[Q] I think I'm hard bricked. I'd love some help. - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

Tried installing a ROM, and being the noob that I am it was an International Rom. I used TeamWin. Can't post outside links because I'm new. The rom was IceColdJelly AOKP ROM from onexroot.com
I realize I was stupid. I just want out of this situation and I'll be really careful for now on. Is my HOX a lost cause? I bought it about 2 weeks ago (Really unlucky with the whole price drop...). And now, I've done this.
I get it, I've learned my lesson. XDA please help me out. How can I fix this brick? (If it is a brick? I'm assuming.)

Epsilon707 said:
Tried installing a ROM, and being the noob that I am it was an International Rom. I used TeamWin. Can't post outside links because I'm new. The rom was IceColdJelly AOKP ROM from onexroot.com
I realize I was stupid. I just want out of this situation and I'll be really careful for now on. Is my HOX a lost cause? I bought it about 2 weeks ago (Really unlucky with the whole price drop...). And now, I've done this.
I get it, I've learned my lesson. XDA please help me out. How can I fix this brick? (If it is a brick? I'm assuming.)
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Yes, it's a brick, but there is a fix if you have access to a Linux computer and know what you're doing.
beaups said:
when the device is bricked (qhusb mode), after pushing and holding power for ~10 seconds - in linux shortly thereafter all of the partitions will enumerate and expose themselves to linux for about 5 seconds (you'll see sdX1, sdX3, sdX8, about 30 partitions alltogether). During that quick 5 seconds you can DD whatever you feel like back to those partitions.
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This is how I've recovered bricks. Corrupt hboot --> Brick device. DD back correct hboot while in this mode --> unbricked
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It successfully flashed? Than yes follow his directions only way out if it successfully flashed and your device is unresponsive

omario8484 said:
It successfully flashed? Than yes follow his directions only way out if it successfully flashed and your device is unresponsive
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Good point, if you were on stock 2.20 before, it's not bricked, you just need to get back into recovery and flash something else.

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iElvis said:
Good point, if you were on stock 2.20 before, it's not bricked, you just need to get back into recovery and flash something else.
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It was stock 2.20. I bought the phone a week or two ago. HBOOT 1.14. But the phone still won't turn on?

Epsilon707 said:
It was stock 2.20. I bought the phone a week or two ago. HBOOT 1.14. But the phone still won't turn on?
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Can your computer see it? Was it fully charged before?
Try plugging into the charger for a while. The battery in this phone has a weird tendency to suddenly lose all its charge.

iElvis said:
Can your computer see it? Was it fully charged before?
Try plugging into the charger for a while. The battery in this phone has a weird tendency to suddenly lose all its charge.
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Computer cannot see it. Atleast constantly. My computer makes a noise like a drive was plugged in, then shortly after an error-like similar sound.
I'll try charging it for a few hours. Thanks!

Epsilon707 said:
Computer cannot see it. Atleast constantly. My computer makes a noise like a drive was plugged in, then shortly after an error-like similar sound.
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That's not good. What does it look in explorer like when it shows up? Do you see QHSUSB anywhere?

The new hboots won't allow flashing of an incompatible Rom. Make sure you charge it for a while hold power button and volume down for a few seconds and see if capacitive buttons flash. If so, release power button but continue to hold volume down and see what happens
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Word of advice bro, don't flash anything what so ever from anywhere except xda. You'll be asking for trouble
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iElvis said:
That's not good. What does it look in explorer like when it shows up? Do you see QHSUSB anywhere?
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Nope. I'm running Windows by the way. I don't have access to a Linux computer right now, but I will later.

Epsilon707 said:
Nope. I'm running Windows by the way. I don't have access to a Linux computer right now, but I will later.
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Okay, try what InflatedTitan suggested and see what happens.

InflatedTitan said:
The new hboots won't allow flashing of an incompatible Rom. Make sure you charge it for a while hold power button and volume down for a few seconds and see if capacitive buttons flash. If so, release power button but continue to hold volume down and see what happens
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Word of advice bro, don't flash anything what so ever from anywhere except xda. You'll be asking for trouble
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Zero response. I'll keep trying.

Epsilon707 said:
Zero response. I'll keep trying.
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Let it charge for a few hours and try again.

Still no avail. Any other ideas?

I could really use some help. Anyone have an idea or a suggestion on what to do? I also don't suppose this is covered under my warranty

Okay, a couple of questions:
-Are you certain you were on 2.20? I ask because there have been cases of people buying One Xs recently and getting phones on 1.85.
-The phone is completely unresponsive despite being plugged into an outlet (not your computer) for a couple of hours?

iElvis said:
Okay, a couple of questions:
-Are you certain you were on 2.20? I ask because there have been cases of people buying One Xs recently and getting phones on 1.85.
-The phone is completely unresponsive despite being plugged into an outlet (not your computer) for a couple of hours?
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Yes, I am certain. I remember checking it in the About Phone section of settings.
Completely unresponsive, but I'll keep trying.

Epsilon707 said:
Yes, I am certain. I remember checking it in the About Phone section of settings.
Completely unresponsive, but I'll keep trying.
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Okay, one last thing. Open up Device Manager in Windows and expand the whole directory tree. Check "DVD/CD-ROM devices" in particular. Plug your phone in and see what happens.
If nothing happens at all, try leaving it plugged in overnight and see if anything is different. If it's still dead, it's bricked, whatever you did with it. Since it's new, you should be able to return it and get a new one.

Idk what to say if you were on 2.20 it should of failed the Rom flash...but it successfully flashed ?

omario8484 said:
Idk what to say if you were on 2.20 it should of failed the Rom flash...but it successfully flashed ?
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I'm f'ing baffled myself mate.

Related

Bricked Phone after flashing Steve0007's img

I was one of the unlucky testers before Steve0007 closed the thread. Did anyone figure out how to save our Sensation after the bad flash? My phone does not light up or respond to any button presses but when plugged into the computer it is recognized as an "unrecognized device."
I guess this is the risk we run being early testers. Hopefully someone figures it out otherwise I've got myself very expensive paper weight.
I assume no two button rescue? And this should be in q/a or general
Can you get to the bootloader?
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium
what did he brick people's phones with what was it supposed to be?
Wrong section. And that happened to me when i got an hd2 and i bricked it. Luckily it was 2 days after i bought it so tmobile gave me another because they thought something was wrong with it. But next time please post in the right section. Thanks.
nba1341 said:
what did he brick people's phones with what was it supposed to be?
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Its probably only a soft brick
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Thank god I didn't flash it, I just finished downloading it when people started reporting issues.
Anyway, I'm sure he didn't mean for it to happen. If you have a spare battery, have you tried putting that one in?
These things are usually flash at your own risk.
I would never flash a ruu, unless it's official it could cause problems.
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Also, if it doesnt work and if you have tmo. Tell them bs and they will get you one. Just some advice and please dont flame me.
tried spare battery. same result. And i'm sure he didn't do it maliciously I've flashed many of his things before with no problem. Just hoping to get some help. Phone doesn't respond. Can't get to bootloader. Only sign of life is windows recognizing that i plugged something into the usb slot.
Yes as I said, this happened to me exactly when i had a tmo HD2 and flashed a european ruu and it was dead. I tried everything. You will have better luck to talk to your insurance company.
Have you got ADB installed on your pc? If not start downloading and installing it. I will find some links, in just a sec.
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New to ADB CLICK HER
More to set up path CLICK HERE
http://www.mediafire.com/?rrwi4f258lie1r7
Extract to system 32 or sysWOW64 (64bit)
Try 3 finger salute (VOL UP,VOL DOWN + POWER) with your phone plugged into pc and pc volume up see if it makes a sound like a device has connected.
Whats was this RUU anyway?
if you just need ADB you dont need all of the stuff above or to set up a path if its extracted to those folders
duychau said:
tried spare battery. same result. And i'm sure he didn't do it maliciously I've flashed many of his things before with no problem. Just hoping to get some help. Phone doesn't respond. Can't get to bootloader. Only sign of life is windows recognizing that i plugged something into the usb slot.
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This is excatly what happened to me.Computer wont see the phone though,so no adb fix can be applied.Mnn i'm so pissed as i dont have insurance.
usually blagging HTC will do the trick for a repair,dont mention XDA, ROOT, ICS or basically anything except your phone said update was available and the battery died
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roflcopter is 10chars
duychau said:
tried spare battery. same result. And i'm sure he didn't do it maliciously I've flashed many of his things before with no problem. Just hoping to get some help. Phone doesn't respond. Can't get to bootloader. Only sign of life is windows recognizing that i plugged something into the usb slot.
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What does it recognize it as?
unrecognized usb device
Ok guys, it looks like the firmware that I posted to another thread from 3.06 bricked few devices. I have flashed it and it worked fine, so i tried again with the package i posted and indeed it is corrupted as it bricked also mine
My device does not respond, so I would think it is dead
I feel sorry for those who have bricked also theirs based on the package i posted.
I am closing my Rom thread and starting now my Rom developments will be for my own use. I will not publish anymore my work.
Again I feel sorry for those who have lost their devices.
Steve
ok so now his rom thread is closed. Why not keep it open and work together to help those with bricked devices attempt to restore them to a working state?
That way you keep your reputation rather than running away after bricking devices?
Arrrggghhhh,This could not have come at a worse time
nba1341 said:
ok so now his rom thread is closed. Why not keep it open and work together to help those with bricked devices attempt to restore them to a working state?
That way you keep your reputation rather than running away after bricking devices?
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Because as far as I know no way to get them back

Is this fixable?

First off, I am a veteran of flashing and have a decent amount of experience fixing up bricked phones, but this time nothing is working.
I flashed a Jellybean rom to my one x this morning, and now nothing is working. Literally. I can't access bootloader, in fact, I can't even get the screen to turn on. I have tried holding down the power button, as well as entering recovery etc... But nothing is working. Am I missing something simple or am I really in trouble?
Doesn't sound good. Any notification light when you plug the wall charger in?
What were the exact steps you've done to flash? You have unlocked bootloader, installed a custom recovery, then flashed a ROM? Which ROM specifically? Hopefully you didn't flash a ROM ment for the international (Tegra) version to a Snapdragon (AT&T, Roger, etc.) version phone.
At what point did the ROM flash fail? any error messages from recovery?
Did you flash an international one X ROM? Just wondering to get that scenario out of the way.
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redpoint73 said:
Doesn't sound good. Any notification light when you plug the wall charger in?
What were the exact steps you've done to flash? You have unlocked bootloader, installed a custom recovery, then flashed a ROM? Which ROM specifically? Hopefully you didn't flash a ROM ment for the international (Tegra) version to a Snapdragon (AT&T, Roger, etc.) version phone.
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The steps were in the same order, the rom is this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1763240. Looking at it, I think there is a good chance that is the problem. Anything I could do to fix it?
teswolf96 said:
The steps were in the same order, the rom is this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1763240. Looking at it, I think there is a good chance that is the problem. Anything I could do to fix it?
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It is 100% the problem. If the phone is not recognized when plugging into your PC, I think you're hosed (but maybe others may know more and correct me on this). If it is recognized, get the RUU for your phone and run it.
I ask again, any notification (charging light) come on when you plug the wall charger in?
For the AT&T (Snapdragon) version of the One X, only flash things in this specific forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1541
Want to see everything in an organized compilation, go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671237
redpoint73 said:
It is 100% the problem. If the phone is not recognized by fastboot, I think you're hosed. Any notification (charging light) come on when you plug the wall charger in?
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Nope - Should I just take it back to AT&T and see if I can get a replacement?
teswolf96 said:
Nope - Should I just take it back to AT&T and see if I can get a replacement?
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Warranty replacements are for defects by HTC, not for damage that you caused.
If you are asking if you can lie about what happened, and get a replacement, than I'm not going to dignify that question with a response.
Well, I bricked my phone once and went straight to LG, they fixed it for me? Maybe HTC might fix it for you?
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It's likely your phone is screwed. Strange though that it just died
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Connect the phone to your computer, and see if adb can see it. Of it can't, and the phone won't even show any lights when connected to the charger, I think you're screwed.
Also, leave it on the charger for several hours, and see if there is any change. There is a possibility if just got stuck in a bootloop on on the splash screen, and you killed the battery that way. But you haven't provided enough information for us to really know (what step it stalled on, what was on the screen, etc.).

[URGENT] Please help!

So my current situation is that I am romless, though I can boot into recovery(wipe and everything fine) but my external is also wiped.
My device seems to have a problem where whenever I mount it, windows cannot transfer new .zip roms as it always hangs at the 5% mark and never moves after that(reads an error after an hours or so). I've tried the nocturnal fix but that did not help.
I have tried relocking the bootloader but thr rogers RUU I've used here http://forums.team-nocturnal.com/showthread.php/1005-RUU-One-X-XL-LTE-RUU-s just hangs on sending...
Do you have the appropiate drivers?
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And what recovery are you on
Yes, I have all the appropriate drivers. The phone mount used to work but I must have not safely removed it and now it's like this :s
TWRP 2.4.1.0
Hmm. Think this I'd a job for inflated titan but try reformating your sd
Thanks, I'll try trying to factory reset the internal again.
a box of kittens said:
Hmm. Think this I'd a job for inflated titan but try reformating your sd
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That's what I would do... Restart computer, format your SD card... Kind of sounds like you don't have the appropriate storage, so a SD wipe might help.. I'd hate to give you advice that will erase everything and potentially not correct the problem, but its a step you have to try to get a working phone.. Did you do any resets in bootloader? (White screen with skatin droids)
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InflatedTitan said:
That's what I would do... Restart computer, format your SD card... Kind of sounds like you don't have the appropriate storage, so a SD wipe might help.. I'd hate to give you advice that will erase everything and potentially not correct the problem, but its a step you have to try to get a working phone.. Did you do any resets in bootloader? (White screen with skatin droids)
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Thanks for pitching in Titan, I did as instructed but this blasted thing still does not want to transfer files to the phone, always getting a stuck progress bar. Sigh* At this point in time I would not mind to wipe the whole phone if I had to, however I could not get RUU to work so maybe I'll just try it on a different pc and see if that works out.
And no, I cannot get to the classic bootloader menu, only the htc one. I used the nocturnal method to try and re-format my external but that doesnt seem to be working.
EDIT: Well a miracle occurred and I was able to get at least one .zip on my internal(but really all I did was change the usb port to the built in mobo one). Thanking those who pitched in.
Can't get to bootloader? I mean no disrespect man but your not doing it right... If your phone at least power cycles, you can get to bootloader. Did you press power+volume down till the lights blink and shuts off, hold for a second and release power button while keeping down the volume button?
Is the phone locked or unlocked?
EDIT: glad to see you have it worked out, I always find success with the main USB ports, I.e the back if the computer etc.
Any questions feel free to ask away, I don't mind trying to help one bit
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InflatedTitan said:
Can't get to bootloader? I mean no disrespect man but your not doing it right... If your phone at least power cycles, you can get to bootloader. Did you press power+volume down till the lights blink and shuts off, hold for a second and release power button while keeping down the volume button?
Is the phone locked or unlocked?
EDIT: glad to see you have it worked out, I always find success with the main USB ports, I.e the back if the computer etc.
Any questions feel free to ask away, I don't mind trying to help one bit
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Oh whoops, misunderstood the question before I could get into bootloader of course!
Well since you offered, I flashed this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2130320 but when I boot into it, my touchscreen is unresponsive. Any incidents of this?
Since your phone was probably on 4.11 before the update and you can only flash sense 4+ roms until kernel source comes out
a box of kittens said:
Since your phone was probably on 4.11 before the update and you can only flash sense 4+ roms until kernel source comes out
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Ah that's lame. Any foresight into that? Does HTC have to release that themselves?
protomanez said:
Ah that's lame. Any foresight into that? Does HTC have to release that themselves?
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It should be released soon
Ah, kind of leaves me sour in the mouth but I can wait to get rid of sense entirely. Thanks again you guys.

[Q] Hard Bricked? Don't see how....

Ladies and Gents,
I made sure I chose the correct RUU based on my CID (CWS__001)
I relocked my phone and attempted to install "RUU_EVITA_UL_JB_45_S_Cingular_US_3.18.502.6_Radio_ 0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34_release_signed.exe". After the RUU finished my phone seems to be hard bricked.
Won't Boot.
No power lights.
I knew this could happen when flashing an international version. AFTER getting owned I also found this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181929. Which was blatantly in the beginning of the forum. Has anyone found a fix for this issue, or is my only option JTAG repair?
Thanks,
Ryan
ryan9316 said:
Ladies and Gents,
I made sure I chose the correct RUU based on my CID (CWS__001)
I relocked my phone and attempted to install "RUU_EVITA_UL_JB_45_S_Cingular_US_3.18.502.6_Radio_ 0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34_release_signed.exe". After the RUU finished my phone seems to be hard bricked.
Won't Boot.
No power lights.
I knew this could happen when flashing an international version. AFTER getting owned I also found this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181929. Which was blatantly in the beginning of the forum. Has anyone found a fix for this issue, or is my only option JTAG repair?
Thanks,
Ryan
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You could take your phone back and tell them it won't boot etc.
If you can't get it to boot neither can they, so no-one will know it's been unlocked/rooted.
Some people will say this is fraudulent, but hey, if you can live with yourself who cares what anyone else thinks?
Pft I returned mine to Telus when the same thing happened to me. The way I see it, it was HTC's RUU that bricked my phone, not me. Like you, I did not have supercid and was S-ON.
You could try the unbrick Evita thread. If you make it past step 3 you can save your phone.
You'll need to boot to Linux.
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Pft I returned mine to Telus when the same thing happened to me. The way I see it, it was HTC's RUU that bricked my phone, not me. Like you, I did not have supercid and was S-ON.
You could try the unbrick Evita thread. If you make it past step 3 you can save your phone.
You'll need to boot to Linux.
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I saw this and will give it a try, thank you for the advice!
ryan9316 said:
I saw this and will give it a try, thank you for the advice!
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I bricked my phone trying to install elementalx and phone wouldn't boot at all and no lights. sent it in for jtag and they told me emmc controller was unresponsive and sent it back to me. looks like I may have to trash the phone... or make a few bucks on ebay.
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I bricked my phone trying to install elementalx and phone wouldn't boot at all and no lights. sent it in for jtag and they told me emmc controller was unresponsive and sent it back to me. looks like I may have to trash the phone... or make a few bucks on ebay.
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Did they refund you? I was going to send it into mobiletechvideos for JTAG. I don't see the phones selling for more than 100$ on ebay.
ryan9316 said:
Did they refund you? I was going to send it into mobiletechvideos for JTAG. I don't see the phones selling for more than 100$ on ebay.
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If the emmc controller isn't responding, it's worth even less than that.
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ryan9316 said:
Did they refund you? I was going to send it into mobiletechvideos for JTAG. I don't see the phones selling for more than 100$ on ebay.
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they did refund. minus the cost of shipping and something else, however. it was worth a try though... All I know though is I will never touch an elemental kernel again... not worth it that's for sure...
mkalbarc said:
they did refund. minus the cost of shipping and something else, however. it was worth a try though... All I know though is I will never touch an elemental kernel again... not worth it that's for sure...
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Just curious about your situation. Did the kernel flash successfully and then just not boot? What ROM were you flashing it over? Tons of people, myself included, have flashed that kernel without issue so I'm interested in what exactly happened.
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Just curious about your situation. Did the kernel flash successfully and then just not boot? What ROM were you flashing it over? Tons of people, myself included, have flashed that kernel without issue so I'm interested in what exactly happened.
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Sure, I too have used their kernels and have never had an issue until this time. So I started to install the kernel and it froze at I believe 60%? Then it sat... It said the flash could take awhile so to just wait so I did... For 2 hours. I knew something wasn't right because no elemental flash has taken my phone longer than a few minutes before this one so without thinking i'd hurt anything I held the buttons to hard power off the phone. After it shut off it's been completely dead since. No charge lights, no sign of any life at all other then the QHSUSB_DLOAD under device manager when plugged into my PC. the rom that I had flashed was the latest cleanrom. super bummed but i'll get over it. the worst part about this was I had pics of my kids that I had not backed up that are now lost.
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Sure, I too have used their kernels and have never had an issue until this time. So I started to install the kernel and it froze at I believe 60%? Then it sat... It said the flash could take awhile so to just wait so I did... For 2 hours. I knew something wasn't right because no elemental flash has taken my phone longer than a few minutes before this one so without thinking i'd hurt anything I held the buttons to hard power off the phone. After it shut off it's been completely dead since. No charge lights, no sign of any life at all other then the QHSUSB_DLOAD under device manager when plugged into my PC. super bummed but i'll get over it. the worst part about this was I had pics of my kids that I had not backed up that are now lost.
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That does suck about the pictures. That would upset me more than the phone as well. I went and looked at the thread after I saw your post and saw a couple of other bricks aside from yours in the last couple of hundred posts. Very unfortunate that flashing a kernel bricked it. I try to stay away from anything that uses the Aroma Installer unless there are no other options, not saying that was the problem, but I've had numerous issues with it previously. After seeing multiple bricks from a basic kernel flash I'm going to definitely be more cautious about what I flash from now on. I'd be totally screwed if I bricked this phone. Anyway, hope you end up with something better out of this, like the HTC One.
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That does suck about the pictures. That would upset me more than the phone as well. I went and looked at the thread after I saw your post and saw a couple of other bricks aside from yours in the last couple of hundred posts. Very unfortunate that flashing a kernel bricked it. I try to stay away from anything that uses the Aroma Installer unless there are no other options, not saying that was the problem, but I've had numerous issues with it previously. After seeing multiple bricks from a basic kernel flash I'm going to definitely be more cautious about what I flash from now on. I'd be totally screwed if I bricked this phone. Anyway, hope you end up with something better out of this, like the HTC One.
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Funny thing about the One... I was thinking about getting it but after this issue I will never look at another phone that doesn't have a removable sd card...
I think a key thing to note here is that you are flashing software that has been altered by someone you don't know and you can never be sure that things will work out. There's huge risks associated with rooting/unlocking your phone. If there wasn't HTC would warrant your phone regardless of what you do.
If you don't have an answer to the question "What will I do when I brick my phone?" don't root. Whenever modding anything, consoles, phones, set top boxes, I always assume that I will render it unusable. If that doesn't sit well with me, I don't modify it. That should be the general rule of thumb to follow.
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3 words: Dropbox Camera Upload.
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I think a key thing to note here is that you are flashing software that has been altered by someone you don't know and you can never be sure that things will work out. There's huge risks associated with rooting/unlocking your phone. If there wasn't HTC would warrant your phone regardless of what you do.
If you don't have an answer to the question "What will I do when I brick my phone?" don't root. Whenever modding anything, consoles, phones, set top boxes, I always assume that I will render it unusable. If that doesn't sit well with me, I don't modify it. That should be the general rule of thumb to follow.
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Very well said... I always get a little nervous when screwing with a new $500+ device.
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iElvis said:
3 words: Dropbox Camera Upload.
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Thank you for the advice! I will remember that with my next phone.
I just use g+ to instantly upload my photos. Unlimited space is hard to argue with
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phone not able to boot
guys please help me out I flashed stock root JB ROM after that my device wont boot just white screen with HTC logo. The phone boots into recovery but I wiped the sd card SD card mount error is being returned.
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anuj.sherawat said:
guys please help me out I flashed stock root JB ROM after that my device wont boot just white screen with HTC logo. The phone boots into recovery but I wiped the sd card SD card mount error is being returned.
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Install twrp 2.3.3.1 and reformat sd card with a pc. Move Rom to sd and reflash. And also what hboot? I know you said s-off bit did you fastboot the boot.img and see is that helped?
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31ken31 said:
Install twrp 2.3.3.1 and reformat sd card with a pc. Move Rom to sd and reflash. And also what hboot? I know you said s-off bit did you fastboot the boot.img and see is that helped?
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thanks first of all I was on CMW, formatted the drive as computer prompted, lost the data but was able to flash the ROM and fastboot the boot image to phone.
Now only one problem the phone restarts and then goes to boot loop everytime I have to fastboot the boot image file.
DO I need to change the recovery and is there any way to by pass the fastboot process? Sorry for noob question

[Q] HTC One X rooting interrupted and won't boot

I have tried rooting my HTC One X and I installed the wrong rom onto it after rooting it. I wasn't able to boot, but I could get to the fastboot screen by holding down the down button and the power button. I ran out of time to work on it, so I unplugged it before I had figured it out. Now I cannot get it to that screen, or even to show the charging indicator. Any ideas of how I can get it booted up again? Is there any other info you need to help me figure this out? I searched for a solution but I haven't been able to find one yet. Thanks in advance.
Firstly, do you have the HTC One X (Endeavoru) or the HTC One XL / at&t One X (Evita)?
Which ROM did you flash?
Do you know what your bootloader details were?
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timmaaa said:
Firstly, do you have the HTC One X (Endeavoru) or the HTC One XL / at&t One X (Evita)?
Which ROM did you flash?
Do you know what your bootloader details were?
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I have the AT&T One X Evita. I tried putting on CM Recovery. Also I did get it rooted and unlocked. I was installing the ROM and I flashed one that kept the OS from starting. It showed the loading screen but stuck on that. I could always get back to the HBOOT though. Now it isn't possible to get there. It may be from the battery dying but the battery isn't charging according to the light. There is no light at all when I plug it in.
Ok, you answered the first question but what about the other two? If you want help you need to answer the questions that are asked, with as much specific detail as possible. Answering that you "flashed a ROM that kept the OS from starting" doesn't answer the question. I can't help properly unless you give me the information I need.
In terms of the LED not showing that it's charging, it does happen sometimes. Plug the phone into a wall outlet and leave it connected for eight hours, then try to boot into the bootloader using the power + volume down button combination. Don't do anything else yet though until you've answered the questions and we've ascertained exactly what's going on with your phone.
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timmaaa said:
Ok, you answered the first question but what about the other two? If you want help you need to answer the questions that are asked, with as much specific detail as possible. Answering that you "flashed a ROM that kept the OS from starting" doesn't answer the question. I can't help properly unless you give me the information I need.
In terms of the LED not showing that it's charging, it does happen sometimes. Plug the phone into a wall outlet and leave it connected for eight hours, then try to boot into the bootloader using the power + volume down button combination. Don't do anything else yet though until you've answered the questions and we've ascertained exactly what's going on with your phone.
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I told you what details I knew. I started this a month or two ago, and since then I have misplace where I put the ROM images. So I honestly don't remember. I am trying to get the phone fixed up now, cause now I have time to fix it. From what I remember, I tried flashing an image using either adb or fastboot onto the recovery. From there I haven't been able to get it into recovery or to boot normally. I could only get to the HBOOT screen. I really can't remember which one I tried to flash on there. And I can't get many more details on the hboot screen.
It's very difficult to help in that case. Try charging for an extended period of time like I suggested before and see if it'll power on.
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timmaaa said:
It's very difficult to help in that case. Try charging for an extended period of time like I suggested before and see if it'll power on.
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I'll do that. I will also search through backups of my computer and see if I can find those files. I will post with any updates.
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SerenadeX said:
I have tried rooting my HTC One X and I installed the wrong rom onto it after rooting it. I wasn't able to boot, but I could get to the fastboot screen by holding down the down button and the power button. I ran out of time to work on it, so I unplugged it before I had figured it out. Now I cannot get it to that screen, or even to show the charging indicator. Any ideas of how I can get it booted up again? Is there any other info you need to help me figure this out? I searched for a solution but I haven't been able to find one yet. Thanks in advance.
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if you want to root your devices, i recommend you to use SRSroot, This app to make your devices rooted. you just click and tarrraaaaaa... your device is rooted... :laugh:
NB: you must have internet access to use this app
search "SRSroot" in google, click official web for SRSroot and download....
SRSroot only has a 50% success rate across all devices. Plus using that will only (maybe) allow root access on a stock ROM. It doesn't allow bootloader unlocking, or installing custom recovery, or installing custom ROMs. It's pretty much useless for this device because the whole unlocking process for the Evita is quite different. Maybe don't just post this in forums where you know absolutely nothing about the device.
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fresti said:
if you want to root your devices, i recommend you to use SRSroot, This app to make your devices rooted. you just click and tarrraaaaaa... your device is rooted... :laugh:
NB: you must have internet access to use this app
search "SRSroot" in google, click official web for SRSroot and download....
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Not relevant to this thread, as its not lack of root method that is the OPs problem. Also, if you don't have this device and don't know if the root method you suggest will work on it, you shouldn't be suggesting it.
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SerenadeX said:
I'll do that.
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If you weren't actively trying to do anything (flash any kind of file, etc.) when you unplugged the phone, I would have to think its just a matter of getting the phone charged again.
On the other hand, if it doesn't come back after charging overnight (use the wall charger, not charging via computer USB), and/or you get a message QHSUSB_DLOAD when connected to your computer, the phone is pretty much done and its either time to JTAG or a new phone.

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