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[Q] Is phone bricked?

Booted into recovery today to install the latest Energy ROM on my Sensation and during the process an error message popped up and it said installation failed, then I rebooted the phone and it's just stuck on the HTC screen. If I pull the battery I can boot into recovery, but I'm not sure what I should try from there, I don't want to make things worse.
Info on screen when I power on and vol down is as follows in case it's important.
-Revolutionary-
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.17.1011
RADIO-10.14.9035.01_M
eMMC-boot
Jun 2 2011,22:31:39

If you can boot into recovery, you should be able to flash a new ROM.
I'm assuming you didn't take a Nandroid backup before flashing?

dirkgently68 said:
Booted into recovery today to install the latest Energy ROM on my Sensation and during the process an error message popped up and it said installation failed, then I rebooted the phone and it's just stuck on the HTC screen. If I pull the battery I can boot into recovery, but I'm not sure what I should try from there, I don't want to make things worse.
Info on screen when I power on and vol down is as follows in case it's important.
-Revolutionary-
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.17.1011
RADIO-10.14.9035.01_M
eMMC-boot
Jun 2 2011,22:31:39
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if you can still boot into the boot loader ie if it still turns on than no you are not bricked. brick = nothing happens when you hit the power button ie it wont even turn on to the htc screen or boatloader. absolutely nothing happens, dead. as for your problem im not sure if i know what the answer is. hopefully you did a nandroid before you tried to flash a different rom. if so restore the back up and your back and running. if not i dont know what else to tell you other than flashing your stock ruu. keep in mind if you do this you need to run revolutionary again install cwm and root again (enrgy rom is already rooted so skip the rooting and flash that.) before you flash this time make a nandroid backup. hope this helps

Thanks very much for the answers, just re-downloaded Energy ROM and copied it on to the SD card using my card reader and it appears to have installed successfully this time, stupidly I'd remembered to do a Titanium Backup of my apps and system data but forgotten to do a nandroid backup, slaps self on the wrist and won't forget to do that again.
All I can think is that it must have been a corrupt download, mental note to check MD5 checksums from now on

dirkgently68 said:
... but forgotten to do a nandroid backup, slaps self on the wrist and won't forget to do that again.
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Ah well, you live and learn. Glad you're up and running again.
PS Love the name too

[Q] Is my phone bricked by flashing Shipped ROM

#CASE SOLVED#
Hi,
I was using CWM7 and then i tried to flash my phone with shipped custom ROM that was listed on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506&page=37
I chose this version "RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed"
I followed all the procedure and all the process was going right. However, when the phone start to rebooting, it stuck at HTC logo screen for almost half an hour.
I tried the (up) (down) (power) procedure and "adb reboot recovery" but none worked. So i pulled off the battery and try to restart it. However, it stopped again at HTC log screen.
I can still access my recovery, so is there anything that I can still try to do?
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-3882.10.08.04_M
NB: this info might useful; when i went to the recovery and connect the usb it mention "HBOOT USB PLUG"
Any help or hint will be really appreciated...

zul.zulkarnaen said:
Hi,
I was using CWM7 and then i tried to flash my phone with shipped custom ROM that was listed on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506&page=37
I chose this version "RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed"
I followed all the procedure and all the process was going right. However, when the phone start to rebooting, it stuck at HTC logo screen for almost half an hour.
I tried the (up) (down) (power) procedure and "adb reboot recovery" but none worked. So i pulled off the battery and try to restart it. Alas, it stopped again at HTC log screen.
I can still access my recovery, so is there anything that I can still try to do?
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-6.98.1002
RADIO-3882.10.08.04_M
NB: this info might useful; when i went to the recovery and connect the usb it mention "HBOOT USB PLUG"
Any help or hint will be really appreciated...
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With the latest Sense 3.0 RUU, the ROM requires that the corresponding HBOOT 2.00.0002 get flashed too in order to boot properly. Since you have S-OFF via Revolutionary, the Revolutionary HBOOT 6.98.1002 is preventing the RUU from overwriting the it, therefore you have ended up with a ROM / HBOOT mismatch and that is why the ROM hangs at the HTC screen.
IMO you would be better off sticking with custom ROMs that have implemented Sense 3.0/3.5 and keeping S-OFF.
From this point you probably need to reinstall ClockworkMod recovery from FASTBOOT mode and then you can restore you nandroid backup (you did make a backup before you attempted this, right?) to get back to CM 7

I did make a backup. But right now, when I choose recovery I can only goes to the stocked recovery. My CWM recovery is lost after the flashing. And when I navigate through the stocked recovery, I can't find a way to restore my last ROM.

zul.zulkarnaen said:
I did make a backup. But right now, when I choose recovery I can only goes to the stocked recovery. My CWM recovery is lost after the flashing. And when I navigate through the stocked recovery, I can't find a way to restore my last ROM.
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Yes I understand that CWM is no longer there. I said you need to reinstall it using Fastboot.
Look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14693680

Oh, I didnt know that there's manual process, I only knew the one that use the web. OK, I'll try it

SOLVED. Thanks a lot..

zul.zulkarnaen said:
SOLVED. Thanks a lot..
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NP. Glad to help. I noticed you updated your first post with SOLVED. It would also help if you modified the Title of your first post and "SOLVED" to it also. That way when others are browsing the threads, they know that a solution is in the discussion.

[Q] Phone won't boot into recovery. Goes Black!

I have an HTC One X from AT&T. I recently got root and started playing. I flashed Clean Rom 6.5 using clockwordmod and it went well. Used it about a week and got bored. (Later I saw that TWRP was needed for that.) I decided I wanted to try a Cyanogen Mod but realized later after research that my phone received the OTA update that only allows Sense ROMS on my phone. After I flashed Cyanogen 10 with clockwordmod the touch screen wouldn't work. I tried to get back to Clean Rom 6.5 and tied to flash TWRP as my bootloader. It went bad from there. Now I cannot get to recovery. It appeas I don't have a bootloader flashed. I used FastbootFlasher_V2.4 and flashed TWRP. It said it was sent. Still won't go to recovery. I downloaded the RUU.exe and tried that process. It failed too. After I tried to restore the RUU it said to reboot. I did and then the cyanogen logo came on and hung. I went to fastboot and typed in fastboot erase cache. No help. Here's my screen info if that helps:
****TAMPERD****
****UNLOCKED****
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT- 2.14.0000
RADIO- 0.24p.32.09.06
OpenDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-boot
Vov 26 2012, 18:37:14:-1
Is it bricked??

marcadams67 said:
I have an HTC One X from AT&T. I recently got root and started playing. I flashed Clean Rom 6.5 using clockwordmod and it went well. Used it about a week and got bored. (Later I saw that TWRP was needed for that.) I decided I wanted to try a Cyanogen Mod but realized later after research that my phone received the OTA update that only allows Sense ROMS on my phone. After I flashed Cyanogen 10 with clockwordmod the touch screen wouldn't work. I tried to get back to Clean Rom 6.5 and tied to flash TWRP as my bootloader. It went bad from there. Now I cannot get to recovery. It appeas I don't have a bootloader flashed. I used FastbootFlasher_V2.4 and flashed TWRP. It said it was sent. Still won't go to recovery. I downloaded the RUU.exe and tried that process. It failed too. After I tried to restore the RUU it said to reboot. I did and then the cyanogen logo came on and hung. I went to fastboot and typed in fastboot erase cache. No help. Here's my screen info if that helps:
****TAMPERD****
****UNLOCKED****
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT- 2.14.0000
RADIO- 0.24p.32.09.06
OpenDSP-v34.1.0.45.1219
eMMC-boot
Vov 26 2012, 18:37:14:-1
Is it bricked??
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Slow up.... What if anything can you access on phone? Can you access hboot
Power on + volume down
Being your s-on it's near impossible to kill the bootloader
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda premium

You've given us your bootloader info so I doubt you've killed the bootloader. If it turns on it's far from bricked. Did you mean you can't get into recovery? Have you tried flashing a recovery to fix it?
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
You've given us your bootloader info so I doubt you've killed the bootloader. If it turns on it's far from bricked. Did you mean you can't get into recovery? Have you tried flashing a recovery to fix it?
Sent from my Evita
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Didn't make much sense and he hasn't been back maybe he relaxed and got it running lol
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda premium

Either that or he ran over it with his truck and claimed insurance
Sent from my Evita

Sorry I got it working again.
timmaaa said:
Either that or he ran over it with his truck and claimed insurance
Sent from my Evita
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I got it back later that night. Sorry I didn't respond, had a panic attack and did some reading. You guys rock!

Thanks for the reply guys.
I got it later that evening. I'm sure I'll need help in the future. Thanks again,

[Q] Can't factory restore

Hello
Around a year ago, I began to try and get to the position where I could install a non-O2 ROM on my Sensation XE. It was the first time I had attempted such a thing. After carefully following a number of tutorials on xda-developers, I got an error that I was unable to resolve; no amount of google searches came up with a solution that worked. So I began to undo various changed that I had made up until that point and the phone has been fine.
Today I tried to factory reset the device, including wiping the SD card. Before the wipe, I backed up ONLY the documents/photos/media folders on the SD card.
Upon first try, the SD card was wiped, however the device was in a non-restored state. I instructed a restore again, and this time I got stuck in a bootloader loop, where I was unable to get out of the bootloader.
Taking the battery out/putting back in/powering on got me back into the operating system, but still with no restore taken place.
If I repeat the instruction to restore, I end up back at the bootloader. Factory Restore/Recover options in the bootloader have no effect.
Here is what the bootloader says:
Sensation XE - O2 UK
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.27.0000
RADIO-11.23.3504.07_M2
OpenADSP-v02.6.0.2226.00.0131
eMMC-boot
Jan 13, 2012, 17:33:34
FASTBOOT USB:
VOL UP...
VOL DOWN...
POWER...
BOOTLOADER
REBOOT
REBOOT BOOTLOADER
POWER DOWN
---------------------
SLECTING BOOTLOADER THEN GIVES OPTIONS:
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
---------------------------------------
I have attached grabs of all the software versions I'm running.
So the phone itself works fine; I just can't get it to factory restore. I am guessing I have at some point, wiped the required data necessary for the restore to take place, but I have no idea if I am right, and if I am right, how on earth I go about fixing it!
Any help/advice would be gratefully received.

Have u tried changing the hboot maybe to hboot 1.29 cz wen u change the hboot it wipes everything
sent by v.konvict

v.konvict said:
Have u tried changing the hboot maybe to hboot 1.29 cz wen u change the hboot it wipes everything
sent by v.konvict
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Hey. Sorry, do you mean did I try that before and that may be what has caused the issue, or do you mean I should now try and change the hboot version, as that may help?

oojafink said:
Hey. Sorry, do you mean did I try that before and that may be what has caused the issue, or do you mean I should now try and change the hboot version, as that may help?
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Am saying you could try it now maybe it could help
sent by v.konvict

According to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27019794&postcount=2 I need to S-OFF before updating HBOOT, and it's the S-OFF part that I was unable to do last time because during the process I got the error that stopped me from progressing any further.

oojafink said:
According to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27019794&postcount=2 I need to S-OFF before updating HBOOT, and it's the S-OFF part that I was unable to do last time because during the process I got the error that stopped me from progressing any further.
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i suggest to run a ruu.exe
or unlock the bootloader again and flash any rom from recovery(since you are on S-ON use 4ext recovery)
by the way don't search on sensation xl forums
they are completely different devices

Well I only had to unlocked the bootloader again, and the device successfully performed a Factory Restore
I have no intention of carrying on, so this thread can be closed/forgotten.
Thanks for the help!

[HELP] failed ROM flash

Hi guys,
I hope you can give me some pointers?
I have in front of me a HTC ONE S, it's not mine but a friend of my son, they've tried to flash a new ROM, failed and it's sat in a drawer for months, he volunteered me to have a look!
The only info I have on the failed flashing process is that "this is as far as she got"! So I can only go on what I in front of me.
The phone is stuck in a reboot cycle and never appears to start to run, i only get the HTC logo.
I can boot into TWRP, so she's managed to unlock and install recovery.
I can mount USB storage and copy files onto phone, there were no files here, only what I've copied.
Any ROM I've downloaded just fails, message usually reports that it's failed to mount partition.
I don't know if this is a S3 or S4.
Information I have;
from the label under the rear cover
PJ40100
NM8PJ40100
From the recovery screen;
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.15.0000
RADIO-1.11.50.05.28
OpenDSP-v31.1.0.45.0815
eMMC-boot
Dec 14 2012,17:10:57:-1
The version of TWRP is 2.2.1. I can see there's a newer TWRP, I guess I should update, how can I do this if I can't boot the phone?
So, from the above can I identify if it's a S3 or S4?
Do I need to format storage before flashing a ROM, or is there something else I need to do so I can successfully flash a new ROM?
Yours hopefully
Chris

I'm guessing I at least need to update TWRP, but I can't see a way of doing this with the current installed version other than via the phone OS.
What I can't find is an old ROM that works with this TWRP that I can just get running and work through the upgrades from there, anybody got any suggestions?
Chris

Ah ha, so I now know that I have a "soft brick"! I have managed to update TWRP to 2.8.7.0 I've tried a few ROMs but none boot, I'm therefore thinking that I've chosen an incompatible ROM? I still don't know what version of ONE S I have in front of me.
Googling "NM8PJ40100" seems inconclusive , but S4 comes up more than S3, can anyone provide any more definitive answers?
Please?
Chris

You have a European S4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2756192 for more info.

I've got it working, although I'm not really sure what the right combination was. I updated TWRP to 2.8.7.1 and tried flashing a few ROMS, but somewhere in that process I lost the ability to mount the SD card, and back to stuck in a boot loop.
Now more confident I reflashed TWRP 2.8.7.1, formated all phone partitions from within TWRP and mounted SD card. My PC didn't recognised the phone so I then formatted it from Windows, copied over ROM & GAPPS, flashed and now all OK.
I'm guessing the phone partitions got screwed somewhere, by me or by the owner, or both!
Finally got there and knowing what type of ROM I needed helped, so thank you kdd988!
Chris

Hi there Chris,
I am having the same problem with a girl's HTC One S as well (I can't remember if I had determine if it was and S3 or an S4 model). After going through the process to try to flash to custom ROM, during the process, it just gave this error message (can't remember what exactly unfortunately, was over 6 months ago), this was after wiping the Dalvik Cache, so I assume that clears out the original factory ROM?
So, somehow it got stuck in a similar fashion as you mentioned
Info under back cover:
Moel: PJ40110
FCC ID: NM8PJ40110
IC: 411B-PJ40110
ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.1.5
HTC Recovery Screen
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.15.0000
RADIO-1.13.50.05.31
OpenDSP-v31.1.0.45.0815
eMMC-boot
Dec 14 2012,17:10:57:-1
This one, when you power it on, it goes straight to the CLockworkMod screen.
Can you tell me the exact procedure you used to get the ROM uploaded to the phone memory so then to flash it within the recovery interface.
The phone is no longer recognized as a device on the PC currently so no way to access the phone's internal memory to put the files on etc
Cheers
Ross