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Bricked, I think?

so get this...
I just rooted my sensation and was waiting for a custom ROM to download through the phones browser. My buddy came over and I was setting him up with root for his Aria and for some reason his phone got stuck after getting s off. I tried to use adb to flash the recovery to his phone but it just said "waiting for device" forever. After about 10 mins I said forget it, too nice outside and unplugged his phone, I didn't think to close adb first but I put my phone on the usb to charge and then it instantly flashed the Aria recovery to my phone.................
Good news is I can root his phone knowing it was the wrong installed driver before. Bad news is I now can only get into fastboot (white screen, skating androids at the bottom) where it still says revolutionary at the top but I can see the Aria's radio and the wrong HBOOT version. I still have the factory reset, recovery etc options but if it boots up it'll get stuck at the stock HTC image. I tried flashing CWM recovery through adb the exact same way but it just says waiting for device now too? I may have typed the code wrong or do I need Aria drivers now? I assume there is a way out since I'm still in fastboot but not sure.
Any help would be appreciated and thanked! Until then, its back to my g2x, its not so bad...

you would need to download the RUU (Rom Update Utility) for your phone, where you get it I have no idea, hopefully another more skilled member will be able to point you in this direction..... I got the Vodafone uk one from a thread on here but I for the life of e can not remember where.

Nah I figured it out, I downloaded the img file and flashed the zip in hboot, then used adb to push the stock radio back up. I was really scared there for awhile but thanks to this place I got a bunch of help.. Love this place.. Thanks anyway though man!

It's good to know that a bad radio no longer prevents booting to hboot. I bricked a g1 back in the day from having an hboot and radio that were incompatible with each other. The thing wouldn't boot to anything other than a special service mode that is only useful if you solder in a hardware jtag.
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[Q] Possibly Bricked Sensation Help Please!! (Noob)

Hello all, I'm hoping there are some sincere members will to help out a total noob.
I picked up my sensation and stumbled upon this website, in order to find a way to "jailbreak" my phone (I use that term lightly, I was a previous iPhone user and so far know very little, if nothing, about android development.
Lets get to it, to start I was attracted to installing this rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849
At the time of noticing this post, my phone was brand new-- I read carefuly and understood that I should follow this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
I correctly (to my knowledge) Installed S-Off, ClockWork, Root, SuperCID..
While waiting for the Revolution rom to download, I started fooling around with my phone, noticed I was having Wifi errors -- would not connect, constantly trying to obtain IP address..
So heres where I think I goofed, I preformed a factory reset from my device, completely wiped the SD, -- did not fix wifi problem. I returned to the post about installing S-off, CWR, etc...
And understood that, "IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING WIFI ERROR.
Currently the only way to fix this is to flash Stock Rom again or Custom Rom."
I then proceeded to follow STEP 4 in that guide in attempt to reinstall stock rom.
I was directed to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074559
and downloaded
RUU_Pyramid_BM_1.35.666.1_Radio_10.50.9007.00U_10. 12.9007.21_2M_release_200555_signed
As I understood BM to stand for Bell Mobility (my carrier).
I went through the process, failed. I now have a black screen with HTC logo in the middle with exclamation marks in all four corners. There is a progress bar that is at approximately 90%. No matter what I've tried I cannot return to the boot menu.
At this point I am almost certain I've bricked my phone (fail), but if theres any possible way of fixing and returning to factory settings and fixing my wifi error I would greatly appreciate any help.
If I'm pretty much screwed I'd like to know where to go from here? Will I have to purchase a new phone.
Apologies if this post has been covered, (I did search the forums) but I've grown desperate and am certainly worried.
Please Help!!! What do I do?

sounds bad...you cant get to the fastboot menu at all? not even after a battery pull?

No, not after a battery pull or sdcard switch (idk if that does anything or not, but I tried it.)

hmmm....methinks its bricked...and we have no jtag or download mode :/
the only other option it to try to flash an eng hboot for fastboot commands, or an older RUU from the sd card.
it seems to me the only course of action is using a pg*****.img from the sd card and keep trying to access fastboot, or just return for repair
when its in this htc logo with exclimation screen, can you run ANY adb commands?

I'm going to try an older RUU, and no I cannot run any adb commands because the command prompt flashes for only a second.
One thing, when I pull out the USB
PVT Pyramid S-OFF
HBoot 1.17.0011
Radio 10.12.9007.21_2M
eMMC-boot
*date/time*
RUU
will flash on the screen for a moment, this is the only time (other than battery out) when it is not on HTC Logo with exlamations..
(soo bricked yeah?, feels good man.)
Obviously my warrantee is voided right, so how can I send in for repair? Will I end up having to purchase a new phone?..

dont just run a .bat or exe for commands, go to run>cmd and type commands manually, and see what it returns, espicially if you get return on "adb device" (no quotes)
also, if it shows the software info, it *should* flash any RUU/recovery files on the sd card, and then you can use CWM or TWRP to get a little farther...
im dl'ing an RUU to lookin to something else that might help, but if you dont mind a little work, you might be able to get it going again

if its easier, just pm me and i can help you out of the threads, with quicker response

Anything I can do to get it working again, just remember I'm really new, I'll catch on quick, but I've only been at this stuff a day! Also wanted to thank you properly, since I have yet too. So thanks for the help so far.
So, silly me, I can somewhat run adb commands now. But adb is not showing my device, however I type the commands
"fastboot reboot-bootloader"
"fastboot reboot"
and it reboots it, but returns it to the exclamation screen,
"fastboot getvar cid" seems to also be working, (I only know limited commands, from the tutorial)

awesome, that means you still have a chance!
ok gimme a moment, im checking something as we speak
EDIT* also, thanks for the "thanks"

ok try these commands (though they might not work on your hboot) and reply the output:
fastboot oem partition_test
fastboot oem test_emmc
these are to make sure there are no issues with any tables
also is this a bell sensation? if so, you will have to superCID to install the latest EU RUU, which may solve all your problems

also, this is the easiest way to flash an RUU for you (MUST BE SuperCID!):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11441747&postcount=1

Output..:
C:\adb>fastboot oem partition_test
... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.019s]
finished. totla time: 0.019s
C:\adb>fastboot oem test_emmc
... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.021s]
finished. total time: 0.022s
And yes, bell sensation.

blerg, i thought it might output the errors, but thats more of a pc issue, not the phone
give the manual RUU a shot, seems to be the easiest/best chance atm, but try to supercid first
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
go to step 4

I will give the manual RUU, which RUU do you suggest I try?

RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.45.401.2_Radio_10.56.9035 .00U_10.14.9035.01_M_release_208857_signed
bottom of the list in the first post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13698101&postcount=1

So I actually downloaded
RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.24.401.1_Radio_10.39.9007 .00P_10.11.9007.09_M2_release_190934_signed
and ran it off my desktop and it restored my phone ! Yay! So its working fine right now (I think there was just an issue with the BM RUU) .. except for the wifi... my wifi is still not working...
Thanks for you help again.. You got my this far, so if you're ready to give up on me go ahead, but I would really like to sort this issue out..
Not quite sure where to go from here, but so thankful the phone is not bricked!

Should I update to the one you posted? I had previously downloaded this

this RUU is better, as for the wifi, lemme find the best wifi fix patch for ya
lol im also at work right now and VERY bored, so this is an excellen time killer

also, this RUU might fix the wifi problem, but if not, you will need to install clockwork recovery or teamwin recovery to flash the .zip of the wifi fix
EDIT* also, try turning off fastboot, reboot the fone, then wipe dalvik cache in recovery and boot back in, then check the wifi

if the wifi still doesnt work, give this a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15867636&postcount=42179

WiFi error's after flashing HTC unlock bootloader

Boy oh boy, I had a really tough few days trying to flash a custom rom. I was pretty heavy into flashing roms from the G1 days until I got my sensation on the day it was released. I then took a long break. Well 2 days ago I decided to Unlock my Bootloader through the HTC website. Everything went well. I did notice the ******UNLOCKED****** in the bootloader I also noticed the S-ON(security was still on). I didn't think this mattered. Was I ever wrong. With that S-On you cannot flash new radio's. I have never been able to flash a PG58IMG.zip file from hboot/fastboot. I can however flash recovery's from fastboot using (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
Seems as if every single rom I tried needs the Security-OFF to work correctly. I was able to put clockwork mod 5.0 on my phone, and install super wipe, and several roms, the problem I ran into is I would get a error under the switch for wifi. Wifi would not work on any of the 5 roms I tried before this one. I was wanting to give up and go back to stock for several hours. I tried the RUU to bring me back to build 1.27 and build 1.29 both were unsuccessful. I was stuck at build 1.73.401.2 and no way possible to get back to stock. And picture this living in a area with tmobile that is still using the edge network(2 ****ing g) OMFG I was so mad trying to even boot a new rom without wifi is a nightmare, took me literally 20 minutes to download rom manager. Anyway's this rom was the last one I tried before busting my phone into pieces.
Rom's I tried:
1. Android Revolution 3.6.1, and 4.1 (3.6.1 booted but had no wifi)
2. RCMix 3.5 v04 (bootloop)
3. LeeDroid booted fine (no wifi)
4. I believe there was one other I tried. NO GO
5. Then I flashed this one late last night, and to my surprised it worked.
I was so happy I almost pissed myself.
Oh yeah I tried many irc channels, one was the revolutionary.io irc channel, I was able to successfully run the rev.io tool and it showed as a success however my S-was still ON. I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes looking for other ideas. They pretty much told me I was screwed and that it had never been tested after you unlocked through HTC. And it simply might never work.
Anyway I guess what I am getting at. For anyone else that might have to go through what I did.
1. How in the world can you get you phone back to complete stock?
2. Why is this happening?
3. Why is my wifi not working with any other rom? And everyone else's is?
4. How do I go about getting my S-OFF?
5. Does anyone know if you can RELOCK your bootloader through HTC so that I can turn the SECURITY-OFF and "then" unlock the bootloader.
I probably have more question's. I just wanted to see if I might be able to get a few answers from you fine people. Help me understand what in the world is going on and how many other people are dealing with what I am dealing with.

droiddv said:
Boy oh boy, I had a really tough few days trying to flash a custom rom. I was pretty heavy into flashing roms from the G1 days until I got my sensation on the day it was released. I then took a long break. Well 2 days ago I decided to Unlock my Bootloader through the HTC website. Everything went well. I did notice the ******UNLOCKED****** in the bootloader I also noticed the S-ON(security was still on). I didn't think this mattered. Was I ever wrong. With that S-On you cannot flash new radio's. I have never been able to flash a PG58IMG.zip file from hboot/fastboot. I can however flash recovery's from fastboot using (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
Seems as if every single rom I tried needs the Security-OFF to work correctly. I was able to put clockwork mod 5.0 on my phone, and install super wipe, and several roms, the problem I ran into is I would get a error under the switch for wifi. Wifi would not work on any of the 5 roms I tried before this one. I was wanting to give up and go back to stock for several hours. I tried the RUU to bring me back to build 1.27 and build 1.29 both were unsuccessful. I was stuck at build 1.73.401.2 and no way possible to get back to stock. And picture this living in a area with tmobile that is still using the edge network(2 ****ing g) OMFG I was so mad trying to even boot a new rom without wifi is a nightmare, took me literally 20 minutes to download rom manager. Anyway's this rom was the last one I tried before busting my phone into pieces.
Rom's I tried:
1. Android Revolution 3.6.1, and 4.1 (3.6.1 booted but had no wifi)
2. RCMix 3.5 v04 (bootloop)
3. LeeDroid booted fine (no wifi)
4. I believe there was one other I tried. NO GO
5. Then I flashed this one late last night, and to my surprised it worked.
I was so happy I almost pissed myself.
Oh yeah I tried many irc channels, one was the revolutionary.io irc channel, I was able to successfully run the rev.io tool and it showed as a success however my S-was still ON. I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes looking for other ideas. They pretty much told me I was screwed and that it had never been tested after you unlocked through HTC. And it simply might never work.
Anyway I guess what I am getting at. For anyone else that might have to go through what I did.
1. How in the world can you get you phone back to complete stock?
2. Why is this happening?
3. Why is my wifi not working with any other rom? And everyone else's is?
4. How do I go about getting my S-OFF?
5. Does anyone know if you can RELOCK your bootloader through HTC so that I can turn the SECURITY-OFF and "then" unlock the bootloader.
I probably have more question's. I just wanted to see if I might be able to get a few answers from you fine people. Help me understand what in the world is going on and how many other people are dealing with what I am dealing with.
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Personally i would just do the normal s-off method as it gives you a little more freedom compared to HTC unlocking method.
My wifi is dead too, but i have no way of fixing it at all, i've got a thread called "wifi is dead" in the q+a section of the sensation forum.
Let me know if you get yours working, i imagine that if you revert your phone back to stock again and then use the alpha rev method that you will have better luck.

1. You can Relock your bootloader using HTC site but this time u will see Relocked instead of Locked
2. No idea
3. Did you try resetting your router? Works for me. Also try flashing a different radio.
4. No idea
5. You can relock bootloader on HTC site but have no idea of you can unlock it with Revolutionary again.

Try write secureflag command, just search for.the correct one on xda. Also, try flashing your RUU and then s-offing via revo.
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tinky1 said:
Try write secureflag command, just search for.the correct one on xda. Also, try flashing your RUU and then s-offing via revo again. You might need eng s-off, pm EddyOS, he should be able to help, I believe he's done it before.
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[ Solved ] WiFi error , Radio flash Problem , and revert back to any Custom Rom
droiddv said:
Well 2 days ago I decided to Unlock my Bootloader through the HTC website. Everything went well. I did notice the ******UNLOCKED****** in the bootloader I also noticed the S-ON (security was still on). I didn't think this mattered. Was I ever wrong. With that S-On you cannot flash new radio's. I have never been able to flash a PG58IMG.zip file from hboot/fastboot. I can however flash recovery's from fastboot using (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img).
Seems as if every single rom I tried needs the Security-OFF to work correctly. I was able to put clockwork mod 5.0 on my phone, and install super wipe, and several roms, the problem I ran into is I would get a error under the switch for wifi. Wifi would not work on any of the 5 roms I tried before this one. I was wanting to give up and go back to stock for several hours. I tried the RUU to bring me back to build 1.27 and build 1.29 both were unsuccessful. I was stuck at build 1.73.401.2 and no way possible to get back to stock.
Oh yeah I tried many irc channels, one was the revolutionary.io irc channel, I was able to successfully run the rev.io tool and it showed as a success however my S-was still ON. I talked to these guys for about 45 minutes looking for other ideas. They pretty much told me I was screwed and that it had never been tested after you unlocked through HTC. And it simply might never work.
5. Does anyone know if you can RELOCK your bootloader through HTC so that I can turn the SECURITY-OFF and "then" unlock the bootloader.
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[Solved ] WiFi error , Flash Radio Problem , Install any Custom Rom without errors , Wrong S-on Brick
this is Solved and the wifi error is because of kernel included in Boot.img
you can use the following solution to install any custom rom without wifi errors
first read " how htc dev works " to have an understanding why this happened to you and why you are still S-on and why you can't flash Radio . link is here " Solve WiFi Errors , Radio Flashing Problem , Caused by htc Dev Unlock Method "
the solution itself is in the following link , Read title " Custom Rom Flash " and "[FONT=&quot][ Implementation ][/FONT][FONT=&quot] Successful S-OFF using my above method " . [/FONT]link is here " Successful S-OFF after brick (wrong S-ON) for ICS or GB , Downgrade OTA firmware "
this also solve wrong S-on Brick , hope that helps
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Help needed please.... got into a dead end with my One X

Hi all, here's a long story cut short:
1. Flashed the stock 2.23.707.2 de-odexed rom on my One XL (the S4 version of One X), was running 4.0.4 fine
2. Didn't like the new radio that came with 2.23, tried flashing back to the 1.88 Asia radio which worked best for me, took much longer than usual then appeared to be successfully flashed only to find in bootloader the radio version hasn't changed and once rebooted the baseband info becomes "unknown" and the phone sees no signal at all, probably a messed up radio...
3. (the stupidest of my moves) Relocked my phone using the HTCdev way in an attempt to RUU back to stock and start from scratch, failed with an error code140 (not surprisingly due to the higher hboot version), then noticed the HTCdev unlock code doesn't work anymore. Tried obtaining the unlock_code.bin again in case something changed, but new code is no good either.
Therefore I now have a phone that is Relocke and can't use TWRP recovery, can't boot up as it hits a block at the initial setup (explained below), and one that for some strange reason cannot be unlocked again. I can boot to bootloader, go to fastboot and push the unlock_code.bin file via usb, it will go through and i see the normal unlock confirmation screen on the phone, but choosing yes each time the phone will reboot and when checking in bootloader it still shows the phone is "Relocked". What's worse, after "unlcoking bootloader" the phone now goes into the setup wizard each time it boots up, but perhaps due to the messed up radio thing it can't read the carriers available and thus only shows the white screen with the HTC logo on it, no way forwar. This is where I get completely stuck now.
I can't post in the Development page due to my freshness in xda, but I am not a complete newbie and have owned a Desire, a Sensation and now the One X, each time going through the root/supercid/custom recovery/custom rom/flashing radios processes without major problems so I will say I do have basic knowledge with all these things.
Anyway if someone can shed some light on how I can get out of this mess without having to send the phone back to HTC for some pricey repair, it would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks for your attention,
Sunster

sunster00 said:
Hi all, here's a long story cut short:
1. Flashed the stock 2.23.707.2 de-odexed rom on my One XL (the S4 version of One X), was running 4.0.4 fine
2. Didn't like the new radio that came with 2.23, tried flashing back to the 1.88 Asia radio which worked best for me, took much longer than usual then appeared to be successfully flashed only to find in bootloader the radio version hasn't changed and once rebooted the baseband info becomes "unknown" and the phone sees no signal at all, probably a messed up radio...
3. (the stupidest of my moves) Relocked my phone using the HTCdev way in an attempt to RUU back to stock and start from scratch, failed with an error code140 (not surprisingly due to the higher hboot version), then noticed the HTCdev unlock code doesn't work anymore. Tried obtaining the unlock_code.bin again in case something changed, but new code is no good either.
Therefore I now have a phone that is Relocke and can't use TWRP recovery, can't boot up as it hits a block at the initial setup (explained below), and one that for some strange reason cannot be unlocked again. I can boot to bootloader, go to fastboot and push the unlock_code.bin file via usb, it will go through and i see the normal unlock confirmation screen on the phone, but choosing yes each time the phone will reboot and when checking in bootloader it still shows the phone is "Relocked". What's worse, after "unlcoking bootloader" the phone now goes into the setup wizard each time it boots up, but perhaps due to the messed up radio thing it can't read the carriers available and thus only shows the white screen with the HTC logo on it, no way forwar. This is where I get completely stuck now.
I can't post in the Development page due to my freshness in xda, but I am not a complete newbie and have owned a Desire, a Sensation and now the One X, each time going through the root/supercid/custom recovery/custom rom/flashing radios processes without major problems so I will say I do have basic knowledge with all these things.
Anyway if someone can shed some light on how I can get out of this mess without having to send the phone back to HTC for some pricey repair, it would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks for your attention,
Sunster
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Try this
First, make sure you're in fastboot mode, then type 'fastboot oem rebootRUU'
Next, make sure you have the .zip RUU file in the same folder and type 'fastboot flash zip XXX.zip' (replace XXX with whatever it's called, of course)
Now, you can see what is actually happening when you are flashing the RUU. In my case, there was 2 points where it told me to "re-flush image immediately" or something like that. When I ran the last command again (fastboot flash zip XXX.zip) it went a bit further each try, but it took until the 3rd try before it was successful.
thanks to kilo89 for method
so this method allows u to downgrade no matter whats your version.. should workout

jags_the1 said:
Try this
First, make sure you're in fastboot mode, then type 'fastboot oem rebootRUU'
Next, make sure you have the .zip RUU file in the same folder and type 'fastboot flash zip XXX.zip' (replace XXX with whatever it's called, of course)
Now, you can see what is actually happening when you are flashing the RUU. In my case, there was 2 points where it told me to "re-flush image immediately" or something like that. When I ran the last command again (fastboot flash zip XXX.zip) it went a bit further each try, but it took until the 3rd try before it was successful.
thanks to kilo89 for method
so this method allows u to downgrade no matter whats your version.. should workout
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Hi mate thanks for offering advice and help. I have not had to use your method as I decided to give the HTC bootloader unlock code one final try before proceeding to your rescue plan and all of a sudden it was successful again. I got into recovery and did a nandroid restore so am back online again, but have nevertheless made note of your method in case I become stuck again in the future. Thanks anyway for your reply! :good:

[Q] Problems getting back to stock

Hi everyone,
I rooted my phone and played around with some custom roms, but I need to send my phone to get it repaired. I attempted to unroot and revert back to stock.
I followed a video, but I can't link it.
The steps were:
Flash the stock recovery.img
Relock the phone
Install the RUU
It was all going smoothly, until I realised my phone is on 2.17 and not 1.26, the RUU didn't work, and now it is stuck in the fastboot menu.
My CID is OPTUS001, is there anything I can do? I've been frantically searching, but I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this.
All help is incredibly appreciated!

your in the wrong forum you need to go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1533

Just download the proper ruu for your software version and run it with your phone connected to your pc in fastboot.
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