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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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[Q] Flashing issues...

Ok, I've looked through the help sections, I've Googled my issue [a few times now], so now time to ask for help. [which may or may not be well recieved.]
I was running Viper 3.2.6 fine for about a month, I loved the rom, however I started getting repeated FCs and errors, so I decided to recover my nandroid backup. That didn't work very well, and my phone started to bootloop... I then decided to re-flash viper, re-install twrp [first 2.4.4.0, then when that version wouldn't work, 2.4.1.0] Now when flashing Viper [any JB version I've tried] all my phone does is hang on the HTC startup screen, then reboot back to TWRP. Not to mention that Viper is the only sense ROM that my phone will accept. I've tried fastboot flashing the boot.img, fastboot erasing cache, and running the Nocturnal SD fix to give myself a clean slate to work with.
I'm S-on and HBoot 2.14. Any help that can be provided would be appreciated.
I would post a logcat, but when I tried it would not output anything since the phone is not getting to the rom boot animation.

Try flashing the boot image separately. Or going s-off. I have had troubles with twrp higher than 2.4 before I went s-off.
I always stayed on 2.3
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May sound silly but are you typing the word "boot" in twice when flashing?
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Venomtester said:
Try flashing the boot image separately. Or going s-off. I have had troubles with twrp higher than 2.4 before I went s-off.
I always stayed on 2.3
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May sound silly but are you typing the word "boot" in twice when flashing?
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As far as flashing the boot image, I type fastboot flash boot boot.img.
And with the S-Off situation, I looked into that, but most of the tools for that seemingly require a working ROM, as usually they require you to have "usb debugging enabled" Like I stated previously, I've tried to solve the issue myself, to no avail thus far.
Also being hboot 2.14 twrp 2.3.x seems to not have touchscreen.

So you have no working Rom? Or can you flash viper again?
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Magickalhack said:
As far as flashing the boot image, I type fastboot flash boot boot.img.
And with the S-Off situation, I looked into that, but most of the tools for that seemingly require a working ROM, as usually they require you to have "usb debugging enabled" Like I stated previously, I've tried to solve the issue myself, to no avail thus far.
Also being hboot 2.14 twrp 2.3.x seems to not have touchscreen.
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Pretty sure you can s-off purely from boot loader.
2.3.x has working touchscreen for 2.14 and would solve all your issues. You'd have to wipe everything and reflash viper though
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Also check fastboot device too make sure adb is reading your phone.
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exad said:
Pretty sure you can s-off purely from boot loader.
2.3.x has working touchscreen for 2.14 and would solve all your issues. You'd have to wipe everything and reflash viper though
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Just tried 2.3.1 and no, the touchscreen didn't work, I was looking for a d/l for 2.3.3.x but haven't been able to find one. all of the ones I have found have been removed, or changed to 2.4.4.0
I would be quite greatful if you could point me in the direction of a 2.3.3.x twrp that works.
With S-Off, all the guides I've found by searching XDA [and google, which usually points me back to XDA] state that I need to start with USB debugging enabled, I even tried to start the process in fastboot... still no-go.
So you have no working Rom? Or can you flash viper again?
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None, Every time I try venom it looks like it flashes just fine, says it's successful, however I just end up looking at twrp again.
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Also check fastboot device too make sure adb is reading your phone.
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When I did fastboot devices I got:
HT26PW300712 fastboot
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19685555/openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.1-evita.img
MD5: D903047E6E871ACB8F99834C30EB8307
As for the USB debugging. It's just so you can use ADB to boot to fastboot. You can go into bootloader and go to fastboot and then skip step 3. -_-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071
Just trust me, Install TWRP 2.3.3.1, reflash viper (wipe everything first, cache, dalvik, system, factory reset) and your fine, or S-OFF and then do it or vice versa, whatever you want.
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I forgot to add, and I am so sorry, to do fastboot erase cache after flashing twrp 2.3.3.1, just in case.

exad said:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19685555/openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.1-evita.img
MD5: D903047E6E871ACB8F99834C30EB8307
As for the USB debugging. It's just so you can use ADB to boot to fastboot. You can go into bootloader and go to fastboot and then skip step 3. -_-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155071
Just trust me, Install TWRP 2.3.3.1, reflash viper (wipe everything first, cache, dalvik, system, factory reset) and your fine, or S-OFF and then do it or vice versa, whatever you want.
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I forgot to add, and I am so sorry, to do fastboot erase cache after flashing twrp 2.3.3.1, just in case.
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For s-off, if you don't use supercid, it doesn't seem to work, I did not use super cid, since I didn't need to to unlock my bootloader. I tried that method already.
Though, 2.3.3.1 is working; but viper XL 3.2.6 is still fighting with me... Now it's just hanging at the HTC boot screen with the annoying red script.

Magickalhack said:
For s-off, if you don't use supercid, it doesn't seem to work, I did not use super cid, since I didn't need to to unlock my bootloader. I tried that method already.
Though, 2.3.3.1 is working; but viper XL 3.2.6 is still fighting with me... Now it's just hanging at the HTC boot screen with the annoying red script.
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Did you fastboot erase cache then wipe everything and reinstall viper after installing twrp 2.3.3.1? If so:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2212737
Do this. Then soff then ruu with your bootloader kept unlocked then reinstall twrp 2.3.3.1 then flash viper
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exad said:
Did you fastboot erase cache then wipe everything and reinstall viper after installing twrp 2.3.3.1? If so:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2212737
Do this. Then soff then ruu with your bootloader kept unlocked then reinstall twrp 2.3.3.1 then flash viper
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Followed your instructions to the letter[I actually wiped everything twice before installing Viper.], same result, still hanging at the white HTC screen. I'm going to keep trying though. Thank you for the help thus far.

Magickalhack said:
Followed your instructions to the letter[I actually wiped everything twice before installing Viper.], same result, still hanging at the white HTC screen. I'm going to keep trying though. Thank you for the help thus far.
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I've seen this before. You will have to s-off and ruu so follow my last post.
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exad said:
I've seen this before. You will have to s-off and ruu so follow my last post.
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The only issue, is that it requires adb; since I cannot get a rom to load; when I adb, it just outputs device not found. I was able to find the file to hex edit using twrp file manager, and edited the right part, but it won't let me over-write the original file... any suggestions?

Magickalhack said:
The only issue, is that it requires adb; since I cannot get a rom to load; when I adb, it just outputs device not found. I was able to find the file to hex edit using twrp file manager, and edited the right part, but it won't let me over-write the original file... any suggestions?
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You should be able to adb from recovery no?
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exad said:
You should be able to adb from recovery no?
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I can adb sideload; but when I try to run the commands it just keeps saying "error: closed" I'll try again though.

Magickalhack said:
I can adb sideload; but when I try to run the commands it just keeps saying "error: closed" I'll try again though.
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Sorry I hadnt had to do this till now. OK here's what you need to do. In recovery advanced. Go to terminal command select root dir "/". And then do the "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p4" on your phone. This will pull the file. Mount your SD card in twrp and hex edit the mmcblk0p4 file on your sdcard like in my guide then save it in the same spot, make sure file size matches then go back to terminal command and select the root "/" directory again and type
"dd if=/sdcard/mmcblk0p4 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" from your phone. This will push the edited file back.
This is a bit more advanced but will work since you cannot adb. Adb just allows you to use the phones terminal remotely. Instead were actually using it on the phone.
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exad said:
Sorry I hadnt had to do this till now. OK here's what you need to do. In recovery advanced. Go to terminal command select root dir "/". And then do the "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0p4" on your phone. This will pull the file. Mount your SD card in twrp and hex edit the mmcblk0p4 file on your sdcard like in my guide then save it in the same spot, make sure file size matches then go back to terminal command and select the root "/" directory again and type
"dd if=/sdcard/mmcblk0p4 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" from your phone. This will push the edited file back.
This is a bit more advanced but will work since you cannot adb. Adb just allows you to use the phones terminal remotely. Instead were actually using it on the phone.
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actually, I had considered something similar, I just didn't know what directory I would have needed. I'll try this out and let you know.

Magickalhack said:
actually, I had considered something similar, I just didn't know what directory I would have needed. I'll try this out and let you know.
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I tested it before telling you so it will work. then you can s-off.
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exad said:
I tested it before telling you so it will work. then you can s-off.
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It's not liking the: adb shell su -c "/data/local/tmp/soffbin3" command. It's outputting: /sbin/sh: su: not found
I flashed SuperSU and I'm getting the same error.

Magickalhack said:
It's not liking the: adb shell su -c "/data/local/tmp/soffbin3" command. It's outputting: /sbin/sh: su: not found
I flashed SuperSU and I'm getting the same error.
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Sorry man, I fell asleep. You still stuck at this part?
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[Q] bricked...kinda

long story short I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp, DID NOT backup (I know) gained su, tried to install cm10 and now I am in boot loop. tried relocking and re flashing stock ruu, that landed me in only booting into bootloader. re-unlocked and re flashed twrp back to boot loop. I am not real familiar with adb so I would need simple instructions please. what do I do? thanks

You haven't given the important information, please post your bootloader details.
PS. You're not even close to being bricked. A brick is only when you have absolutely no response from your device whatsoever.
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timmaaa said:
You haven't given the important information, please post your bootloader details.
PS. You're not even close to being bricked. A brick is only when you have absolutely no response from your device whatsoever.
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I'm not sure what information you mean, it says
Evita pvt ship s-on rl
hboot-2.14.0000
radio-0.24p.32.09.06
opendsp-v34.1.0.45.1219
emmc-boot
nov 26 2012, 18:37:14:-1

timmaaa said:
You haven't given the important information, please post your bootloader details.
PS. You're not even close to being bricked. A brick is only when you have absolutely no response from your device whatsoever.
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I can get into bootloader and I can get into recovery but from there i'm not sure what to do, in the original instructions I went to reboot and clicked system, after doing that is when the boot loop started and if I do it again now the same thing happens just bootloops

brick builder said:
long story short I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp, DID NOT backup (I know) gained su, tried to install cm10 and now I am in boot loop. tried relocking and re flashing stock ruu, that landed me in only booting into bootloader. re-unlocked and re flashed twrp back to boot loop. I am not real familiar with adb so I would need simple instructions please. what do I do? thanks
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I would get familiar with adb. Not as confusing as you think. Here is a good guide to start with.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9936674
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s-off!!! After you ruu before reunlocking or anything are you still bootlooping? I have had that happen before, I fixed it once with a factory reset in bootloader. Make sure you only do factory reset in bootloader completely stock or you will corrupt sdcard. Running "fastboot erase cache" in fastboot after flashing custom recovery or even stock could help, i always run this command anytime i flash something in fastboot. When flashing a custom rom make sure to do full wipes, i always go to advcanced in wipe tab and select everything except sdcard.

DvineLord said:
s-off!!! After you ruu before reunlocking or anything are you still bootlooping? I have had that happen before, I fixed it once with a factory reset in bootloader. Make sure you only do factory reset in bootloader completely stock or you will corrupt sdcard. Running "fastboot erase cache" in fastboot after flashing custom recovery or even stock could help, i always run this command anytime i flash something in fastboot. When flashing a custom rom make sure to do full wipes, i always go to advcanced in wipe tab and select everything except sdcard.
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I booted into recovery and tried a "full wipe" said it failed. screen shows a lot of unable to mounts...

pinoy724 said:
I would get familiar with adb. Not as confusing as you think. Here is a good guide to start with.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9936674
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very useful and easy to follow thanks for the link, however adb commands don't seem to be working as when I try any of them nothing happens. even adb devices just says list of devices attached and there is no list and no devices, adb shell does nothing etc. I tried a factory reset from bootloader and it just rebooted into twrp...when from feeling like a king when I finally got su on there to such a dumbass now, and the wife is enjoying telling me I should've have messed with it in the first place.

If you can get into twrp do it then mount your device to pc, copy a ROM of choice to filesystem, unmount phone, do a full wipe, then flash the ROM.
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If you can't do a full wipe then just flash the ROM without it then if it works you can reflash if needed
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jluca98 said:
If you can get into twrp do it then mount your device to pc, copy a ROM of choice to filesystem, unmount phone, do a full wipe, then flash the ROM.
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If you can't do a full wipe then just flash the ROM without it then if it works you can reflash if needed
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when I enter twrp and mount my pc says it wants to format the drive, if I click no it closes the window and I cant see it. am I missing something?

This might help you out.
http://forums.team-nocturnal.com/in...ternal-storage-on-the-htc-one-xxl/?hl=corrupt
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On the other hand formatting to fat32 will fix your mounting issue I think
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brick builder said:
when I enter twrp and mount my pc says it wants to format the drive, if I click no it closes the window and I cant see it. am I missing something?
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ok so I re-formatted it and was about to enter twrp and mount the drive, I downloaded the latest updated rom from htc.com and tried to load it with twrp that didn't work so I tried to use htc's tool and that didn't work either.

You need to slow down and do some research before trying all this stuff which you have no clue about. You're on a fast track to actually bricking your phone. All you need to do is install a ROM in recovery, reboot to bootloader, flash the boot.img from the ROM via fastboot and reboot into the ROM. That's all you needed to do from the very beginning because you're s-on. Unfortunately the people who were trying to help you didn't identify this and kinda sent you on a wild goose chase
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pinoy724 said:
I would get familiar with adb. Not as confusing as you think. Here is a good guide to start with.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9936674
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I'm not sure why you sent him there, it has nothing to do with his problem.
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Well he had a corrupted that wouldn't let him mount the SD so my advice was to format it to fat32 then install a ROM from the forum.
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The corrupted sd card wasn't until later in the thread. You don't need adb for that anyway, you format it through Windows. All he had to do originally was flash the boot.img via fastboot.
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timmaaa said:
You need to slow down and do some research before trying all this stuff which you have no clue about. You're on a fast track to actually bricking your phone. All you need to do is install a ROM in recovery, reboot to bootloader, flash the boot.img from the ROM via fastboot and reboot into the ROM. That's all you needed to do from the very beginning because you're s-on. Unfortunately the people who were trying to help you didn't identify this and kinda sent you on a wild goose chase
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I'm not sure why you sent him there, it has nothing to do with his problem.
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ok, do you know a good source for fastboot or can I just google it and get it from where ever? I appreciate everyones help and input. Sorry i'm getting alittle ahead of myself, i'm leaving for the week for work and not having a working phone to talk to the wife and kids is kinda got my head spining

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I'm not sure why you sent him there, it has nothing to do with his problem.
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Sorry that I didn't lead him to exactly where he needed. There are a lot more experienced people on XDA than I am to lead him in the right direction. Just trying to tell him tell him not to be intimidated to learn some adb. Could be helpful in the near future.
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brick builder said:
ok, do you know a good source for fastboot or can I just google it and get it from where ever? I appreciate everyones help and input. Sorry i'm getting alittle ahead of myself, i'm leaving for the week for work and not having a working phone to talk to the wife and kids is kinda got my head spining
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You should be able to just Google adb/fastboot. The traditional way is to download the Android SDK and get it from there but that's a huge download. I know there are sources which will supply you with just adb and fastboot but I can't remember where.
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I'm not sure why you sent him there, it has nothing to do with his problem.
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Sorry that I didn't lead him to exactly where he needed. There are a lot more experienced people on XDA than I am to lead him in the right direction. Just trying to tell him tell him not to be intimidated to learn some adb. Could be helpful in the near future.
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its cool, it was an informative thread, if i'm going to do this I should try to learn as much as I can so this doesn't happen to me again

TIMMAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
timmaaa said:
You should be able to just Google adb/fastboot. The traditional way is to download the Android SDK and get it from there but that's a huge download. I know there are sources which will supply you with just adb and fastboot but I can't remember where.
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thanks to EVERYONE for the help, TIMMAAA especially did exactly what you said and right now I am looking at the cyanogenmod screen on a working phone. what an great site/tool this site is, and the people with the knowledge and willingness to help is great I can't click thanks enough, you guys rock!!!

Problem installing carbon rom 4.3.1 over maximus hd

Hye. I installed maximushd rom few weeks ago. Now i wanted to install carbon rom but each time i flash it from recovery it fails.
I also installed miui rom. It flashes fine and boots. But i cant access my sd card. Only internal 48mb can be seen. Is there any solution for these problems?
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Rantrave07 said:
Hye. I installed maximushd rom few weeks ago. Now i wanted to install carbon rom but each time i flash it from recovery it fails.
I also installed miui rom. It flashes fine and boots. But i cant access my sd card. Only internal 48mb can be seen. Is there any solution for these problems?
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Sure just flash the old firmware
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755
bootloader clear storage
fastboot flash your new custom recovery
Then load whatever rom you want and install it.
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or another way, I did, just to see if I could go back if I wanted to
flashed stock recovery
factory reset from bootloader... waited for it to do it's thing.... when it rebooted to phone I held down the power button to reset it.. held down volume down to get back into bootloader.
made sure it was in fastboot usb mode
ran RUU
But that was kind of overkill.

tivofool said:
Sure just flash the old firmware
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755
bootloader clear storage
fastboot flash your new custom recovery
Then load whatever rom you want and install it.
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or another way, I did, just to see if I could go back if I wanted to
flashed stock recovery
factory reset from bootloader... waited for it to do it's thing.... when it rebooted to phone I held down the power button to reset it.. held down volume down to get back into bootloader.
made sure it was in fastboot usb mode
ran RUU
But that was kind of overkill.
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so if i just flash the 3.4 kernel firmware i can install other roms without problems??? i will still be s off and super cid, right? thanks for ur advice bro.

Rantrave07 said:
so if i just flash the 3.4 kernel firmware i can install other roms without problems??? i will still be s off and super cid, right? thanks for ur advice bro.
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Sure, it's not going to get rid of Soff or anything.
That only happens when you use the ****** (fastboot command that will not be named, because someone will use it and have a paperweight)

tivofool said:
Sure, it's not going to get rid of Soff or anything.
That only happens when you use the ****** (fastboot command that will not be named, because someone will use it and have a paperweight)
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okay. trying it now.

tivofool said:
Sure just flash the old firmware
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or another way, I did, just to see if I could go back if I wanted to
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Thx for your advices !
By doing the 1st or the 2nd method, then I'll have to re-unlock via HTC Dev ?
I ask that because I want to restore with RUU and I see everywhere that I have to relock the bootloader before doing this.

benJX said:
Thx for your advices !
By doing the 1st or the 2nd method, then I'll have to re-unlock via HTC Dev ?
I ask that because I want to restore with RUU and I see everywhere that I have to relock the bootloader before doing this.
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You don't have to relock bootloader to run RUU on s-off device.
Just reboot to fastboot, make sure your pc can see your phone and execute ruu*.exe
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tivofool said:
Sure just flash the old firmware
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755
bootloader clear storage
fastboot flash your new custom recovery
Then load whatever rom you want and install it.
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or another way, I did, just to see if I could go back if I wanted to
flashed stock recovery
factory reset from bootloader... waited for it to do it's thing.... when it rebooted to phone I held down the power button to reset it.. held down volume down to get back into bootloader.
made sure it was in fastboot usb mode
ran RUU
But that was kind of overkill.
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just flashed firmware and twrp cand read sdcard,cant wipe ? did U have that also
edit: did not clear storage in bootloader,is that problem or?

luxandroid said:
just flashed firmware and twrp cand read sdcard,cant wipe ? did U have that also
edit: did not clear storage in bootloader,is that problem or?
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Yes, that is the important bit, clear storage in bootloader when you have the STOCK recovery.
The stock recovery fixes the issues. (from what I have read on our forums)

I did it but no help ,when try RUU got 158 error ,reverted back to Maximus ,have no time to bug any more
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I am s-off and tough I can flash any ruu with no problems but there is always something
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I think I should first flash old firmwear and than run RUU...
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luxandroid said:
I did it but no help ,when try RUU got 158 error ,reverted back to Maximus ,have no time to bug any more
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I am s-off and tough I can flash any ruu with no problems but there is always something
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I think I should first flash old firmwear and than run RUU...
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I hope it works for you.

worked
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tivofool said:
Sure, it's not going to get rid of Soff or anything.
That only happens when you use the ****** (fastboot command that will not be named, because someone will use it and have a paperweight)
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its a bit late but i would like to tell you that it worked
Um back on miui v5 :good::good:

FINAL!! 1/7/2014 [recovery]{selinux support} cwm advanced recovery 6

I made a port of philz andvanced cwm flashable with fastboot. hope it works for ya. works for me
thank phil3759 for an awesome recovery.
I dont think any harm can be done.lol so i wont give a speech. just flash it
FINAL VERSION. UNZIP FLASH IN FASTBOOT ENJOY

Cheers dude will give it a try in a bit, will let you know the results
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Had to flash it a time or two, but it works! No issues so far, thank you!
EDIT: Did run into an issue, when attempting to flash a new ROM it gave me an error "status 7" stating that the rom was tagged as for an "m4", but the device read as an " " from recovery. Backup and restore seems to work just fine though, so I restored from nandroid.

Just remove asserts from updater script. You probably tried flashing cm11 and the rom doesnt work.
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You are correct, thank you for the info.

cmvienneau said:
I made a port of philz andvanced cwm flashable with fastboot. hope it works for ya. works for me
thank phil3759 for an awesome recovery.
I dont think any harm can be done.lol so i wont give a speech. just flash it
FINAL VERSION. UNZIP FLASH IN FASTBOOT ENJOY
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This is top notch work chief - selinux, whoop whoop!
Edit - oh bollox, I'm s-off. Can't boot with unlocked bootloader....

nelvinchi said:
This is top notch work chief - selinux, whoop whoop!
Edit - oh bollox, I'm s-off. Can't boot with unlocked bootloader....
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You cant? try not booting from recovery just power down and then reboot. ive found that to work with s-off and unlocked. ive heard of many talking about this problem.lol i aint had it?

Sorry, I didn't explain properly.....
The issue is that I can't boot my ROM with s-off and an unlocked bootloader - just boot loops, it's a known issue.
I'd have to unlock the bootloader to flash your recovery, but then my ROM won't boot. As your recovery doesn't have a terminal emulator built in like TWRP has, I have no way of relocking the bootloader (I would execute ./revone -l ) so ROM can't boot.....
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Would your modified hboot firmware image allow s-off and unlocked bootloader to work? Thanks!
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nelvinchi said:
Sorry, I didn't explain properly.....
The issue is that I can't boot my ROM with s-off and an unlocked bootloader - just boot loops, it's a known issue.
I'd have to unlock the bootloader to flash your recovery, but then my ROM won't boot. As your recovery doesn't have a terminal emulator built in like TWRP has, I have no way of relocking the bootloader (I would execute ./revone -l ) so ROM can't boot.....
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Would your modified hboot firmware image allow s-off and unlocked bootloader to work? Thanks!
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use adb instead LOL! adb is on in recovery mode

1/7/2014

kyhuu007 said:
1/7/2014
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January 7th 2014. I'm American. Lol

cmvienneau said:
January 7th 2014. I'm American. Lol
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:crying:

kyhuu007 said:
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This thread is old news.haha

Somehow for me, the recovery switches to os recovery. I have custom recovery upgrade off, I have to reset the recovery every time I update.

can you please tell me on how to do this? ive downloaded the recovery image but when i try to use it using odin i cannot see the file recovery image. please help