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[Q] I hope I didn't brick my phone

I'm new to android and really hope I didn't pooch my phone.
I tried installing Jelly Bean and now can't do much of anything. I can get into bootloader and load up team windows recovery (not sure what to do in there)
When I am in fastboot and try through a command prompt adb devices doesn't list the HTC One X (Rogers, Canada)
I really am not sure what to do. I have downloaded a ton of stuff nothing seems to make a difference (HTC drivers, img and zip files..) I think it boils down to getting some direction on what troubleshooting to do with the exact files I would need to use.

flash a rom in recovery ofcourse.
adb doesnt work in hboot only fastboot. your phone is fine. you need to copy the rom zips to your sdcard. then go to install inside recovery. you can mount your sdcard inside recovery also so you can copy stuff. you should still be able to reboot the system normal and have it boot fine. unlocking and flashing recovery doesnt wipe your phone.

DvineLord said:
flash a rom in recovery ofcourse.
adb doesnt work in hboot only fastboot. your phone is fine. you need to copy the rom zips to your sdcard. then go to install inside recovery. you can mount your sdcard inside recovery also so you can copy stuff. you should still be able to reboot the system normal and have it boot fine. unlocking and flashing recovery doesnt wipe your phone.
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Fair enough I have a couple rom zips I think
PJ83IMG_Evita_UL_Rogers_WWE_1.73.631.1_Radio_0.16a.32.09.06_10.81.32.14L_release_254934_signed.zip
One_X_2.17.401.2_deodexed.zip
ROM-017.zip
cm10_endeavoru-ota-eng.noeri-017.zip
None of these worked.. they all failed.

DvineLord said:
flash a rom in recovery ofcourse.
adb doesnt work in hboot only fastboot. your phone is fine. you need to copy the rom zips to your sdcard. then go to install inside recovery. you can mount your sdcard inside recovery also so you can copy stuff. you should still be able to reboot the system normal and have it boot fine. unlocking and flashing recovery doesnt wipe your phone.
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This^ and next time post in the q&a section
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mblanke said:
Fair enough I have a couple rom zips I think
PJ83IMG_Evita_UL_Rogers_WWE_1.73.631.1_Radio_0.16a.32.09.06_10.81.32.14L_release_254934_signed.zip
One_X_2.17.401.2_deodexed.zip
ROM-017.zip
cm10_endeavoru-ota-eng.noeri-017.zip
None of these worked.. they all failed.
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Those are old(1st one) which you can't flash in recovery anyways since its an RUU or not for your phone(Other 2).

Don't flash the endeavoru zip. You'll have a beautiful paperweight
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InflatedTitan said:
Don't flash the endeavoru zip. You'll have a beautiful paperweight
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What is my alternative?
Also I'm not 100% sure that I haven't already done that. Does that mean its beyond fixing ?

mblanke said:
What is my alternative?
Also I'm not 100% sure that I haven't already done that. Does that mean its beyond fixing ?
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So you flashed a .zip file, not knowing what it would do or what would happen? Nevertheless, a .zip file not for your device?

No, if you can get into fastboot your fine.... I would just download the correct "Evita" ruu, not endeavor. Run it, do some thorough research and try again......... ruus can be found in the compilation roll up stickied thread
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18th.abn said:
No, if you can get into fastboot your fine.... I would just download the correct "Evita" ruu, not endeavor. Run it, do some thorough research and try again......... ruus can be found in the compilation roll up stickied thread
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I have
PJ83IMG_Evita_UL_Rogers_WWE_1.73.631.1_Radio_0.16a .32.09.06_10.81.32.14L_release_254934_signed.zip
Which seems to be the only Rogers RUU however its also the only one i've seen so far that isn't an exe but a zip file.
Is there an RUU application?

mblanke said:
I have
PJ83IMG_Evita_UL_Rogers_WWE_1.73.631.1_Radio_0.16a .32.09.06_10.81.32.14L_release_254934_signed.zip
Which seems to be the only Rogers RUU however its also the only one i've seen so far that isn't an exe but a zip file.
Is there an RUU application?
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Forget ruu. Flash twrp recovery if you haven't already, download viperXL in our dev section, fire up twrp, mount usb, copy viperXL over, unmount usb, install from zip, select viperXL. Zip, follow prompts, reboot, victory.
Oh then hit my thanks button...
Pm me if you need assistance cuz I am just that nice.
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ptesmoke said:
Forget ruu. Flash twrp recovery if you haven't already, download viperXL in our dev section, fire up twrp, mount usb, copy viperXL over, unmount usb, install from zip, select viperXL. Zip, follow prompts, reboot, victory.
Oh then hit my thanks button...
Pm me if you need assistance cuz I am just that nice.
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It worked!!! you are a god!!! you have no idea how stressed I was getting I leave tomorrow for a 3 week trip

I'm glad to see that your issue was resolved. For future reference, all questiin/help related threads belong in the Q&A aection only.
Thank You.
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[Q] [RESOLVED] Is my phone bricked? Please help

Okay so today I was tinkering with my phone when I accidentally deleted a system file that was crucial. So I went to bootloader and wiped phone (I know that was the wrong thing to do, now). So I have no ROM on my phone. I was able to ADB the ROM I need to my phone on internal storage (not /sdcard) but the problem is whenever I try to flash it, I get the following error over and over in the code area in TWRP "E: failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument). I've gone to the mount options screen and when I try to select sdcard nothing happens, I can't select it. If it's any help, the ROM I'm trying to flash has the official page here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804223 and the ROM I was on before this whole thing is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1868236 . Any help is greatly appreciated, I really need this phone fixed!
EDIT: Alright, so I flashed stock recovery, relocked, and then used my friend's PC (thanks man!) and now my phone is in perfect working condition. Just re-rooted and re-unlocked the bootloader in like 10 minutes, which is funny because it took me like an hour and a half the first time. Anyways, thank you to all the users on this forum for helping me. Appreciate it!

NEVER Factory Reset or Clear Storage from bootloader it'll screw up your storage inside of twrp. I tried formatting storage afterwards in twrp and in windows and it still didn't help twrp see it. I ended up running the ruu again.
easiest thing to do is run the ruu again, reunlock bootloader, flash twrp and flash rom. then never factory reset or clear storage in bootloader again.
if you find another method let me.

DvineLord said:
NEVER Factory Reset or Clear Storage from bootloader it'll screw up your storage inside of twrp. I tried formatting storage afterwards in twrp and in windows and it still didn't help twrp see it. I ended up running the ruu again.
easiest thing to do is run the ruu again, reunlock bootloader, flash twrp and flash rom. then never factory reset or clear storage in bootloader again.
if you find another method let me.
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Okay, sorry what what's the ruu and how do I run it again?
EDIT: So is the ruu the stock ROM? I've done some googling and it appears that it's something to do with exe file. I'm on a Mac, but I can get access to a PC if it's necessary.

RollTribe said:
Okay, sorry what what's the ruu and how do I run it again?
EDIT: So is the ruu the stock ROM? I've done some googling and it appears that it's something to do with exe file. I'm on a Mac, but I can get access to a PC if it's necessary.
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And youll have to learn some simple adb commands tto relock your bootloader..or it won't work someone correct me if wrong

Hi guys yep you'll need to do some adb work to relock for ruu. However... if you still have recovery? You could try flashing a clean ROM. Then flash the cm10 over that. Of course youll need to delete cache,s before flashing cm10. I'd give that a shot first.
(Edit) I just noticed you having the mount issue also... ignore that. Just check you PC it should still show up. And it may ask you to format the drive? Your OK to do that fat32.
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subarudroid, the sdcard partition is fubar that's why he needs to ruu. reread the posts.

subarudroid said:
Hi guys yep you'll need to do some adb work to relock for ruu. However... if you still have recovery? You could try flashing a clean ROM. Then flash the cm10 over that. Of course youll need to delete cache,s before flashing cm10. I'd give that a shot first.
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I can't flash any ROM because I keep getting that error mentioned in the original post.

let us know when you relock your bootloader and ruu back to stock
boot into bootloader run "fastboot oem lock" then run the ruu

You still have recovery. Right? You should still be OK. Twrp is not letting you mount SD. Right?
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subarudroid said:
You still have recovery. Right? You should still be OK. Twrp is not letting you mount SD. Right?
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He needs to relock bl and ruu ..download aan ruu. That will be ok. If you need help with adb check out gunnymans stickied thread

Easiest way to fix is to connect phone to pc, then select mount, mount usb in twrp and windows will prompt you to format.
Then once that is done you can copy your rom of choice across unmount and flash.
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thejosh86 said:
Easiest way to fix is to connect phone to pc, then select mount, mount usb in twrp and windows will prompt you to format.
Then once that is done you can copy your rom of choice across unmount and flash.
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A little reading will the trick for u he wiped from bootloader menu and now cannot mount through twrp

Twrp is known for having mount issue. I'm tell in ya if you USB to PC it will still find the SD as long as you have the HTC drivers installed. Unless your twrp is gone? Then you need to ruu.
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subarudroid said:
You still have recovery. Right? You should still be OK. Twrp is not letting you mount SD. Right?
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omario8484 said:
He needs to relock bl and ruu ..download aan ruu. That will be ok. If you need help with adb check out gunnymans stickied thread
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Yes, I still have recovery and twrp is not letting me mount sd card. I'm trying to get the ruu to work, however, I have a Mac and getting it to work in a third party program like Wine or Parallels isn't easy, but I'm making progress. If there's another way to run the ruu on Mac, let me know.

I don't know jack [email protected] about Mac. Wish I had money for one of those. any Mac genius's out there?
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subarudroid said:
I don't know jack [email protected] about Mac. Wish I had money for one of those. any Mac genius's out there?
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Twrp is reliable I think u got it mixed up but cwm is known for having mount issues:angel: and @op did y relock bl?

omario8484 said:
Twrp is reliable I think u got it mixed up but cwm is known for having mount issues:angel: and @op did y relock bl?
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CWM doesn't work at all on the HOX. I'll find the TWRP thread on it for you.
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I don't want to start any arguments or flame jobs. evidence or help if you will.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808068
Here are just a few of several that have the same issue with twrp. Just as I did when I rooted my HOX.

subarudroid said:
CWM doesn't work at all on the HOX. I'll find the TWRP thread on it for you.
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I don't want to start any arguments or flame jobs. evidence or help if you will.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808068
Here are just a few of several that have the same issue with twrp. Just as I did when I rooted my HOX.
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But that was way back when its young and fresh days now its quite stable
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And second example was cwm. And cwm does work but not the international version we have an unofficial unreliable build

I was using just a little sarcasm about cwm. that second thread does in fact discuss the problem with twrp as well. I just hate to see rolltribe go though all the trouble of ruu when it may be possible not to do so.
Cheers
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subarudroid said:
I was using just a little sarcasm about cwm. that second thread does in fact discuss the problem with twrp as well. I just hate to see rolltribe go though all the trouble of ruu when it may be possible not to do so.
Cheers
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That's what I was aiming for as well - why ruu when there's an easier way that should work providing the right drivers etc are installed.
I wiped my phone via bootloader 3 times in one evening by being to quick on the volume to power trigger and brought it back using what I said above.
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[ATTENTION] IF your on HBOOT 1.14 (firmware 2.20) first flash boot.img then flash ROM

Especially for people who rooted their phones recently using X-Factor root exploit
"If you have the newer HBOOT 1.14 (you probably do if coming from stock 2.20), boot.img's will have to be flashed separately via fastboot. Extract the boot.img from you ROM zip of choice and put it in the same directory as fastboot. Reboot your device into boot loader and run "'fastboot flash boot boot.img' (no quotes)
You can then flash the ROM" - thanks to
Guylncognito721
How to flash Custom Recovery and ROM after 2.20 root - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33179690
More information
"if you are flashing similar ROMs ( having same kernel ).. there is no need to flash boot.img separately. But say if you wanna switch from sense to aosp you must do that as they have different kernels.
Again if you are just upgrading from older version to newer version of same ROM and if there are no kernel changes no need to flash it" (thanks kancherlapraneeth)
I have seen so many topics in Q&A thread regarding this issue, thought this would help ppl

Butchered my name...
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GuyIncognito721 said:
Butchered my name...
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Sorry bro.. Corrected it

If you have flashed viperROM from stock 2.20 do you still have 1.14 boot? Do I still have to flash boot separate?
And would it be worth it to just ruu to 1.85
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Kole_Ackerson said:
If you have flashed viperROM from stock 2.20 do you still have 1.14 boot? Do I still have to flash boot separate?
And would it be worth it to just ruu to 1.85
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Yes.
Yes.
You can't ruu to 1.85 as downgrading hboot is not possible.
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GuyIncognito721 said:
Yes.
Yes.
You can't ruu to 1.85 as downgrading hboot is not possible.
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Oh wait, s-off is needed to downgrade isn't it.. haha blonde moment
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Bumping this.
WR
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So what happens if you don't? I did the exploit and then installed Calkulin's ROM and it seems to be going fine without flashing the boot.img. Maybe this is why another ROM I tried didn't work (got stuck on the Paranoid Android screen).

ChummyDays said:
Because it stays on the stock kernel. Paranoidandroid got stuck because it probably can't run on the stock kernel... calkulin's ROM is somewhat close to the stock ROM (4.0.4 and sense)
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Aha, good to know. Thanks!

Ok I am getting "sending 'boot' (6156 KB)... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links)) any help?

The_new_user said:
Ok I am getting "sending 'boot' (6156 KB)... FAILED (status read failed (Too many links)) any help?
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did you type
fastboot flash boot boot.img

absolutelygrim said:
did you type
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Yes I am in the correct directory and have my boot.img there I am typing fastboot flash boot boot.img I even tried fastboot erase cache but I am still getting the too many links error.
Going to try rebooting the computer and phone to see what happens I will report back if it fixes it.
Ok a reboot of the phone and comp was no help.
" OK I fixed it. All I did was change usb ports on my computer and it went straight through. " Hope this helps someone else later on.

need help
Can i please get some need some help
I'm currently on paranoid android 2.51 jb ROM. I did the root exploit since I was stuck on 2.20
And before I flashed paranoid android I made a twrp backup of stock sense.
Ok this is what I need help on because I was on 2.20 I had to flash the boot.img along with the custom ROM to get it working, now what I need to know is if I restore my twrp backup do I need to flash the boot.img so I can go back to stock? If so how can I get the boot.img from my backup that I made? I copied backup to my computer to look for the boot.img but there's nothing there
I wanted to post here before I make a new thread

TWRP restore does not boot
I used TWRP 2.3.1 to back up the rooted stock rom on my AT&T One X firmware 2.20. I then proceeded to flash Viper X 2.6.0 but the phone was stuck in boot loop even after I flashed the boot.img in the Viper zip file. I was able to get back into TWRP and run the restore. However, the phone continues to be in a boot loop even after the restore.
Did I miss any steps in the restore process for TWRP?

ViperX isn't for you phone. Your lucky you can get back into twrp. You need to flash your boot.img backup in fastboot.

For people trying to flash the style backup and can't find the boot.img you should be able to fastboot boot.emmc.win just as a normal boot.img.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33743517
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Boot.img and now no image display
hello friends, was trying to root the One X att and for several times but reading the roms were not entered into the system, just by downloading the boot.img boot.img_1.88.707.2 and sent only the boot.img via fastboot, now put the original system goes, but not no picture on display, I can hear the sound of the system by opening and receiving emails but no picture. please help me because I do not know what else to do.

irosemberg said:
hello friends, was trying to root the One X att and for several times but reading the roms were not entered into the system, just by downloading the boot.img boot.img_1.88.707.2 and sent only the boot.img via fastboot, now put the original system goes, but not no picture on display, I can hear the sound of the system by opening and receiving emails but no picture. please help me because I do not know what else to do.
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Can you give more details on what version are you on (2.20?)and are you able to boot??
Create a separate post in Q&A and many people will respond ,this not appropriate place to ask
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I think I know what my problem was. I flashed the rom first THEN the boot.img. Which caused it to get stuck at the boot animation and I would have to go to the boot loader and flash the boo.img.
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sschrupp said:
So what happens if you don't? I did the exploit and then installed Calkulin's ROM and it seems to be going fine without flashing the boot.img. Maybe this is why another ROM I tried didn't work (got stuck on the Paranoid Android screen).
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Ya same issue here too. My mistake was i flashed the boot.img after I flashed the rom. So now I'm rooting and flashing again and see if flashing boot.img the first time works.

I feel so stupid now. I kept doing fastboot boot boot.img. Not fastboot flash boot boot.img. No wonder it always stuck in the boot animation screen all the time. So I flash the boot img then i flash the rom from recovery? What do I wipe in TWRP?

[Q] Phone keeps rebooting

Finished the exploit: when into recovery and now all it does is come to the white HTC screen,and in red small print it says the following:
this build is for developmental purposes only
do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's permission.
Failure to comply may lead to legal action.
then the phone shuts off, and 5 mins later comes on again...I can't access bootloader.
What did I do?
Thanks:
Update : got bootloader back but it says TAMPERED and UNLOCKED...it just said unlocked before. All I can access is TWRP; and it isn't recognizing the storage

MattyMo1976 said:
Finished the exploit: when into recovery and now all it does is come to the white HTC screen,and in red small print it says the following:
this build is for developmental purposes only
do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's permission.
Failure to comply may lead to legal action.
then the phone shuts off, and 5 mins later comes on again...I can't access bootloader.
What did I do?
Thanks:
Update : got bootloader back but it says TAMPERED and UNLOCKED...it just said unlocked before. All I can access is TWRP; and it isn't recognizing the storage
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Everything is normal.. u must of flashed a Rom...if u did u need to flash the boot IMG seperatly

omario8484 said:
Everything is normal.. u must of flashed a Rom...if u did u need to flash the boot IMG seperatly
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I did the boot IMG with fast boot,it was stored where adb and all that other stuff is. Went into bootloader, had the zips on my storage on phone. Went into recovery, did factory reset...and now this where I'm at; it can't access storage; like nothing is there...except twrp.

Plug your phone into your computer anad from twrp select mounts and storage and select mount put your HTC one xl Rom on your phone. Flash your boot IMG and Rom. Someone correct me.if I'm wrong. I have not done this just quoting the 100 other posts.
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Mount phone in twrp, and download a Rom on your computer. Make sure it's for onexl. Extract the Rom, move boot.img to where you have adb and fastboot. Fire up command promt, fastboot flash boot boot.img is the command. Rezip the Rom, transfer to sd card. Flash in twrp.
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InflatedTitan said:
Mount phone in twrp, and download a Rom on your computer. Make sure it's for onexl. Extract the Rom, move boot.img to where you have adb and fastboot. Fire up command promt, fastboot flash boot boot.img is the command. Rezip the Rom, transfer to sd card. Flash in twrp.
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Do you want to put the boot.img back in the folder before rezipping it? I tried with the boot.img in but the ROM gets stuck in it's boot animation so I tried it leaving it out, but then I can't flash the ROM at all.

Leave the zip the way it is. Take boot.img out of it (but dont delete it from the zip)
Flash boot.img, then fire up TWRP and install the zip file.
First boot usually takes 5-10 minutes.

Correct. When you rezip the Rom, EXCLUDE the boot.img
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InflatedTitan said:
Mount phone in twrp, and download a Rom on your computer. Make sure it's for onexl. Extract the Rom, move boot.img to where you have adb and fastboot. Fire up command promt, fastboot flash boot boot.img is the command. Rezip the Rom, transfer to sd card. Flash in twrp.
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Got it now, thanks!

Glad to hear you got it bro. Next time it should be a breeze
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InflatedTitan said:
Glad to hear you got it bro. Next time it should be a breeze
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If you wondering why I'm thanking regular members when it does not apply to me, is because you guys deserve it for all the patience an help you give to the newbs, and they won't be bothered in most threads.
WR
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WarRaven said:
If you wondering why I'm thanking regular members when it does not apply to me, is because you guys deserve it for all the patience an help you give to the newbs, and they won't be bothered in most threads.
WR
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well sir you're a gentleman and you certainly deserve a thank for this, unfortunately I'm already out for the day...LOL
maybe someone else can take care of this for me ?

[Q] I've made a huge mistake, is my HOX still salvageable?

Hello,
I just want to say that please don't say "you should have read instructions more carefully...etc" its too late for that. I'm just trying to see if its possible to get my HOX working again so its not a brick. So please, if you can help me, I will gladly donate to you.
I have a HTC ONE XL (AT&T). I saw a thread today on XDA saying 2.2 was able to be rooted, so I decide to root my HOX. It took a lot of courage, but I was able to root it and unlock the bootloader.
Everything was going great, I decided to flash CM10, the newest one: cm-10-20121025-EXPERIMENTAL-evita.zip. along with gapps-jb-20121011-signed.
First mistake: I did not backup
Recovery is TWRP v2.3.1.0
I wiped cache, dalvik cache, and system, then flashed CM10
Then i flashed GAPPS
I thought I had everything in the bag, rebooted it and let it do its thing. People say the first boot took long time (~5 mins) I gave it 10 mins. Nothing, its stuck on the boot loop.
Then I retried this 2 other times, same thing.
I panicked and accidentally hit factory reset, and managed to clear everything, both of the flashable files (CM10 and GAPPS) from my HOX, now all i can do is go into TWRP recovery. If i try to reboot into bootloader system or recovery it says "NO OS installed! Are you sure you wish to reboot?"
So please, can anyone help me, this was a very costly mistake, but I'm trying to fix it.
CLIFFS:
-Made mistake of not backing up
-Now only boots to TWRP, no flashable files.

First of all bro, you did everything right in the first place except flash the boot.img seperate using fastboot. That's why you bootlooped bc you had no kernel.
Second, don't worry lol. plug in phone to your computer and enter twrp, choose "mount". Get on your computer and download Rom of choice. Once downloaded, extract Rom and seperate the boot.img. rezip Rom. Transfer Rom onto phone.
fastboot boot.img, then flash the Rom through twrp. Then your golden
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InflatedTitan said:
First of all bro, you did everything right in the first place except flash the boot.img seperate using fastboot. That's why you bootlooped bc you had no kernel.
Second, don't worry lol. plug in phone to your computer and enter twrp, choose "mount". Get on your computer and download Rom of choice. Once downloaded, extract Rom and seperate the boot.img. rezip Rom. Transfer Rom onto phone.
fastboot boot.img, then flash the Rom through twrp. Then your golden
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Hi inflatedtitan,
Thanks for replying, you are a lifesaver, i almost bought another phone... because i thought i was done for.
However, im not sure what you mean exactly as i have not done this flashing before. so i downloaded the rom cm10.
1. so i unizip the rom on my computer
2. copy rom onto phone
3. flash??
thanks please clarify thanks again.
ur a lifesaver.
EDIT: when i hit mount, there are 4 boxes, what do i check (i cant select SD card)? and when i hit mount, it shows up on my computer but asks me to format disk. should i do it?!

As you already factory reseted and lost everything, you should format as the damage is already done lol, it'll get your sdcard back right. But when you extract cm10 on your computer you'll see the boot.img in the folder. Move it to where you have adb and fastboot. THEN rezip Rom and transfer to your phone.
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Do you have fastboot and adb? If so, the boot.img goes here. Fire up command prompt, type this---> fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then proceed to flash the Rom via twrp
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InflatedTitan said:
As you already factory reseted and lost everything, you should format as the damage is already done lol, it'll get your sdcard back right. But when you extract cm10 on your computer you'll see the boot.img in the folder. Move it to where you have adb and fastboot. THEN rezip Rom and transfer to your phone.
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Do you have fastboot and adb? If so, the boot.img goes here. Fire up command prompt, type this---> fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then proceed to flash the Rom via twrp
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I took a screenshot
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so i copy the boot to the folder with adb and fastboot? and copy cm-10-2012... to my HOX (unchanged)?

Yes exactly, then run fastboot flash boot boot.img
After that is done, open TWRP and run the zip file

Rom will have excluded boot.img . Try it out and see what happens as you recapped. I'm not so sure as your running fastboot through the xfactor program.. but try it out, worst case is you bootloop like last time. If that happens again, you know to download android SDK tools, adb and fastboot and reinstall HTC drivers and start over
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They are many simple tutorials for rooting but do not know why you guys having hard time. Ok here is
1) You got Android SDK from google + Platform-tools + Google USB Driver -
2) Only for windows - Download htc sync ( It will install necessary htc drivers) - Link
3) Just to check if htc drivers installed properly , open "C:\android-sdk\platform-tools" ( Or folder where adb and fastboot exists) then "Press shift + right click and select "Open command window here" ( open command prompt and cd "folder where adb and fastboot exists).
4) In command window type " adb devices" and see output - If you get output then htc drivers installed properly.
You can skip step 3 and step 4 - These steps are only for verification
5) Goto [ROOT] HTC One X AT&T 2.20 Firmware - X-Factor root exploit and follow the instructions there.
6) Once you successfully root your device using above exploit then goto - [How To] Flash Custom recovery and ROMS after 2.20 root complete the steps to flash custom recovery and if you want to flash ROMS
7) To unlock BOOT LOADER use this link - [INDEX] AT&T/ROGERS One X Resources Compilation Roll-Up , follow the instructions under " BOOTLOADER UNLOCK, SUPER CID, AND S-OFF"
You can also goto this link - [ROOT][2.20] One XL Bootloader unlock & Root guide By XsMagical - Very nice tutorial, if you find above links difficult to follow
Note* : During exploit or flashing recovery they talk about using fastboot commands, In order to execute them you need goto C:\android-sdk\platform-tools" ( Or folder where adb and fastboot exists) then "Press shift + right click and select "Open command window here" ( open command prompt and cd "folder where adb and fastboot exists) and then execute the commands ..
Advice - Do not flash any roms apart from xda
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uhh guys so i did the whole fastboot thing, everything looked great. but when i try to go back to recovery, im stuck at the htc quietly brilliant
"this build is for development purpose only
do not distribute..." screen. I cant get back to recovery!?
Sorry for being such a noob, i really appreciate your guyses help.

Try it a couple times, if that doesn't work reflash recovery.

donkeybat64 said:
uhh guys so i did the whole fastboot thing, everything looked great. but when i try to go back to recovery, im stuck at the htc quietly brilliant
"this build is for development purpose only
do not distribute..." screen. I cant get back to recovery!?
Sorry for being such a noob, i really appreciate your guyses help.
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How long did you stay on that screen? Did you see the cyanogenmod boot animation at all?
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Have you tried holding power and volume down? When phone flashes and goes off, release power button and keep holding volume down till you get to hboot. White screen that says fastboot, recovery, facto reset, etc
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Any progress bro?
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you don't delete boot.img from the rom, leave the original zip untouched. just make sure you flash boot.img in fastboot though. whenever i flash something in fastboot i like to run "fastboot erase cache".
NEVER factory reset in bootloader, it will mess up your sdcard.
you should rewipe and reflash everything in twrp. also verify the md5 checksums of cm10 and gapps both the md5 sums are listed at their download locations.

Fixed an gone like a teenager an his car?
WR
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WarRaven said:
Fixed an gone like a teenager an his car?
WR
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yep that's another thing i've asked all the querying noobs to do, changing the op to [SOLVED] when it is but to no avail :crying:

sry guys it took very long, i followed all your instructions and finally fixed it last night. I went straight to sleep because of work. Thanks again for your help, sorry for late restponse:
my solution: I followed INFLATEDTITAN's instructions. double click the cm10 rom, then take out the boot.img, copy that to where your fastboot files are, SHIFT right click, select CMD (or open cmd and use cd to change directory to folder), then type what he said w/ fastboot, make sure your connected. Then i flashed the cm10 rom, the gapps, reboot, took a couple tries.
Anyways, it works great, so smooth.... on wifi.
I have stragiht talk, and I've been getting really crappy speeds for data, from 5Mbps to 0.16.... down, interestingly, upload has not changed ~1.2 mbps. does anyone have any insight? Why DL is so slow but UL is still the same?

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yep that's another thing i've asked all the querying noobs to do, changing the op to [SOLVED] when it is but to no avail :crying:
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Can you tell me how to edit my post? i can only edit the content, not the title.
Also I have a question on radios. From this thread: (click "this")
I have the latest cm10 nightly build, as I said in my previous post, I am on straight talk. While the radio is showing HSPA+, I'm getting edge speeds (0.16mbps) but good upload speed ~1.2mbps.
Can I use the AT&T 2.2 radio from this list? (near the bottom)
Radios for Latest CM10 versions (with radio in /system/etc/firmware)
I just rooted my phone from 2.2, and want to make sure I'm using the right one.
Thanks.

Sorry bro, can't flash radios and RILs being you have the newer hboot
Sounds like you're into aosp roms. But usually the newer sense Roms are just as amazing and usually are updated with the newer radio. However I'm using old hboot, so I can't confirm that if you flash a Rom, the included radio will also automatically flash. Can anyone reading help with the correct answer?
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InflatedTitan said:
Sorry bro, can't flash radios and RILs being you have the newer hboot
Sounds like you're into aosp roms. But usually the newer sense Roms are just as amazing and usually are updated with the newer radio. However I'm using old hboot, so I can't confirm that if you flash a Rom, the included radio will also automatically flash. Can anyone reading help with the correct answer?
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Thanks, so the only thing i can do at this point is to flash a original HTC ICS rom (basically where i started before root)?

Well like I say, I'm not even sure it'll install the new radio lol. So I'd sit tight till someone replies with the correct advice.
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I'm in hpsa and that's about what I get too. I'll get a few tests that'll nail about 6 on download speed, sometimes I can't even get 1 lol. I wouldnt worry too much unless it gets super sluggish when you have full service
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