[Q] Help!! Bootloop?? - HTC One S

Bought a used, not working HTC ONE S. turns on and off about every minute to the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen. If I hold volume down while it is doing this it goes to bootloader screen. From there, I can not get to recovery, I can see barcode screen, I can get to bootloader-usb and pc identifies it as an htc android device in device manager. Can not really power it down from bootloader screen, it powers down for few seconds them goes back to htc screen on and off. Any suggestions?

Just go into Fastboot Mode and flash another Recovery, then you should be able to access it and flash another or try a factory reset.

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Hello, I just unlocked bootloader, flashed custom recovery (clockwork 6.0.4.8), and gained root on my HTC One S. I then attempted to install a custom ROM, (cyanogen 12.1).
After installing and telling Clockwordmod to reboot, I believe I am in a boot loop. The white HTC screen pops up and then goes to black and stays there. When I plug my phone into my computer, I get the connection and chime, and a new device appears in Device Manager called "HTC MTP Device." When I am in fastboot mode, my phone is shown as "Android ADB Interface" in device manager, so this is different. This leads me to believe that my phone is not dead or off, it is on with a blank screen. I do not believe my computer will recognize a device that is not powered on.
I have HTC Sync Manager and I have the option for it to automatically pop up when a device is connected. It pops up, but with an error saying HTC Sync Manager could not connect to your phone.
I am able to hard-reset the phone, by holding down the Power button for several seconds. However, this just repeats the process (White HTC logo screen, then black screen). I am not able to enter bootloader or recovery by holding down Volume and Power. I have tried Volume Up + Power, Volume Down + Power, and Volume Up + Volume Down + Power.
Also adb no longer recognizes my device, so I can not interact with the phone that way either.
Currently, my only idea is to allow my phone to die so I can try booting it into recovery from power off. But if there are any other ideas that would be great.
Right before I rebooted, after installing the ROMs, I got a message saying something like "Root possibly lost, do you want to fix root." I said yes, could this be part of the issue?
I am on Windows 10.
t1j said:
Hello, I just unlocked bootloader, flashed custom recovery (clockwork 6.0.4.8), and gained root on my HTC One S. I then attempted to install a custom ROM, (cyanogen 12.1).
After installing and telling Clockwordmod to reboot, I believe I am in a boot loop. The white HTC screen pops up and then goes to black and stays there. When I plug my phone into my computer, I get the connection and chime, and a new device appears in Device Manager called "HTC MTP Device." When I am in fastboot mode, my phone is shown as "Android ADB Interface" in device manager, so this is different. This leads me to believe that my phone is not dead or off, it is on with a blank screen. I do not believe my computer will recognize a device that is not powered on.
I have HTC Sync Manager and I have the option for it to automatically pop up when a device is connected. It pops up, but with an error saying HTC Sync Manager could not connect to your phone.
I am able to hard-reset the phone, by holding down the Power button for several seconds. However, this just repeats the process (White HTC logo screen, then black screen). I am not able to enter bootloader or recovery by holding down Volume and Power. I have tried Volume Up + Power, Volume Down + Power, and Volume Up + Volume Down + Power.
Also adb no longer recognizes my device, so I can not interact with the phone that way either.
Currently, my only idea is to allow my phone to die so I can try booting it into recovery from power off. But if there are any other ideas that would be great.
Right before I rebooted, after installing the ROMs, I got a message saying something like "Root possibly lost, do you want to fix root." I said yes, could this be part of the issue?
I am on Windows 10.
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Just in case anyone stumbles on this. You can boot into the bootloader by Holding down the Power Button for several seconds, the soft buttons will blink, indicated ensuing reboot, when they stop blinking, hold Volume Down until you get to the bootloader menu. The phone does not need to be powered off for this. From there, adb/fastboot will recognize your phone, and you can factory reset if needed.
However, I figured out my problem. On older HTC models, including the HTC One S, you have to manually flash the boot.img file that is included in the zip for your ROM.
But now I've made it to the cyanogenmod boot screen and am stuck there. sigh. i've been at this literally all day.
In the end, I just flash a different rom, specially Candy5 as found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-s/development/rom-t2964931 and it worked.
It's possible I accidentally flashed a rom that was incompatible with my device, not sure.
EDIT: I also switched from CWM to TWRP. Not sure if that helped.
t1j said:
Just in case anyone stumbles on this. You can boot into the bootloader by Holding down the Power Button for several seconds, the soft buttons will blink, indicated ensuing reboot, when they stop blinking, hold Volume Down until you get to the bootloader menu. The phone does not need to be powered off for this. From there, adb/fastboot will recognize your phone, and you can factory reset if needed.
However, I figured out my problem. On older HTC models, including the HTC One S, you have to manually flash the boot.img file that is included in the zip for your ROM.
But now I've made it to the cyanogenmod boot screen and am stuck there. sigh. i've been at this literally all day.
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I have broken volume down button, what can i do? face the same problem
What does it mean by manually flash boot.img? After flashing a custom rom, do not reboot first but flash the boot.img via twrp which can be found in zip for the rom?

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Need some help. I accidentally messed up my volume buttons on an HTC M8 and had to use adb to boot into recovery. After booting into recovery, I completely wiped my phone (customer ROM) using team win v2.7.0.0 with the intention of installing an official ROM. (Totally forgot I would need the Volume buttons).
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