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HTC One S (S3 )No SD Card Version Help.

Hi Trev here,I am a New member and hope this is posted in the correct place,I have a HTC ONE S S3 Version chip,No SD card version,has OPTUS AU Firmware on it with CID OPTUS_001,My system stopped booting when i tried to get Nova 3 game working,at the moment its not compatible for my device,but i read on the forums if i edited my Build prop I could get it working again,but sadly enough,it stopped booting the OS and i can sometimes get into the boot loader,Now the only way i can see to fix this is to get the original optus ruu and flash it but i cant find it any where,and i cannot install any of the other stock s3 roms because i don't have super CID,do you guys have any ideas,cheers Trev.

Do you know exatcly what you have changed in build.prop? You could try to boot your phone into bootloader. Adn than try to access it with adb shell. Pull the build.prop, change it back the way it was, and push it back on the phone, replacing the not working one. This might work.

+1 to the above, and if you can't remember your edits maybe grab a build.prop from one of those S3 roms. Also are you sure you can't get supercid on your phone just because it doesn't boot, are there even steps needing to be done while booted?

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qzem said:
Do you know exatcly what you have changed in build.prop? You could try to boot your phone into bootloader. Adn than try to access it with adb shell. Pull the build.prop, change it back the way it was, and push it back on the phone, replacing the not working one. This might work.
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Thanks for your reply,how do i change the build prop through adb shell,cheers.

build prop from one s s3 ruu
frdd said:
+1 to the above, and if you can't remember your edits maybe grab a build.prop from one of those S3 roms. Also are you sure you can't get supercid on your phone just because it doesn't boot, are there even steps needing to be done while booted?
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how do i get the build prop from RUU_VILLEC2_U_ICS_40_HTC_Europe_1.11.401.110_Radio_16.12.20.02U_16.05.20.16_M2_release_263510_signed as i dont know how to access the file within the ruu,cheers.

trevor3737 said:
Thanks for your reply,how do i change the build prop through adb shell,cheers.
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Code:
adb pull /system/build.prop c:\wherever
edit build.prop
adb remount
adb push c:\wherever\build.prop /system/
adb reboot
trevor3737 said:
how do i get the build prop from RUU_VILLEC2_U_ICS_40_HTC_Europe_1.11.401.110_Radio_16.12.20.02U_16.05.20.16_M2_release_263510_signed as i dont know how to access the file within the ruu,cheers.
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You have to be on Windows to run RUU, if you are just click it and let it run for a while. It'll make a zip file in a new random-named folder, similar to c:\users\username\{*******-*******-*******-*******-*****}\rom.zip check here for build.prop

re build prop
frdd said:
Code:
adb pull /system/build.prop c:\wherever
edit build.prop
adb remount
adb push c:\wherever\build.prop /system/
adb reboot
You have to be on Windows to run RUU, if you are just click it and let it run for a while. It'll make a zip file in a new random-named folder, similar to c:\users\username\{*******-*******-*******-*******-*****}\rom.zip check here for build.prop
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Does the phone have to be connected in fastboot while the ruu is running to find the zip file,because i started the ruu up without the phone connected and i cannot find the zip file,so i can look at the build.prop,cheers.

trevor3737 said:
Does the phone have to be connected in fastboot while the ruu is running to find the zip file,because i started the ruu up without the phone connected and i cannot find the zip file,so i can look at the build.prop,cheers.
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You just try the first method with pulling and pushing. It is to complicated to extract build.prop from ruu.

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qzem said:
You just try the first method with pulling and pushing. It is to complicated to extract build.prop from ruu.
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is where ever the place i send the build prop to,and when i run adb it say device not found,cheers.

Go into recovery hopefully adb will work there, if not you're limited to fast boot commands. You have to be in bootloader for fastboot to work, it'll say fastboot USB on screen if cable is plugged in. Maybe you have to have phone connected for RUU to run, and also click a few times until the "View readme" button appears until the zip is extracted to the temp dir. When I wrote wherever I mean anywhere you want the stuff

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frdd said:
Go into recovery hopefully adb will work there, if not you're limited to fast boot commands. You have to be in bootloader for fastboot to work, it'll say fastboot USB on screen if cable is plugged in. Maybe you have to have phone connected for RUU to run, and also click a few times until the "View readme" button appears until the zip is extracted to the temp dir. When I wrote wherever I mean anywhere you want the stuff
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Hi thanks for your time on this,i am so frustrated with this,When i go into recovery,i get the white screen with the Htc logo,Quietly brilliant logo and red writing about being used by developers,and it stays on there and nothing else happens,I did flash try a recovery Team Win Recovery Project but i found out it was for s4 devices only so i bet that screwed my recovery up,I am limited to fast boot commands,I suppose i will have to wait till a recovery comes out for the one s s3 chip or i find the correct optus ics branded ruu.

trevor3737 said:
Hi thanks for your time on this,i am so frustrated with this,When i go into recovery,i get the white screen with the Htc logo,Quietly brilliant logo and red writing about being used by developers,and it stays on there and nothing else happens,I did flash try a recovery Team Win Recovery Project but i found out it was for s4 devices only so i bet that screwed my recovery up,I am limited to fast boot commands,I suppose i will have to wait till a recovery comes out for the one s s3 chip or i find the correct optus ics branded ruu.
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Hmm tricky one this...
Just so we're talking about the same things, this is what the bootloader looks like:http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bootloader-unlock-htc-one.jpg
I have no idea how the HTC recovery looks, flashed CWM in a heartbeat on my VilleU...
You have read the "The Ville C (HTC One S with S3 chips) and development" thread I guess? Some guys there apparantly flashed S4 recovery and got boot issues that were fixed. check on page 5 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1719911&highlight=ruu+help&page=5
Have you unlocked the bootloader via htcdev.com? I guess so since you flashed that S4 recovery... I dont think you need more than fastboot access to do it anyways IIRC. http://htcdev.com/bootloader/preview_unlock_process
If you have, you could try paulobriens boot.img that roots your S3 device, which is neat and all but more importantly it might perhaps hopefully maybe god willing if Cthulu allows it let your phone boot once and that time it'll have insecure adb access...
http://www.modaco.com/topic/355509-testing-villec-superboot/
Also I havent run an RUU myself for a long time so dont remember if you have to be on stock recovery but I think you have to relock your bootloader, this can be done in fastboot. I think you can run any RUU no matter what CID you have, but also you have to have phone running, or else flash it in stock recovery somehow...

re recovery
frdd said:
Hmm tricky one this...
Just so we're talking about the same things, this is what the bootloader looks like:http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bootloader-unlock-htc-one.jpg
I have no idea how the HTC recovery looks, flashed CWM in a heartbeat on my VilleU...
You have read the "The Ville C (HTC One S with S3 chips) and development" thread I guess? Some guys there apparantly flashed S4 recovery and got boot issues that were fixed. check on page 5 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1719911&highlight=ruu+help&page=5
Have you unlocked the bootloader via htcdev.com? I guess so since you flashed that S4 recovery... I dont think you need more than fastboot access to do it anyways IIRC. http://htcdev.com/bootloader/preview_unlock_process
If you have, you could try paulobriens boot.img that roots your S3 device, which is neat and all but more importantly it might perhaps hopefully maybe god willing if Cthulu allows it let your phone boot once and that time it'll have insecure adb access...
http://www.modaco.com/topic/355509-testing-villec-superboot/
Also I havent run an RUU myself for a long time so dont remember if you have to be on stock recovery but I think you have to relock your bootloader, this can be done in fastboot. I think you can run any RUU no matter what CID you have, but also you have to have phone running, or else flash it in stock recovery somehow...
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I have uploaded a pic of the boot loader,i have root access via pauls super boot,boot loader is unlocked and i know how to re lock if i have to ,cheers.

trevor3737 said:
When i go into recovery,i get the white screen with the Htc logo,Quietly brilliant logo and red writing about being used by developers
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Are you sure this is when you go into recovery? Thats how it looks when trying to boot, and where the phone gets stuck when your boot.img is f-d up or you flash a new ROM and forgot/failed to flash boot.img or TWRP randomly fails to do this for you... try
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fastboot boot boot.img
(replace boot.img with actual filename), you must be in the directory on PC where you have downloaded a boot.img for the VilleC2, or use the one I linked before from paulobrien, just extract the boot.superboot.img from the superboot.zip. This is of course the same thing as just running install-superboot-windows.bat now that I think about it, duh time for coffee here it seems. Good luck!
(you could also just send it in for service to HTC, and not take unnecessary risks with your expensive new hardware... root what? Whats a recovery? Fix my iphone damnit I just bought it and its already broken??)
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Yup thats a bootloader Maybe try pauls again, did it boot normally last time you ran it?

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frdd said:
Are you sure this is when you go into recovery? Thats how it looks when trying to boot, and where the phone gets stuck when your boot.img is f-d up or you flash a new ROM and forgot/failed to flash boot.img or TWRP randomly fails to do this for you... try
Code:
fastboot boot boot.img
(replace boot.img with actual filename), you must be in the directory on PC where you have downloaded a boot.img for the VilleC2, or use the one I linked before from paulobrien, just extract the boot.superboot.img from the superboot.zip. This is of course the same thing as just running install-superboot-windows.bat now that I think about it, duh time for coffee here it seems. Good luck!
(you could also just send it in for service to HTC, and not take unnecessary risks with your expensive new hardware... root what? Whats a recovery? Fix my iphone damnit I just bought it and its already broken??)
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Yup thats a bootloader Maybe try pauls again, did it boot normally last time you ran it?
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thats what happens when i hit recovery from the bootloader screen.

that is because you flashed wrong recovery. Here in this rar file it is original stock recovery for your phone (ignore othere files). Flash recovery_signed.img one just like you did twrp! And the attached build.prop from my HTC One S (S3), if it is any help. Juste remove the .txt ant the endo of build.prop. I had to add it to make it "valid" upload file.

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qzem said:
that is because you flashed wrong recovery. Here in this rar file it is original stock recovery for your phone (ignore othere files). Flash recovery_signed.img one just like you did twrp! And the attached build.prop from my HTC One S (S3), if it is any help. Juste remove the .txt ant the endo of build.prop. I had to add it to make it "valid" upload file.
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it says remote not allowed

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trevor3737 said:
it says remote not allowed
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C:\Android>fastboot boot recovery_signed.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 6103040 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.188s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.188s

Try fastboot flash recovery recovery-signed.img instead if you want to flash new recovery, fastboot boot will just boot from the image assuming its a boot.img with a ramdisk and kernel inside it

re flash recovery
frdd said:
Try fastboot flash recovery recovery-signed.img instead if you want to flash new recovery, fastboot boot will just boot from the image assuming its a boot.img with a ramdisk and kernel inside it
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C:\Android>fastboot boot recovery_signed.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 6103040 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.172s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: reproduce boot image with on-flash ramdisk error)
finished. total time: 1.188s
C:\Android>fastboot flash recovery recovery-signed.img
error: cannot load 'recovery-signed.img'
the fastboot boot recovery_signed.img way and the fastboot flash recovery recovery-signed.img way

Rooting- error: cannot load "flashboot flash recovery r1-modaco-reco... .img"

Rooting- error: cannot load "flashboot flash recovery r1-modaco-reco... .img"
I'm rooting my HTC One S the first time. And I was stupid and thought that HTC One X Clockworkmod flash would work.
Now I know how flashing and clockworkmod installing works but before that I accidentally flashed the One X command: "fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.7-endeavoru.img" and now when I go to recovery it gives me a red text and nothing works.
I searched everywhere for a guide to remove it and did not found. So I thought I could flash it over with an One S flash, but then when I entered the command: "fastboot flash recovery r1-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img" It gave me this: "error: cannot load 'recovery r1-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img'. My phone is connected perfectly, when I type 'fastboot devices' it shows me my phone is there.
So I think this is not a big problem for developers. Can anyone tell me what to flash or do to get rid of the One X recovery? Otherwise I just have to live with a phone with unlocked Bootloader and no access to root

Do you have the IMG I the directory from which you are running fast boot?

edscholl said:
Do you have the IMG I the directory from which you are running fast boot?
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Ofcourse

rixrasta said:
Ofcourse
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mabey I should just do a factory reset :/

Why don't you dl goo manager from market, open it and open menu and tap on Install OpenScriptRecovery and let it install twrp--although, I guess if you aren't rooted yet that won't work
Did you try fastbooting the cwmr from here--
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Did you check the md5 on the modaco recovery before flashing
At the red text did you try hitting vol+ or vol- not sure which one takes you to stock recovery. What does red text say--
Did you hard reboot with holding down vol- and power at same time then release pwr after screen goes off and continue to hold vol-
Not sure what is wrong, just giving some ideas--

rugmankc said:
Why don't you dl goo manager from market, open it and open menu and tap on Install OpenScriptRecovery and let it install twrp--although, I guess if you aren't rooted yet that won't work
Did you try fastbooting the cwmr from here--
Did you check the md5 on the modaco recovery before flashing
At the red text did you try hitting vol+ or vol- not sure which one takes you to stock recovery. What does red text say--
Did you hard reboot with holding down vol- and power at same time then release pwr after screen goes off and continue to hold vol-
Not sure what is wrong, just giving some ideas--
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Tyvm for your reply,
the cwmr for HTC One S does not exist any more on the page you gave me. There's only a blank page if you click on it
yes I did hard reboot and the red text says: This build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside HTC without HTC's written permission. Failure to comply my lead to legal action.
I tried the superboot from this site: htt p://w ww.m odaco.co m/to pic/352493-how-to-root-your-htc-one-s-for-windows-mac-and-linux/
This just brought up the recovery message again...
Then I tried flashing these files:h ttp://ww w.m odaco.c om/topic/353006-interim-clockworkmod-touch-recovery-for-the-htc-one-s-stock-download/
no help.
Any other ideas I should try?
However the flashing went through this time and there were no error, but the recovery is still f**ked.

rixrasta said:
Tyvm for your reply,
the cwmr for HTC One S does not exist any more on the page you gave me. There's only a blank page if you click on it
yes I did hard reboot and the red text says: This build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside HTC without HTC's written permission. Failure to comply my lead to legal action.
I tried the superboot from this site: htt p://w ww.m odaco.co m/to pic/352493-how-to-root-your-htc-one-s-for-windows-mac-and-linux/
This just brought up the recovery message again...
Then I tried flashing these files:h ttp://ww w.m odaco.c om/topic/353006-interim-clockworkmod-touch-recovery-for-the-htc-one-s-stock-download/
no help.
Any other ideas I should try?
However the flashing went through this time and there were no error, but the recovery is still f**ked.
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Try this twrp .img
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/100
The red text will stay till you relock, I believe, or flash stock recovery--

twrp recovery is the way to go. Me too I couldn't install the clockwork one!

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Try this twrp .img
h ttp://team w. in/projec t/twrp 2/100
The red text will stay till you relock, I believe, or flash stock recovery--
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I flashed the "openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img". Didnnt change anything :/

sorry to hear that, not sure what else to do, so you still have onex recovery?
even if you run an ruu, i think you still have to flash the stock recovery first. haven't read up on that much, as never needed to run one
Don't know if trying to flash the stock recovery will help. I have the original one at home, but not sure if that is what they still call stock recovery with new ota's having come out

If it cannot load it, you probably spelt the name wrong. rename the image file to recovery.img (make sure it isn't .img.img) and flash that. Make sure the file path is correct! (e.g fastboot flash recovery C:\Users\Me\Desktop\recovery.img)

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If it cannot load it, you probably spelt the name wrong. rename the image file to recovery.img (make sure it isn't .img.img) and flash that. Make sure the file path is correct! (e.g fastboot flash recovery C:\Users\Me\Desktop\recovery.img)
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no no, the flashing finished successfully. I entered "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img" and then it flashed without problems, but in the phone it didn't change a thing. If I enter recovery then there's the android icon with a white background and under it is the red text.
But keep guessing, maybe I really am doing something stupid wrong
When I go to Fastboot USB mode with my phone then I open the command prompt and firstly type "cd c:\CWM" (the folder where my flashing files are). Then secondly I type "fastboot devices" (just to be shure). And thirdly depending on what I am flashing I type "fastboot flash recovery name.img". I have tried "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img", "fastboot flash recovery r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville" and "fastboot flash recovery ville_recovery_signed". Every one of them finishes successfully but doesn't change anything in the phone. I already have recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.4-ville.zip and CWM-SuperSU-v0.96.zip in my phones directory to install root when I get into the recovery. In the C:\CWM folder in my computer are these files:
adb.exe
AdbWinApi.dll
AdbWinUsbApi.dll
fastboot.exe
(these where exctracted from fastboot.zip)
openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img
r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img
ville_recovery_signed.img

the text won't disappear with unlocked bootloader, so that's ok.
Try to boot into bootloader hit fastboot reboot bootloader and then choose recovery. It can take a while to boot into recovery.
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the text won't disappear with unlocked bootloader, so that's ok.
Try to boot into bootloader hit fastboot reboot bootloader and then choose recovery. It can take a while to boot into recovery.
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fastboot ->reboot bootloader ->bootloader ->recovery. Absolutely no change, It took half a second to bring up the "HTC quietly brilliant" logo and about two seconds for the red text to appear under it. No buttons work after that and I just have to hold the power button down to shut it down.
And by bootloader is unlocked!

As stunner said above it can take a while to boot into recovery, how long have you waited?
Give it a few minutes... Also you could try flashing stock recovery, it is distributed in the all-in-one tool and also in paulobriens posts about superboot. Then run a RUU.
But my best to would be to try fastboot booting a custom recovery, "fastboot boot cwm.img".

If this is the thing where you go int recovery for a millisecond and then back to the 'red text' screen (you have to watch carefully to notice), you should try erasing your cache in fastboot mode.
fastboot erase cache
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-Jobo

It's gotten a little confusing and some suggestions are being repeated. I wonder if the android icon you are describing is the stock recovery symbol. At that screen have you tried to press vol+ or maybe volume-. I forget which one takes you to stock recovery. May want to check on that.
Also, have you tried typing "fastboot boot recovery" to go straight to recovery, bypassing htc restrictions
Here is very early stock recovery--not sure if it is still considered "stock" with new versions out now--I did mention that earlier--
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yhrq0tia8512rj9/go28kc1NeP/ville_recovery_signed.img
I did have issues fastbooting recovery before. You can as mentioned try fastboot erase cache before fastbooting recovery. And change the name of your recovery to just recovery.img before you fastboot.
I assume you have nandroid backup on phone and copies of it and sdcard backup on pc.
I think when I had issues with recovery sticking it was my N1 and I typed "fastboot erase system" first, then fastbooted recovery. Then wiped all and restored nandroid. I am not sure we can do that on the 1s with no s-off. Someone else may know.
Can you access sdcard where you could reformat it fat32 thru a windows formatter program. Of course copy all to pc first. Sometimes sdcard formats help things you wouldn't expect it to.
Some folks have reported formatting works better thru phone on the 1s, maybe because it is an internal card. I did it once and think I had to redo it thru phone. But, if it gets recovery working, no big deal.
All these are suggestions and as the devs say--at your own risk--
I thought you said you said in first post, phone works, just no root capabilty. If that is true it should be fixable--I hope.
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rixrasta said:
no no, the flashing finished successfully. I entered "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img" and then it flashed without problems, but in the phone it didn't change a thing. If I enter recovery then there's the android icon with a white background and under it is the red text.
But keep guessing, maybe I really am doing something stupid wrong
When I go to Fastboot USB mode with my phone then I open the command prompt and firstly type "cd c:\CWM" (the folder where my flashing files are). Then secondly I type "fastboot devices" (just to be shure). And thirdly depending on what I am flashing I type "fastboot flash recovery name.img". I have tried "fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img", "fastboot flash recovery r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville" and "fastboot flash recovery ville_recovery_signed". Every one of them finishes successfully but doesn't change anything in the phone. I already have recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.2.4-ville.zip and CWM-SuperSU-v0.96.zip in my phones directory to install root when I get into the recovery. In the C:\CWM folder in my computer are these files:
adb.exe
AdbWinApi.dll
AdbWinUsbApi.dll
fastboot.exe
(these where exctracted from fastboot.zip)
openrecovery-twrp-2.2.2.0-ville.img
r2-modaco-recovery-clockwork-touch-ville.img
ville_recovery_signed.img
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you should also have adb.exe if you are using adb--

frdd said:
As stunner said above it can take a while to boot into recovery, how long have you waited?
Give it a few minutes... Also you could try flashing stock recovery, it is distributed in the all-in-one tool and also in paulobriens posts about superboot. Then run a RUU.
But my best to would be to try fastboot booting a custom recovery, "fastboot boot cwm.img".
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Okay I waited for 10 minutes, nothing happens. I've even tried to hold down all the button combinations(with the three buttons) for a few minutes.
I've tried flashing everything and fastboot boot just takes me directly to the recovery with the red text. I flashed both the recoveries in the all-in-one tool.
As I know absolutely nothing about RUU(only what the letters stand for) then I'd rather not do that because I read from some threads that RUU has quite a high chance to mess up your phone. Or if you direct me to a tutorial that u insure me that is 100% good then I could give it a go : D

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I think I have made ​​the same mistake of flash recovery, but I can not get into cwm recovery, I only appear for 1 second the recovery, then restarts and returns to the operating system. SD card, all changes are discarded when you restart the phone, which is also only if I try to install or remove some utility. Can not install any recovery, even if fastboot works well and looks real mind install the recovery but when I reboot, it returns to its previous behavior, with recovery not working. I tried to install the recovery in every way, from fastboot, from All in one with quickroot, but none of these operations has changed the state of the system.
Unfortunately you can not install a Stock RUU because the bootloader unlocked and the recovery is not the stock, and especially not when there is no tutorial to follow to bring this situation to the ONE S, to its original state
Hopefully someone will be able to find a solution to your and my problem.

One option you guys may need to entertain, if applicable, would be to exchange phones with Carrier. Worth a shot--
I have not heard of this exact issue, but most comments say if you can't boot to recovery you are bricked--
Has anyone tried "fastboot boot recovery" command in terminal window?

{HELP} - This build is for development purposes only - loop

Dear All
I need some help
Got a new HTC One XL today (UK, Everything Everywhere)
Unlocked the bootloader using HTC Dev
Tried to flash recovery (recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.0-endeavoru.img)
Now I get the "This build is for development purposes only ...."
I can sometimes get to the bootloader but the PC does not recognise the phone when it goes into bootloader
When i choose recovery it boots back to the splash screen with "This build is for development purposes only ...." again
I am lost for things to do now and desperately some help
Let me know - thanks
Caolfin

Don't use CWM on this phone, it has issues.

joshuadjohnson22 said:
Don't use CWM on this phone, it has issues.
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Ok, I've also tried to flash the twrp .img file using the command
fastboot flash recovery ****.img
this did nothing as well
when I choose the recovery option from the bootloader menu it goes immediately to the white htc screen with the "this build is for ...." stuff
Any ideas ?

Is the phone an evita or endevour? (quad core or dual core). If it is an evita, you may have a little bigger problem due to that endeavor cwm flash.

bimmernut318 said:
Is the phone an evita or endevour? (quad core or dual core). If it is an evita, you may have a little bigger problem due to that endeavor cwm flash.
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Oh no
Its an EVITA
mainver : 2.34.61.2
I've also tried to flash twrp but every time I go to recovery from bootloader I get the white screen with the "development purposes" stuff
What do you think ?

caolfin said:
Oh no
Its an EVITA
mainver : 2.34.61.2
I've also tried to flash twrp but every time I go to recovery from bootloader I get the white screen with the "development purposes" stuff
What do you think ?
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That development purposes only is normal if you unlock using the super-cid...there is nothing you can do about that...mine has it as well.

mikelebz said:
That development purposes only is normal if you unlock using the super-cid...there is nothing you can do about that...mine has it as well.
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Hi Mike
I've no problem with the writing on it if I could get it to recovery or to load ICS past this screen I would be very happy
Any ideas as to how I would get past this ? it seems to be in some sort of bootloop or bootcrash

You flashed the cwm recovery for the endeavor quad-core...........
Download this twrp recovery,
http://db.tt/sXmdepmX
Stick it in your adb/fastboot folder
Boot phone into your bootloader, make sure it says fastboot USB
From cmd prompt type
fastboot devices
Make sure it device serial# shows up
Now type-
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Should get-
Sending
Writing
Ok
Now resend the same command by pressing up arrow, then enter.
Should get the same readout
Now on the phone, navigate to the recovery option and select it.....you should have twrp now.........and don't flash endeavor device ANYTHINGS anymore:beer:
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2

yes, i think that is what i have done
now i cant get past the white htc [email protected] screen with the warning message

Edit:nm

18th.abn said:
You flashed the cwm recovery for the endeavor quad-core...........
Download this twrp recovery,
http://db.tt/sXmdepmX
Stick it in your adb/fastboot folder
Boot phone into your bootloader, make sure it says fastboot USB
From cmd prompt type
fastboot devices
Make sure it device serial# shows up
Now type-
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Should get-
Sending
Writing
Ok
Now resend the same command by pressing up arrow, then enter.
Should get the same readout
Now on the phone, navigate to the recovery option and select it.....you should have twrp now.........and don't flash endeavor device ANYTHINGS anymore:beer:
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2
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Thank you so much for that - I now have TWRP working and its great
I still have a problem that the phone will not boot past the HTC screen that has the "this build is for development purposes..."
It reboots and reboots but never goes past this screen
Do I need a ROM as well ?

caolfin said:
Thank you so much for that - I now have TWRP working and its great
I still have a problem that the phone will not boot past the HTC screen that has the "this build is for development purposes..."
It reboots and reboots but never goes past this screen
Do I need a ROM as well ?
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Yes.. You need a rom.
Dl it on your pc, boot into twrp and mount the sd to transfer it.

qwertyaas
Very much appreciate your responses
ok, I have moved the cm10 evita jellybean ROM over and flashed it - all seemed to go successfully
Used TWRP to factory reset beforehand
Used TWRP to turn the phone off
Pressed the phone button to turn the phone on
Phones boots immediately to white HTC splash screen with the "this build is for development purposes..." and reboots after about 10 seconds, and reboots and reboots
Never gets past this point
Any ideas ?

Your probably on hboot 1.14, so....the cm10 Rom.zip, on your pc, unzip it and you will see a boot.img, put the boot.img in your adb fastboot folder, boot phone into bootloader....cmd prompt type
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Do it a second time for good measure, then type
fastboot reboot
Should be good
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2

18th.abn said:
Your probably on hboot 1.14, so....the cm10 Rom.zip, on your pc, unzip it and you will see a boot.img, put the boot.img in your adb fastboot folder, boot phone into bootloader....cmd prompt type
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Do it a second time for good measure, then type
fastboot reboot
Should be good
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!!
I dont know what to say !! - Its working - you are an absolute genius - thank you sooooo much for your help
Great stuff - you are a legend
Super stuff :laugh::laugh::laugh:

18th.abn, god of the noobs :cyclops:

finally i made it too. thank you so much!!!

Hey i know this is super mega delayed. but i need that twrp recovery. the link above is no doubt broken now. thanks

[Q] Problem rooting One SV (Boost)

I have followed the instructions on the root guide for this phone. I got the bootloader unlocked. When I got to this part:
3: reboot your phone into hboot and then into fastboot if you are not already there
4:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
this is presuming the recovery.img is in the same directory as fastboot, you can either move it or point the code to it directly
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I start having problems. I can boot into hboot. Then I can choose fastboot. From there, there is no option for "flash recovery" but there is one for just "recovery." I choose that and my phone just reboots back to normal. Plus, on my last phone, when I erwad through the root guide, it went through making the recovery image, but this guide did not do that. I am a beginner (obviously), so what am I missing? I can't do the nandroid backup until it's rooted, and I don't have a backup image. Plus that thing with my phone rebooting back into normal usage after selecting " recovery" from the menu, what do I do about that?

chisao101 said:
I have followed the instructions on the root guide for this phone. I got the bootloader unlocked. When I got to this part:
I start having problems. I can boot into hboot. Then I can choose fastboot. From there, there is no option for "flash recovery" but there is one for just "recovery." I choose that and my phone just reboots back to normal. Plus, on my last phone, when I erwad through the root guide, it went through making the recovery image, but this guide did not do that. I am a beginner (obviously), so what am I missing? I can't do the nandroid backup until it's rooted, and I don't have a backup image. Plus that thing with my phone rebooting back into normal usage after selecting " recovery" from the menu, what do I do about that?
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Read there, begin with #791. Same problem with rooting like you.

old.splatterhand said:
Read there, begin with #791. Same problem with rooting like you.
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Thanks. So if I want to flash a new ROM, do I do it the same way? Do I need to open the CMD prompt and type in those same commands, but point it to the ROM I want?

chisao101 said:
Thanks. So if I want to flash a new ROM, do I do it the same way? Do I need to open the CMD prompt and type in those same commands, but point it to the ROM I want?
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You need the CMD prompt to flash a recovery and from recovery you can flash Superuser to become root or flash roms (from recovery).

old.splatterhand said:
Read there, begin with #791. Same problem with rooting like you.
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old.splatterhand said:
You need the CMD prompt to flash a recovery and from recovery you can flash Superuser to become root or flash roms (from recovery).
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Ok, this is what's happening now. I hold the volume down key and power key. It boots into hboot (i think that's what it's called). I scroll down to recovery and hit the power key. It immediately goes to the logo screen with a message that says "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC ithout HTC's written permission. Failure to comply may lead to legal action."
It just stays there until I remove the battery and start over.
Am I missing a step?

chisao101 said:
Ok, this is what's happening now. I hold the volume down key and power key. It boots into hboot (i think that's what it's called). I scroll down to recovery and hit the power key. It immediately goes to the logo screen with a message that says "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC ithout HTC's written permission. Failure to comply may lead to legal action."
It just stays there until I remove the battery and start over.
Am I missing a step?
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What have you done? Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img?
The recovery you need, is in fastboot folder on pc, renamed to recovery.img?

chisao101 said:
Ok, this is what's happening now. I hold the volume down key and power key. It boots into hboot (i think that's what it's called). I scroll down to recovery and hit the power key. It immediately goes to the logo screen with a message that says "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC ithout HTC's written permission. Failure to comply may lead to legal action."
It just stays there until I remove the battery and start over.
Am I missing a step?
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Am I supposed to type into the cmd prompt again: "flashboot flash recovery superuser.zip"?

old.splatterhand said:
What have you done? Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img?
The recovery you need, is in fastboot folder on pc, renamed to recovery.img?
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Yes, this is exactly what I did.

chisao101 said:
"flashboot flash recovery superuser.zip"?
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Don't type this!!!
This can brick your device!
Now, what cmd did you use, look at the prompt.
The recovery seems not to be flashed correctly, thats why it is not booting to recovery!
And look, how it is written: fastboot not flashboot
Copy and paste, otherwise you can damage your phone!

old.splatterhand said:
Don't type this!!!
This can brick your device!
Now, what cmd did you use, look at the prompt.
The recovery seems not to be flashed correctly, thats why it is not booting to recovery!
And look, how it is written: fastboot not flashboot
Copy and paste, otherwise you can damage your phone!
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Ok, I made a folder on my PC:
C:\Android
Inside that folder I have these files:
adb.exe
AdbWinApi.dll
CMD starten
fastboot.exe
Superuser.zip
trecovery.img
I moved these files to my SD card:
trecovery.img (renamed to recovery.img)
Superuser.zip
I started my phone holding the volume down, and it booted to the hboot screen with a menu that has these items:
fastboot
recovery
factory reset
clear storage
simlock
image crc
show barcode
I selected "fastboot" from the menu, and it went to a new menu with these menu items:
bootloader
reboot
reboot bootloader
power down
I plugged the phone into the USB.
I clicked the CMD starten
I typed this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
I hit enter and got this message in the CMD prompt:
sending 'recovery' (7456 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.042s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 1.988s]
finished. total time: 3.031s
C:\Android>
When I go back to the previous menu and select "recovery" it just boots and hangs on the HTC One screen. If I take the battery out and reboot normal, it works fine with my stock Android install, like nothing happened.

chisao101 said:
I moved these files to my SD card:
trecovery.img (renamed to recovery.img)
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The recovery.img must be in same folder as fastboot.exe, on pc, not in sdcard!
But i don't what you have flashed then...

old.splatterhand said:
The recovery.img must be in same folder as fastboot.exe, on pc, not in sdcard!
But i don't what you have flashed then...
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I just went through the whole process again and it is working now! I must have missed something the first time.
So after it booted into recovery, I saw where it says "install zip from SD card"
I looked up the superuser.zip and installed it. It seemed to go ok, and it is rebooting now.
So this just means that the phone is now rooted, correct?

chisao101 said:
I just went through the whole process again and it is working now! I must have missed something the first time.
So after it booted into recovery, I saw where it says "install zip from SD card"
I looked up the superuser.zip and installed it. It seemed to go ok, and it is rebooting now.
So this just means that the phone is now rooted, correct?
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You can check, if you have a Superuser app in appdrawer.
But i see, you are on boost, which recovery did you flash?
Give me the link to the thread, please! Cause boost need its own recovery!

old.splatterhand said:
You can check, if you have a Superuser app in appdrawer.
But i see, you are on boost, which recovery did you flash?
Give me the link to the thread, please! Cause boost need its own recovery!
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ClockworkMod Recovery for ICS, which is linked to : https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgcdztlzmi2bd35/trecovery.img
I got it from that guide that you sent me to earlier in this thread. That's the same guide I was already using before I started the thread too.
Where can I find the correct recovery for Boost?

chisao101 said:
ClockworkMod Recovery for ICS, which is linked to : https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgcdztlzmi2bd35/trecovery.img
I got it from that guide that you sent me to earlier in this thread. That's the same guide I was already using before I started the thread too.
Where can I find the correct recovery for Boost?
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It did not install the superuser correctly because it's not in my app drawer.
I also noticed that the recovery menu is kinda shifted to the side a little bit, so it's hard to read until I start scrolling. Yeah, this has to be the wrong recovery.

You can use this or the boost variant from here.

old.splatterhand said:
You can use this or the boost variant from here.
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That first link doesn't work. It goes to the right thread, but when you go to download the file, it is not found.
I got the other one, and I'm about to flash it.
Any suggestions for a stable version of JB for this phone?
P.S. Thanks for all your help. You have been awesome!

chisao101 said:
That first link doesn't work. It goes to the right thread, but when you go to download the file, it is not found.
I got the other one, and I'm about to flash it.
Any suggestions for a stable version of JB for this phone?
P.S. Thanks for all your help. You have been awesome!
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There is only one jb for boost i know and you have to be S-off for it.

old.splatterhand said:
There is only one jb for boost i know and you have to be S-off for it.
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Will the unrevoked3 tool work for this phone to get S-off? I just read about it, and this looks like it's for the EVO and a couple of other phones, but it's not clear on whether I can use it on the One SV.

chisao101 said:
Will the unrevoked3 tool work for this phone to get S-off? I just read about it, and this looks like it's for the EVO and a couple of other phones, but it's not clear on whether I can use it on the One SV.
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No, don't do this!!!
Moonshine S-off. But there i could not assist, i used another method which is not available for boost.
Edit:
Wooooot, Post Number 1000!

[Q] bad flash

Hi i have rooted and flashed the phone it got stuck on the htc screen so i tried factory reset bad idea now my phone will just go into the bootlader menu i can enable fastboot usb but it dont show up on computer but the computer makes a noise to say ive connected it i cant enable usb debugging because the phone wont come on i have tried to flash another boot img through fastboot with no luck im hoping its not bricked
please any help would be appreciated thanks

pl4yb0y78 said:
Hi i have rooted and flashed the phone it got stuck on the htc screen so i tried factory reset bad idea now my phone will just go into the bootlader menu i can enable fastboot usb but it dont show up on computer but the computer makes a noise to say ive connected it i cant enable usb debugging because the phone wont come on i have tried to flash another boot img through fastboot with no luck im hoping its not bricked
please any help would be appreciated thanks
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Hmm. so you probably need to flash a recovery first.
then you will be able to use the recovery to mount usb and put a new rom on your "sd card"
Then you can flash the rom on your new recovery and don't forget to fastboot flash the boot.img.
edit: the all in one toolkit is great for things like this. It will put a new recovery on your phone with just a click of the button.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604677

tivofool said:
Hmm. so you probably need to flash a recovery first.
then you will be able to use the recovery to mount usb and put a new rom on your "sd card"
Then you can flash the rom on your new recovery and don't forget to fastboot flash the boot.img.
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Thanks for the reply but i dont know how to do this ?
could you please explain it ?

pl4yb0y78 said:
Thanks for the reply but i dont know how to do this ?
could you please explain it ?
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I just edited my original post. just in case you didn't know how. I guess I was a little slow.
Also I can't remember if a bootloader factory reset relocked your phone but you might want to check that too. up on top it would say locked or relocked. If it still says unlocked you don't have to do that step again. Like you did when you first rooted the phone.
(all in one tool kit is great for unlocking and relocking too) just put a copy of that bin file in all in one tool kit (data file i believe, but it says what to do in that thread)

tivofool said:
I just edited my original post. just in case you didn't know how. I guess I was a little slow.
Also I can't remember if a bootloader factory reset relocked your phone but you might want to check that too. up on top it would say locked or relocked. If it still says unlocked you don't have to do that step again. Like you did when you first rooted the phone.
(all in one tool kit is great for unlocking and relocking too) just put a copy of that bin file in all in one tool kit (data file i believe, but it says what to do in that thread)
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hi i have got the tool kit run twrp s3 now i have a black htc logo screen on what next

pl4yb0y78 said:
hi i have got the tool kit run twrp s3 now i have a black htc logo screen on what next
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Your phone is an s3?
My phone is an S4 as are I would guess the majority of users. I think the s3 is the international version. If you are on T mobile then it's a s4.
Ok,,,
so .... if your phone is an s3 version then you will have to check that the Rom you download is specific for your phone as most of the Roms on this site are for the s4 version.
you need to go to your recovery. press the volume down button and hold it. Then press the power button (don't hold it). That will get you to recovery.
when in twrp recovery you will see a mounts button. hit that then the next screen will have mount usb. then you will be able to move a rom you downloaded on your computer to your phone.
then you can install the rom zip in twrp.
then from your computer, I assume you know how to flash a boot.img
put a boot.img in your fastboot folder, open up a comand prompt.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
if you wanted a different recovery than you are using, find the download the recovery. *I would rename the recovery to recovery.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(I only mention a different recovery because in some of the Rom threads you might read that you can only install a particular rom with an older version of twrp.)
I'm not sure of your skill or experience with all of this. If you are very new to it (then you are probably really frustrated) have no fear there is a little bit to learn but not that much. Just keep reading the development thread and the guides in it.

tivofool said:
Your phone is an s3?
My phone is an S4 as are I would guess the majority of users. I think the s3 is the international version. If you are on T mobile then it's a s4.
Ok,,,
so .... if your phone is an s3 version then you will have to check that the Rom you download is specific for your phone as most of the Roms on this site are for the s4 version.
you need to go to your recovery. press the volume down button and hold it. Then press the power button (don't hold it). That will get you to recovery.
when in twrp recovery you will see a mounts button. hit that then the next screen will have mount usb. then you will be able to move a rom you downloaded on your computer to your phone.
then you can install the rom zip in twrp.
then from your computer, I assume you know how to flash a boot.img
put a boot.img in your fastboot folder, open up a comand prompt.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
if you wanted a different recovery than you are using, find the download the recovery. *I would rename the recovery to recovery.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(I only mention a different recovery because in some of the Rom threads you might read that you can only install a particular rom with an older version of twrp.)
I'm not sure of your skill or experience with all of this. If you are very new to it (then you are probably really frustrated) have no fear there is a little bit to learn but not that much. Just keep reading the development thread and the guides in it.
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Thank you for the reply yes i am getting stressed at this and i am new had a break before i smashed the phone now ive just got to find out what my phone is s3 or s4 ? google will help

when i connect my phone to the computer in recovery or flashboot it does not let me see it so i can not put rom on the hdd
(tried restart phone no luck tried restart comy no luck, cant get it to show phone ) all drivers installed
can i use the tool kit to flash recovery ?
phone on orange uk ,is it a s4 ?
thanks for the help guys with your knowledge i will get it working i pray!

pl4yb0y78 said:
when i connect my phone to the computer in recovery or flashboot it does not let me see it so i can not put rom on the hdd
(tried restart phone no luck tried restart comy no luck, cant get it to show phone ) all drivers installed
can i use the tool kit to flash recovery ?
phone on orange uk ,is it a s4 ?
thanks for the help guys with your knowledge i will get it working i pray!
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do you have your box the phone came in?
Z520e is S4
Z560e is S3
So were you able to put twrp on your phone? when you are in boot loader and click on the recovery does it take you to twrp? Yes the all in one toolkit will flash a recovery for you. but you have your boot loader unlocked first.

tivofool said:
do you have your box the phone came in?
Z520e is S4
Z560e is S3
So were you able to put twrp on your phone? when you are in boot loader and click on the recovery does it take you to twrp? Yes the all in one toolkit will flash a recovery for you. but you have your boot loader unlocked first.
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yes i now have the twrp in recovery it says enter password and cancel i tried both it was the s4 one that worked so im guessing its an s4
what will the next step be? (if i need anything please could you leave a link)
thanks for all the help starting to feel i might win lol

in twrp when you press "mounts" then press "mount usb", does your computer finally see your phone?
I was looking at your first post, you say that you rooted and flashed your phone. What do you mean by that? Did you download a ROM and attempt to flash it? Or did you "fastboot flash boot boot.img"?
If you are able to access your phone via computer it is as simple as downloading a rom on your computer moving it to your phone then in twrp "install from zip". Then fastboot flash the boot.img.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583427
how to flash fastboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752270
if you are just fed up and want your phone back to stock then you will need to run an RUU.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094414
To run a RUU you would need to relock your bootloader.
in console type "fastboot lock oem" or use your all in one toolkit to relock it.
if that fails you will need to put your stock recovery back. (you need to have boot loader unlocked to do this)
on the clockworkmod recovery page the stock recovery is the second download link.
http://www.modaco.com/topic/353006-...ch-recovery-for-the-htc-one-s-stock-download/

Ok i am now really confused nothing works downloaded recovery roms they wont install always says failed tried to adb sideload it after google it failed again tried 3 recovery roms all fail what is going wrong icant get it to work
so far ive put twrp on it pressed mount so i can put rom on phone worked
pressed install pressed zip failed
pressed adb sideload then start on comy sent rom 100% install failed
reeboot phone still no os
tried this 3 times different roms all failed
please help

pl4yb0y78 said:
Ok i am now really confused nothing works downloaded recovery roms they wont install always says failed tried to adb sideload it after google it failed again tried 3 recovery roms all fail what is going wrong icant get it to work
so far ive put twrp on it pressed mount so i can put rom on phone worked
pressed install pressed zip failed
pressed adb sideload then start on comy sent rom 100% install failed
reeboot phone still no os
tried this 3 times different roms all failed
please help
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Do you know how to FASTBOOT FLASH boot.img which is present inside the ROM.ZIP?
Try wiping data, cache, dalvik. Then reinstall.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

khan.orak said:
Do you know how to FASTBOOT FLASH boot.img which is present inside the ROM.ZIP?
Try wiping data, cache, dalvik. Then reinstall.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
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thanks and yes i can do that i will try and get back to you

C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130522\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot boot boot.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 16779264 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.890s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: reproduce boot image with on-flash ramdisk error)
finished. total time: 1.926s
this is what i get when i try tried 3 imgs

pl4yb0y78 said:
C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130522\sdk\platform-tools>fastboot boot boot.img
creating boot image...
creating boot image - 16779264 bytes
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 1.890s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: reproduce boot image with on-flash ramdisk error)
finished. total time: 1.926s
this is what i get when i try tried 3 imgs
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The command is:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img

khan.orak said:
The command is:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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ok i try this i am only learning but getting there lol