can unlock the bootloader again?
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No no no. You said you wanted to go back to stock correct?
Download your stock RUU, and run from that white menu that says RE-LOCKED at the top. That's your bootloader
Ok, when you mean run from that white menu that says RELOCKED, how can I run it from that menu if I cant get into anything from this menu? Do you mean just run the RUU program from my computer and have my phone connected to the PC? I used to be able to go into that TWRP screen when i was in bootloader but now I can't.
XHaGGeNx said:
Ok, that's what I am doing already. I am downloading the RUU for my phone. Hope to gawd this will save my phone. I am just worried because it's literally stuck at this bootloader menu screen. I can't do anything else.
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Believe me, the fact your screen is on is a sign you are not bricked. Run the RUU (Make sure it's one that is easily rootable, like the 1.85 for ATT), and go through the process of bootloader and unlock and rooting. Hope this helped
I am glad to hear that. It's almost done downloading, about 4 minutes left. I really want to thank you for helping me out here. I am such a screw up with this stuff. Sigh. anyways, I'll let you know what happens here shortly. Thank you so much once again. Really..
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
It's working! It's updating and everything. Phew! No offense taken, I hear ya and agree. Just being a noob at all this can put me into a lot of trouble. I have learned a lot of stuff though lol. Anyways, thank you everyone for helping me! I should be good from here
Glad to hear its working
Cheers man, good to hear everything is fixed.
If you need anything else, contact me. There are a bunch of ways to.
As for rooting again? Just read up and you'll be set.
mgutierrez87 said:
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
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Hate to bump heads with ya dude but this isn't the way to be, I frown upon threads like this as well but I encourage others to root no matter who they are. Granted they do need to take the time to research what they are doing and how to get themselves out of a hole like this but someone has to help them learn
This is a community working towards a common goal, you never know maybe this dude will make his way towards development somewhere in the future. Or more likely since others helped him in his time in need he will turn around and try to do the same for someone else
Just my two cents
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2
mgutierrez87 said:
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
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A simple "Be more careful next time because of ..." would have been just fine.
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Hate to bump heads with ya dude but this isn't the way to be, I frown upon threads like this as well but I encourage others to root no matter who they are. Granted they do need to take the time to research what they are doing and how to get themselves out of a hole like this but someone has to help them learn
This is a community working towards a common goal, you never know maybe this dude will make his way towards development somewhere in the future. Or more likely since others helped him in his time in need he will turn around and try to do the same for someone else
Just my two cents
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My apologies. We had been PMing for over an hour before this thread trying to get his phone back. I came off a little rude on that last post but he knows how hard I was trying to help him and that he can always come here for answers. Most forum guys would tell him to "search it"
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how did you fix your phone i almost have same problem
He didn't delete ROM, recovery or anything. He relocked his bootloader. It just won't let you reboot unless you relock with a stock recovery flashed.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982968
Could u guys stop by my thread and help me out?
I kinda have the same problem, and RUU tells me phone is off, error 170.
Thanks
hello
having (what i am now convinced is) a hardware issue with my phone, where it periodically shuts itself down, typically when its idle, although it has happened when i have been using it. Have to do a long press on the thing (around 15-20 seconds), to bring it back to life
Its a Telstra HTC One XL.
phone doesnt seem to be overheating etc.
i have rooted, s-off'd, superCIDd, the thing, so when its booting, i am met with tampered/unlocked in hboot, with the initial HTC splashscreen saying that this build is for dev purposes.
have tried numerous ROMs etc, and am now back on a stock/rooted telstra rom.
Interestingly, the phone never locks up/shuts down when in recovery or fastboot (have left for a good 30 minutes/1 hr)
i am looking for a simple way to revert everything back to its original state, i know that if i simply re-lock the bootloader, it comes up with 'relocked', have looked at some other posts which say that you can use a hex editor to change the hboot text.
i am curious, if i wipe out all the relocked/tampered stuff, and then reflash the stock RUU, will that reset the hboot etc? i think i need to relock to reflash the stock RUU.
i am tempted to just hex edit the hboot stuff, uninstall SuperSU from the phone, and hopefully the repair guys arent that smart and dont look beyond some basic stuff..
the 'this build is for htc dev purposes' might be more difficult to remove...
Telstra wont do a warranty repair on a rooted phone!
if anyone has any ideas to the cause of the shutdowns, troubleshooting suggests, that would be great... there are no weird or wonderful apps installed
First thing is definitely try to RUU. If that doesn't work, I (or someone else) will help you after that.
You can remove the red text on the splash screen pretty easily, here's a link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156368
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yeah, thats the red text (tampered), will that get overwritten if i relock and then RUU? (i am pretty sure i will need to relock before RUU)
also, whats the standard text on the hboot screen? (if you havent super CIDd)
If you are s-off you don't need to relock to run the RUU.
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ok, so try the RUU, see if that fixes the shutdowns? if it doesnt, use that util to change all the hboot text, and take it back to the shop, and see if they are to dumb to notice?
Yep I think that's the best plan. RUU it and keep running that for a couple of days to see if you have an improvement. If not, it's likely a hardware issue.
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ok, cool, and do you know if i need to re-unlock the bootlader after the RUU? or if i am s-off i can change the hboot text etc?
gjw00 said:
ok, cool, and do you know if i need to re-unlock the bootlader after the RUU? or if i am s-off i can change the hboot text etc?
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There's no need to relock the boot loader if you're s-off. You can change the hboot and some bootloader text using the tool in the Android Development forum for this phone.
Pretty sure its hardware, same after ruu installed. At least now it restarts, usually after shutting off screen or taking off charger. Gonna use that util to change text back to s-on etc, doesn't say tampered, which is cool (must be ruu). What do I need to set to get rod of the cid-1111111 entry in hboot? What is default Telstra text? Hopefully they won't dig too deep.in the repaier shop!!
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Pretty sure its hardware, same after ruu installed. At least now it restarts, usually after shutting off screen or taking off charger. Gonna use that util to change text back to s-on etc, doesn't say tampered, which is cool (must be ruu). What do I need to set to get rod of the cid-1111111 entry in hboot? What is default Telstra text? Hopefully they won't dig too deep.in the repaier shop!!
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Ok so you'll need to RUU, relock the bootloader, change the text, change the CID, and the last thing you'll want to do is make it s-on.
The fastboot command to change the cid is:
fastboot oem writecid TELST001
I can't remember the command to make it s-on again, Google that, but it s-off be the very last thing you do after all other steps.
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cant i just change all the text, to make it 'look like' its s-off etc?
sorry for all the questions, do i just need s-off to write the hboot text etc?
I don't think you can change the s-off text. I think you can only change the tampered/unlocked/relocked text.
And yes you need s-off to write change that text and to change the CID back.
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thanks for the tips, i think that util changes text to s-off, although it might be better, to set everything back as normal (RUUd/relocked/s-off), at one point i thought that reverting all that stuff was not possible...
cannot get rid of the **RELOCKED** text.. that little util doesnt seem to remove that
Hmm you might be SOL then. Telstra are pretty strict when it comes to this stuff I think. I know Optus are, I used to work for a place did that took care of Optus repairs and warranties.
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managed to do it, now says ***LOCKED***, had to reunlock bootloader for that text to change
Good outcome, got all bootloader text back to standard, put the ruu on. Telstra repaired I within a few days by essentially giving me a brand new phone. All the battery issues (very fast standby drain) are also gone.
2 days in and resisting the temptation to root!
OK.. here we go.. I bought my VERIZON M8 the day it was released. I came to this site, after having successfully put the viper Timon my DNA. Not exactly.new to this but I'm in a bit of a mess. I have tampered above unlocked on my bootloader screen and when I boot into the ROM I am using... A message flashes at the bottom saying for development use only and other legal stuff from HTC. What steps can I take to remove those? I have permanent s-off and weaksauce still installed. Is there a toolkit like for the m7 or am I missing something? Help is appreciated.
Joeymaz73 said:
OK.. here we go.. I bought my VERIZON M8 the day it was released. I came to this site, after having successfully put the viper Timon my DNA. Not exactly.new to this but I'm in a bit of a mess. I have tampered above unlocked on my bootloader screen and when I boot into the ROM I am using... A message flashes at the bottom saying for development use only and other legal stuff from HTC. What steps can I take to remove those? I have permanent s-off and weaksauce still installed. Is there a toolkit like for the m7 or am I missing something? Help is appreciated.
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I see a message about "Development use only for HTC" or whatever when booting into the bootloader (or recovery...or both...I can't remember), but it doesn't affect anything. Is that what you're referring to? Also, remove Weaksauce like the S-Off instructions told you to do.
And what exactly is this "mess" you're in? If a message flashes across your screen and then your phone finishes booting into the ROM, that doesn't exactly sound like a mess to me...
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I see a message about "Development use only for HTC" or whatever when booting into the bootloader (or recovery...or both...I can't remember), but it doesn't affect anything. Is that what you're referring to? Also, remove Weaksauce like the S-Off instructions told you to do.
And what exactly is this "mess" you're in? If a message flashes across your screen and then your phone finishes booting into the ROM, that doesn't exactly sound like a mess to me...
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I guess I'm just ocd. I dont like seeing those messages if i dont have to.I had originally. Removed weaksauce.. but put it back on when the permanent. Root didn't take effect properly. Is everyone seeing tampered? If not I'd prefer to be able to get rid of it as well.
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I guess I'm just ocd. I dont like seeing those messages if i dont have to.I had originally. Removed weaksauce.. but put it back on when the permanent. Root didn't take effect properly. Is everyone seeing tampered? If not I'd prefer to be able to get rid of it as well.
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If flashing the superuser zip didn't work correctly for you, that's an issue you should probably look into...
Like I said, I don't see it say "tampered", I just see the "This build is for development purposes only" message when I boot into recovery. You're sure you see it when booting normally into the ROM itself?
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If flashing the superuser zip didn't work correctly for you, that's an issue you should probably look into...
Like I said, I don't see it say "tampered", I just see the "This build is for development purposes only" message when I boot into recovery. You're sure you see it when booting normally into the ROM itself?
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go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709976
kwkw480 said:
go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709976
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Yeah, but unless if he also flashed a custom boot.img (or a ROM that has a custom boot.img included), or is actually booting into recovery when he sees it, he shouldn't be seeing it when he boots into the ROM itself.
Edit: I just misread the OP, apparently he may be using a custom ROM, I didn't notice that before.
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Yeah, but unless if he also flashed a custom boot.img (or a ROM that has a custom boot.img included), or is actually booting into recovery when he sees it, he shouldn't be seeing it when he boots into the ROM itself.
Edit: I just misread the OP, apparently he may be using a custom ROM, I didn't notice that before.
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Sorry Guys, I should have told you which ROM I had flashed to.. SKYFALL★| |►1.12.605.11◄|4.4.2|VZW||ODEX/DEODEX||►1.2◄|April.10. I'll follow the directions pointed to in the thread above when I get home.. Still leaves me with "tampered" when I boot into recovery or bootloader.
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Ok.. That zip file, for the red letters worked great. thank you..
after a bunch of searching.. I found this..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708565
thanks for everyone's help. I appreciate everything you do.
Or you can go here where there are a variety of options including making your phone look like it is still s-on
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2710503
Thanks for that tool page. I love learning new things about these phones. 20 years I've just been a PC guy.. learning how to do some of this can be tricky. Thank goodness for this forum and the people on it.
So its been a while since I've been to xda so I hope I'm posting this in the right section.
Just so you know, I realize that what I did I will probably never be able to fix, I just want to make sure before I go before google on my knees and beg for mercy. I'm also aware that what I did is so stupid and unforgivable that I should never be allowed to root a device ever again. With that out of the way, here is my problem.
I just had my pixel replaced after my previous one had hardware problems, that are irreverent to this topic. I was setting it up to be my daily driver again, so I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, loaded a few systemUI mods and the elementalx kernel. I had it working really well, but one thing was bugging me. That stupid notification that you get every time you boot up with the bootloader unlocked. I hated it. I got to thinking about it today, and I thought "Could it be possible to relock the bootloader with the changes that I made and have it still work?" I was thinking that once the mods were put in, it shouldn't matter whether or not the bootloader was unlocked or not cause the changes were already made. So I did the unthinkable and relocked my bootloader after I did all the stuff listed above.
So yes I major bricked my device by doing this, and yes I'm a major idiot for thinking that locking the bootloader was an OK thing to do. I can still get into fastboot mode, but thats it. When I try to boot into the system, it flashes the splash screen for about .5 seconds then goes black for 2 seconds then repeats. It does the same thing in recovery mode so adb side loading firmware is out of the question. I can't use fastboot boot whatever.img cause the bootloader is locked. I can't fastboot wipe userdata or mess with the system in any way via fastboot. And to top it all off, I cant reunlock the bootloader because it requires that an option be checked in the system that I now can't boot into.
This is a last ditch effort to see if I can fix this device myself, or if I need to go to google and pray they let me rma my device a second time
Any Ideas?
-MightyMouse- said:
So its been a while since I've been to xda so I hope I'm posting this in the right section.
Just so you know, I realize that what I did I will probably never be able to fix, I just want to make sure before I go before google on my knees and beg for mercy. I'm also aware that what I did is so stupid and unforgivable that I should never be allowed to root a device ever again. With that out of the way, here is my problem.
I just had my pixel replaced after my previous one had hardware problems, that are irreverent to this topic. I was setting it up to be my daily driver again, so I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, loaded a few systemUI mods and the elementalx kernel. I had it working really well, but one thing was bugging me. That stupid notification that you get every time you boot up with the bootloader unlocked. I hated it. I got to thinking about it today, and I thought "Could it be possible to relock the bootloader with the changes that I made and have it still work?" I was thinking that once the mods were put in, it shouldn't matter whether or not the bootloader was unlocked or not cause the changes were already made. So I did the unthinkable and relocked my bootloader after I did all the stuff listed above.
So yes I major bricked my device by doing this, and yes I'm a major idiot for thinking that locking the bootloader was an OK thing to do. I can still get into fastboot mode, but thats it. When I try to boot into the system, it flashes the splash screen for about .5 seconds then goes black for 2 seconds then repeats. It does the same thing in recovery mode so adb side loading firmware is out of the question. I can't use fastboot boot whatever.img cause the bootloader is locked. I can't fastboot wipe userdata or mess with the system in any way via fastboot. And to top it all off, I cant reunlock the bootloader because it requires that an option be checked in the system that I now can't boot into.
This is a last ditch effort to see if I can fix this device myself, or if I need to go to google and pray they let me rma my device a second time
Any Ideas?
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Well I'm not sure of this, but can't you unlock your bootloader through adb? If so then just flash the stock image.. I also saw a post somewhere about restoring your phone with a locked bootloader. Again this is just a suggestion but worth looking into.
-MightyMouse- said:
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I'll not chastise you for what you did, I've locked the bl after making changes too although I never did care about the splash screen. I just don't look at it after a reboot, hold it until it vibrates and then log in. But I understand you not liking is since I've seen other posts about trying to get rid of it. But... your only mistake was flipping the OEM unlock switch. You could have relocked the bl with that switch still enabled and not have the splash screen any longer.
So at this point you have to beg for a replacement. I don't think they'll give you a hard time about it if you're honest as you were here. You might get some suggestions from others so good luck. You did try to factory reset in recovery right? Oh just looked and you can't get into recovery. What happens when you try from bl menu? You don't even see the android little guy saying "no command"?
quinejh said:
Well I'm not sure of this, but can't you unlock your bootloader through adb? If so then just flash the stock image.. I also saw a post somewhere about restoring your phone with a locked bootloader. Again this is just a suggestion but worth looking into.
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Thanks for answering. I had looked into this, but the only way that you could do that is adb sideloading an ota from google. That can only be done by the recovery which is now borked.
bobby janow said:
I'll not chastise you for what you did, I've locked the bl after making changes too although I never did care about the splash screen. I just don't look at it after a reboot, hold it until it vibrates and then log in. But I understand you not liking is since I've seen other posts about trying to get rid of it. But... your only mistake was flipping the OEM unlock switch. You could have relocked the bl with that switch still enabled and not have the splash screen any longer.
So at this point you have to beg for a replacement. I don't think they'll give you a hard time about it if you're honest as you were here. You might get some suggestions from others so good luck. You did try to factory reset in recovery right? Oh just looked and you can't get into recovery. What happens when you try from bl menu? You don't even see the android little guy saying "no command"?
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What makes me really mad is that I never disabled OEM unlock. That being said, I did see that is was disabled in settings and didn't think anything of it. I can't get into recovery at all, even through the bootloader. My guess is I borked the image that the recovery was put on as well as the system and probably a couple others. Something I know I could fix if the boot loader wasn't locked. Well I think I will get the ball rolling on an RMA then.
@-MightyMouse- When you have bootloader unlocked the option is grayed out and thereby disabled. But it does say bootloader is already unlocked so no action is needed. If you didn't switch it back over then there really is no reason that it should be disabled in the settings. When did you see it disabled if you can't get into the system? And what happens when you type the unlock command from bootloader menu? I'm locked but I think it's something like fastboot oem unlock or maybe it's changed. What does the screen say? I'm sure you tried it but I'm just curious.
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@-MightyMouse- When you have bootloader unlocked the option is grayed out and thereby disabled. But it does say bootloader is already unlocked so no action is needed. If you didn't switch it back over then there really is no reason that it should be disabled in the settings. When did you see it disabled if you can't get into the system? And what happens when you type the unlock command from bootloader menu? I'm locked but I think it's something like fastboot oem unlock or maybe it's changed. What does the screen say? I'm sure you tried it but I'm just curious.
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That was the first thing I tried. I forget what it said, but I do remember that it wouldn't let me. No matter, I already got it RMA'ed but have to wait till Monday to ship it off.
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That was the first thing I tried. I forget what it said, but I do remember that it wouldn't let me. No matter, I already got it RMA'ed but have to wait till Monday to ship it off.
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Ok cool. Good luck.
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-MightyMouse- said:
That was the first thing I tried. I forget what it said, but I do remember that it wouldn't let me. No matter, I already got it RMA'ed but have to wait till Monday to ship it off.
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So, what error shows up when you try - fastboot flashing unlock ?
After you somehow manage to unlock BL, you could try using the flash-all.bat script to quickly begin to push the images....
Edit: nvm. I see you have gone through a RMA again.
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So, what error shows up when you try - fastboot flashing unlock ?
After you somehow manage to unlock BL, you could try using the flash-all.bat script to quickly begin to push the images....
Edit: nvm. I see you have gone through a RMA again.
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The error was something like option unavailable. Went through the RMA process which was surprisingly good. Every time I've gone through it, they never ask more than one or two questions before they ask for my imei and tell me that my device could be replaced, which is great, because if I can't fix it, it just needs to be replaced anyways. In other news I got my third pixel just a couple hours ago so hopefully this one lasts me longer than a day.