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[Q] Only have Hboot...

Hi, im new to rooting and stuff and i could use some help. after i flashed twrp and did a backup followed by a reboot i lost access to to everything except hboot. No i cant use my phone or twrp but i still have hboot unlocked. can anyone lead in me in the right direction? thanks

shadyboy039 said:
Hi, im new to rooting and stuff and i could use some help. after i flashed twrp and did a backup followed by a reboot i lost access to to everything except hboot. No i cant use my phone or twrp but i still have hboot unlocked. can anyone lead in me in the right direction? thanks
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Reboot the phone holding power and volume down until you're into the bootloader screen and then select recovery. Try restoring the backup you made. If that doesn't work go back into recovery, put a rom on the sdcard, and flash it. Then reboot.

i cant get to my sdcard because i cant get to twrp anymore. everytime i have it reboot from bootloader it just goes the htc screen and turns off. :crying:

Reinstall twrp from fast boot.
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Yea, try that. After that select reboot recovery from the bootloader not reboot.

omg i got twrp back. wow that scared me thanks.

[Q] Inspire 4G Need help flashing rom with S-ON

Hello, I've recently completed the Bootloader unlocking method with Easy Ace Root Tool. Bootloader is unlocked and SHIP S-ON, I need to flash a rom. These roms require S-OFF and have no method to flash them with only an unlocked bootloader and S-ON.
So let me get this straight, us 'low level' and unexperienced users are left without any method to gain S-OFF privileges without following the vague guide provided at tau(dot)shadowchild(dot)nl/attn1/?p=411 Yeah... I can't.
Trying to find alternate methods I have only gone in circles and keep running into old how-to guides. The more I read the more confused I become. I hope someone can point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it!
Thanks,
Ninjewbag

You don't need S-Off. Flash a ROM in recovery, then flash the ROM zip's boot.img in fastboot.

bananagranola said:
You don't need S-Off. Flash a ROM in recovery, then flash the ROM zip's boot.img in fastboot.
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Good deal, thanks for the reply!
I put the ROM Android Revolution HD 9.0 on the root of my SD card, booted in recovery mode and chose the recovery option, I got the red exclamation mark icon so I pressed VOL up + power button which didn't work so I pulled the battery. I tried all above steps again but this time I was able to successfully get into "Android system recovery <3e> with VOL up + power button. With 4 options:
Reboot system now
Apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
I chose the option to wipe all data, said it could not find Efolder name)'s and "data wipe completed successfully".
Then I wiped cache, then chose the option to apply update from sdcard, it said "Invalid operation" then "success rebooting by reason 00" and proceeded to reboot by itself.
Phone factory reset, I rebooted into recovery again with the same red exclamation mark error. Pressed Vol up + power and back into "Android system recovery". At the bottom in yellow text it says "E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command". I tried another "update from SD card" and recieved error: "success rebooting by reason 00" and reboots.
I don't have a nandroid backup as I read I needed Root to make one, but the phone still works fine as far as I can tell. I don't have a working simcard in it though.
Also from what I've read my eMMC chip may be fried so it looks like I'm retiring early. I'll keep an eye on this thread among others with the same problems.
Cheers,
Ninjewbag

Volume + and power brings you to the factory recovery; you need to use vol - have you flashed a different recovery? If not, flash 4ext recovery through fast boot and try again

RadRacer said:
Volume + and power brings you to the factory recovery; you need to use vol - have you flashed a different recovery? If not, flash 4ext recovery through fast boot and try again
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Thank you for the info! No luck finding the 4ext .IMG file anywhere yet, they're all dead links. I have the 4ext recovery.APK but that doesn't do me any good since I don't have root. Still looking and thanks again.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31211732

ninjewbag said:
Thank you for the info! No luck finding the 4ext .IMG file anywhere yet, they're all dead links. I have the 4ext recovery.APK but that doesn't do me any good since I don't have root. Still looking and thanks again.
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You can install the app and then open the app and use it to manually download the recovery zip which you can flash or copy it to your pc and extract the recovery.img file and flash with fastboot. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself wiht the adb and fastboot utils as they come in handy.

turboyoshi said:
You can install the app and then open the app and use it to manually download the recovery zip which you can flash or copy it to your pc and extract the recovery.img file and flash with fastboot. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself wiht the adb and fastboot utils as they come in handy.
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Thanks for the reply but as for installing the 4ext free updater version, it wasn't on the market so I used android injector to place and install that APK. None of the options worked as they all give the same error "it seems your phone is not rooted, this option will not function" etc.
RadRacer said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31211732
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Nice! Wasn't expecting to find the 4ext recovery within the adbfastboot.zip. With that I was able to move on, create a nandroid and successfully install a custom rom, thanks! Was a little scared after rebooting, it took around 5 minutes to load past the "quietly brilliant" screen but is working fine now nonetheless.

ninjewbag said:
Nice! Wasn't expecting to find the 4ext recovery within the adbfastboot.zip. With that I was able to move on, create a nandroid and successfully install a custom rom, thanks! Was a little scared after rebooting, it took around 5 minutes to load past the "quietly brilliant" screen but is working fine now nonetheless.
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Glad to help. Wanna hit thanks?

[Q] [Help] Phone only boots to TWRP

having some troubles with my vzw m8. i just got the phone, used sunshine to get s-off then downlaoded the twrp app to install the recovery.
since i was on stock and didnt have a super reboot menu, i powered down. did the vol down+power to get to the bootloader.
then chose recovery it gave me the device with the red ! sign. then i fiddled with the buttons and it went to TWRP. That seems funny to begin, but it gets better.
Now, i can't boot normally. it always goes to TWRP. any ideas?
HBOOT 3.16

mangler1055 said:
having some troubles with my vzw m8. i just got the phone, used sunshine to get s-off then downlaoded the twrp app to install the recovery.
since i was on stock and didnt have a super reboot menu, i powered down. did the vol down+power to get to the bootloader.
then chose recovery it gave me the device with the red ! sign. then i fiddled with the buttons and it went to TWRP. That seems funny to begin, but it gets better.
Now, i can't boot normally. it always goes to TWRP. any ideas?
HBOOT 3.16
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I had a similar problem when I first S-Off'd and rooted my M8 with the firewater method, could only get the phone to boot into recovery. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708628 and look for the section of the first post for -- *Unsecured Kernel --, try flashing that, it finally let me boot to the ROM and return to normal functionality.

Zhamel said:
I had a similar problem when I first S-Off'd and rooted my M8 with the firewater method, could only get the phone to boot into recovery. Go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708628 and look for the section of the first post for -- *Unsecured Kernel --, try flashing that, it finally let me boot to the ROM and return to normal functionality.
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you flashed it to the wrong partition..if so all you need to do is fastboot flash twrp an then reboot your recovery it will be twrp in the right place. Just restore a backup you made an you will be all set...if you have no backup..smh then load a ROM to your SD card via PC then do as above flash ROM of SD card an that will fix your issue.
quoted wrong person. My bad
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mangler1055 said:
having some troubles with my vzw m8. i just got the phone, used sunshine to get s-off then downlaoded the twrp app to install the recovery.
since i was on stock and didnt have a super reboot menu, i powered down. did the vol down+power to get to the bootloader.
then chose recovery it gave me the device with the red ! sign. then i fiddled with the buttons and it went to TWRP. That seems funny to begin, but it gets better.
Now, i can't boot normally. it always goes to TWRP. any ideas?
HBOOT 3.16
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Read my above post. I meant to quote you.
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Power & vol down no longer loads bootloader after flashing

Hello,
I am getting myself deeper into trouble working on this.
First I will explain what I did, I wanted marshmallow and read TWRP needs to be updated to load it and also that that I cannot restore from older backup, so I figured I update TWRP first then do a backup.
I did the TWRP update via app, verified the partition and when done and rebooted to recovery, TWRP was still v2.7 and the phone won't boot, the OS was gone.
so then I figured I flash Dottat M8firmwareandRecovery to get the new TWRP and backed up the Data partition.
then found out that I can't use that Data partition with a different OS. So I figured I flash KitKat back on.
did that, now I can not get back into recovery, holding the Vol down with power will not go to HBOOT.
now KitKat loads, had root, but the dang thing auto updated to 4.4.3 and now lost root. I thought it can't auto update with s-off
so it as asking for another update now and I turned it off. Waiting for someone to help , I keep making it worse.
my phone was unlocked and s-off, I hope it still is, can anything undo that?
Please help

Fireflynj said:
Hello,
I am getting myself deeper into trouble working on this.
First I will explain what I did, I wanted marshmallow and read TWRP needs to be updated to load it and also that that I cannot restore from older backup, so I figured I update TWRP first then do a backup.
I did the TWRP update via app, verified the partition and when done and rebooted to recovery, TWRP was still v2.7 and the phone won't boot, the OS was gone.
so then I figured I flash Dottat M8firmwareandRecovery to get the new TWRP and backed up the Data partition.
then found out that I can't use that Data partition with a different OS. So I figured I flash KitKat back on.
did that, now I can not get back into recovery, holding the Vol down with power will not go to HBOOT.
now KitKat loads, had root, but the dang thing auto updated to 4.4.3 and now lost root. I thought it can't auto update with s-off
so it as asking for another update now and I turned it off. Waiting for someone to help , I keep making it worse.
my phone was unlocked and s-off, I hope it still is, can anything undo that?
Please help
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I've personally never seen a device go back to S-ON without the user doing it with the cmd.
That isn't to say it's never happened before.
I'd assume you are still S-OFF.
What happens when you flash a ROM that has a power menu and you select to reboot to recovery or bootloader?
Or you can root and download an app that works the same way. curious what it does.
Also how long are you holding the buttons?
If everything else is working you should be able to get to hboot/recovery - but I honestly don't know.
My suggestion?
Get a more recent RUU .exe and run it on your PC and see what happens.
here is the link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347812372

andybones said:
I've personally never seen a device go back to S-ON without the user doing it with the cmd.
That isn't to say it's never happened before.
I'd assume you are still S-OFF.
What happens when you flash a ROM that has a power menu and you select to reboot to recovery or bootloader?
Or you can root and download an app that works the same way. curious what it does.
Also how long are you holding the buttons?
If everything else is working you should be able to get to hboot/recovery - but I honestly don't know.
My suggestion?
Get a more recent RUU .exe and run it on your PC and see what happens.
here is the link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347812372
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I would, but I don't know how to flash without the HBOOT, I got some research to do to learn how to do it from the PC.

Fireflynj said:
I would, but I don't know how to flash without the HBOOT, I got some research to do to learn how to do it from the PC.
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Download the .exe and click open. Follow directions on the screen. It doesn't get easier, trust me you'll be fine. Wouldn't steer you wrong.

Fireflynj said:
I would, but I don't know how to flash without the HBOOT, I got some research to do to learn how to do it from the PC.
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The only time I've seen a phone be a pita when trying to enter boot loader is when it's connected to USB.
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dottat said:
The only time I've seen a phone be a pita when trying to enter boot loader is when it's connected to USB.
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My Galaxy Tab2 did that. I tried the M8 again today with USB unplugged, did not get boot loader menu, but then while it was on, I did a Vol up and power (forced shutdown) then while still holding the power button switched to Vol down right when the screen blanked, then I got the boot loader! :victory:

Fireflynj said:
My Galaxy Tab2 did that. I tried the M8 again today with USB unplugged, did not get boot loader menu, but then while it was on, I did a Vol up and power (forced shutdown) then while still holding the power button switched to Vol down right when the screen blanked, then I got the boot loader! :victory:
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and to correct myself.. one other condition. The older version of software included a "fastboot" option in settings->power that was more like a hibernate feature. That feature when enabled would prevent you from getting into bootloader.

dottat said:
and to correct myself.. one other condition. The older version of software included a "fastboot" option in settings->power that was more like a hibernate feature. That feature when enabled would prevent you from getting into bootloader.
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That makes sense, 'fastboot' was on, its now off.
The bootloader works, KitKat OS is working, but not recovery. I get 'Entering Recovery . . .' on white htc screen and stuck there.
I used adb command prompt to flash recovery with fastboot then I tried HTC_fastboot and different versions of TWRP.
tried flashing with Flashify , no errors, it just doesn't load. I think something else is broke.
dottat, do you have an image of RUU rooted Kitkat with TWRP?
Thank you for the help.

Fireflynj said:
That makes sense, 'fastboot' was on, its now off.
The bootloader works, KitKat OS is working, but not recovery. I get 'Entering Recovery . . .' on white htc screen and stuck there.
I used adb command prompt to flash recovery with fastboot then I tried HTC_fastboot and different versions of TWRP.
tried flashing with Flashify , no errors, it just doesn't load. I think something else is broke.
dottat, do you have an image of RUU rooted Kitkat with TWRP?
Thank you for the help.
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Your firmware is too old. That's why the newer recovery won't work. Do you want to update everything first and then RE-root?
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dottat said:
Your firmware is too old. That's why the newer recovery won't work. Do you want to update everything first and then RE-root?
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Yup , that was it, the older one worked.
So dumped the idea of getting KitKat back and I flashed the Marshmallow custom s-off RUU with TWRP that you provided. so far good now I just need to re-root it.
Thank you

Restore H918 to 100% Stock (!!REQUIRES TWRP!!)

Hey guys, I had my V20 rooted, then after a while, I returned to stock. Upon telling a buddy of mine this, he was wondering how I did it, and sure enough my method didn't seem to be known that much. So here's a guide to restore the T-Mobile V20 (H918) to 100% stock.
First off thanks goes to cbucz24 for extracting the TOT into IMGs. Also, thanks to meraz9000 for making that possible.
Ok, first off there is one draw back. You MUST have access to TWRP, or the ability to install TWRP. First you want to download the system, boot, and recovery images. I pulled them from the IMG zip mentioned above and zipped just those three. You can download it here.
Secondly, unzip those onto SD card, or internal storage if you don't have one.
Boot into TWRP. Easiest way is to use ADB "reboot recovery". If you can't do that, hold volume down and power button, and when you see the LG logo, release the power button for about a second, then continue pressing it. Say yes to both prompts and you'll get into TWRP.
Next BACK UP /SYSTEM! This is very important. Whenever you make a change to anything, make a system backup. DO NOT SKIP THIS.
Next, go to Install and in the lower right tap images. Find system.img and choose that, and choose system image. Install boot.img onto boot. Now reboot to system. If it boots properly, go back to recovery and flash recovery.img to recovery. When those are done, reboot to bootloader, and relock the bootloader (for SafetyNet).
You're done!
If you have any questions, just ask.
Please use LGUP and the KDZ file to restore from now on. It is a much reliable way.

Vuciz said:
Hey guys, I had my V20 rooted, then after a while, I returned to stock. Upon telling a buddy of mine this, he was wondering how I did it, and sure enough my method didn't seem to be known that much. So here's a guide to restore the T-Mobile V20 (H918) to 100% stock.
First off thanks goes to cbucz24 for extracting the TOT into IMGs. Also, thanks to meraz9000 for making that possible.
Ok, first off there is one draw back. You MUST have access to TWRP, or the ability to install TWRP. First you want to download the system, boot, and recovery images. I pulled them from the IMG zip mentioned above and zipped just those three. You can download it here.
Secondly, unzip those onto SD card, or internal storage if you don't have one.
Boot into TWRP. Easiest way is to use ADB "reboot recovery". If you can't do that, hold volume down and power button, and when you see the LG logo, release the power button for about a second, then continue pressing it. Say yes to both prompts and you'll get into TWRP.
Next BACK UP /SYSTEM! This is very important. Whenever you make a change to anything, make a system backup. DO NOT SKIP THIS.
Next, go to Install and in the lower right tap images. Find system.img and choose that, and choose system image. Install boot.img onto boot, and recovery.img to recovery. When those are done, reboot to bootloader, and relock the bootloader (for SafetyNet).
You're done!
If you have any questions, just ask.
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Vuciz, so basically you flash system, boot, and recovery images in twrp one after the other, reboot to bootloader and relock the bootloader? Or you reboot after each flash?
What do u mean by relocking the bootloader?
Thank u so much for your help

Only reboot to the bootloader after everything is flashed.
Once back in the bootloader, connect your phone to a computer and run the command "fastboot oem lock". Make sure you have ADB and fastboot installed.

Thank you. That worked perfectly.

It's really good to see that the bootloader unlock is reversable, unlock with the US996 official unlock. I'll be rooting in a few weeks now for sure.

This works perfectly. Thank you!

Quick question, after i choose the system.img do I just swipe to flash from there and not select a partition? Thanks.
I went ahead and swipe to flash but it wont says to select partition but my only options are boot and recovery?

Hi, I got a quick question. When you relock the bootloader, does the triangle go away or does it stay when you boot? does it turn red then?
Thank you,

matteosaeed said:
Hi, I got a quick question. When you relock the bootloader, does the triangle go away or does it stay when you boot? does it turn red then?
Thank you,
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The unlocked bootloader warning goes away. No triangle
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VegaMaddroxx said:
Quick question, after i choose the system.img do I just swipe to flash from there and not select a partition? Thanks.
I went ahead and swipe to flash but it wont says to select partition but my only options are boot and recovery?
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Try updating TWRP to the latest version.

charlie.s said:
Try updating TWRP to the latest version.
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That was it . Thank you very much worked perfectly.

dynamikz said:
The unlocked bootloader warning goes away. No triangle
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Sweet. Last question, TWRP stays in correct? I am trying to get stock recovery but I am not sure if I can do that! I know we don't have the proper flash tool yet to do that, but was wondering if anyone here was able to achieve that!

matteosaeed said:
Sweet. Last question, TWRP stays in correct? I am trying to get stock recovery but I am not sure if I can do that! I know we don't have the proper flash tool yet to do that, but was wondering if anyone here was able to achieve that!
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The OP describes flashing recovery.img, so I'm thinking it probably restores after a reboot.

I'm fairly sure that TWRP is overwritten when you flash the recovery.img partition with the stock recovery.img. I didn't try to access TWRP following my return to stock efforts as I was going to warranty repair my V20 due to the blown speaker issue.
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matteosaeed said:
Sweet. Last question, TWRP stays in correct? I am trying to get stock recovery but I am not sure if I can do that! I know we don't have the proper flash tool yet to do that, but was wondering if anyone here was able to achieve that!
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Do be very careful with this, I've found from experience that there is no going back from stock recovery if the system won't boot until there is an LGUP dll or equivalent. TWRP is your safety net in regards to everything else going on in development right now, but if you flash the stock recovery and the system decides not to boot, you'll have a paperweight until development catches up. The stock recovery is very limited (VERY, about all you seem to be able to do is factory reset, which likely only wipes the data partition from the speed that it goes through), and fastboot flashing and partition management have been disabled in the v20.

Wanted to do this bit I can't seem to download the files fro m the op
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never mind i figured it out

Yeah... what the hell is the point of backing up SYSTEM if you also are flashing the RECOVERY? You won't be able to save yourself even if something does go wrong. Leave TWRP on until the system boots properly. Then go back into TWRP and flash the stock recovery.

Is there any download for the US996 stock?

Nitemare3219 said:
Yeah... what the hell is the point of backing up SYSTEM if you also are flashing the RECOVERY? You won't be able to save yourself even if something does go wrong. Leave TWRP on until the system boots properly. Then go back into TWRP and flash the stock recovery.
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That's my fault. I thought I mentioned to boot into system fully before flashing the recovery. I'll edit OP.