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Bootloader Unlocked... now what?

Hey Everyone,
Im sorry in advance if I'm about to ask the dumbest questions of the day/week, but I'm brand new to this, and I haven't found any answers in any of these threads, so go easy...
Up until now I customized the heck out of my mt4g. Tonight however, I followed HTC's instructions and unlock the boot loader -- as I thought based on what their site said, that I'd be able to flash custom roms to the phone once unlocked.
I was successful in unlocking the Bootloader, but (S=on) still exists. I'm kinda stuck now because I don't know what to do next? Is it possible to go from here to Root, if so, how? I've tried the HTC Super Tool for over an hour and it's not working... not giving me perm S=off. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
If the phone isn't rooted, then how am I supposed to be able to flash a rom??... Do I do it from the HBOOT menu? Because I can't seem to do that either. If I opt for "recovery" while in HBOOT, I come to a red triangle, and have to do a battery pull.
The stock rom that's loaded now has GB 2.3.4 running.
My goal is simply to get CyanogenMod running on this phone. I just don't know what the next step is. I've already factory reset the phone so all my customizations and apps are gone therefore I don't really care what I have to do to get where I want to go. If it's possible to root from here, what's the next step? If root isn't possible, then how do I flash a new rom, like HTC claims I can do now that the BL is unlocked??
If someone could offer some help, I would be super appreciative!!
T40

Follow this link . Very well written guideit worked for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912

headcreepz said:
Follow this link . Very well written guideit worked for me http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912
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Follow that guide and get off the official HTC unlock. You should have read the thread on this forum about it.
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okay... I followed the guide and I achieved "perm-root", I believe.
If I go into terminal emulator, and type SU, I get a # returned. I do notice however that when I boot into HBOOT, it still says s=on. Not sure what the difference is between 'perm root' and 's=on' but...
I have rom manager downloaded. I also have titanium backup downloaded and did a full backup.
PROBLEM:
In rom manager, I Flashed ClockworkMod Recovery, and then downloaded the nightly CyanogenMod, no problem, but every time the phone reboots (into recovery mode), I stop at the red triangle?!?!?!
What's going wrong?

Open rom manager and art the top is an option to install recovery-install it, then you should be good to go

I did install recovery. Everytime it reboots into recovery i get the red triangle.
After I get the red triangle, and I hold the Vol Up button and hit power, I come to a BLUE recovery menu (3e) with 4 options:
- Reboot system now
- Apply update from sdcard
- Wipe data/factory reset
- Wipe cache partition
in the middle of the screen, in yellow text it says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"

track40 said:
I did install recovery. Everytime it reboots into recovery i get the red triangle.
After I get the red triangle, and I hold the Vol Up button and hit power, I come to a BLUE recovery menu (3e) with 4 options:
- Reboot system now
- Apply update from sdcard
- Wipe data/factory reset
- Wipe cache partition
in the middle of the screen, in yellow text it says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
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That's the stock android recovery.
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If you had your device s-off and rooted, why HTC unlock? You just went backwards.

i started with HTC Unlock, then achieved perm-root, but (s=on)

Recovery
Hello,
I had the same issue, I had to flash the recovery with adb
1) If you dont already have it download flash_image and place it in your adb tools folder
2) Download the recovery you need and unzip, then rename to recovery.img and place in the root of your sdcard
3) open terminal and use the following commands
adb push flash_image /system/bin
adb shell
su
cd /system/bin
chmod 777 flash_image*
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
4)wait for it to finish
5) type exit
adb reboot recovery
this should solve the issue
You can find the recovery here...including the new touchscreen version
http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
You can download flash_image here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493
Thanks to Raichison for all the above

okay #furydude39, im all ready to run through your steps... when i issued the first command "adb push flash_image /system/bin", the handset responded with
"failed to copy 'flash_image' to '/system/bin/flash_image': Read-only file system"
Any idea where to go now? This is obviously why every time i boot into recovery that the processes initiated by RomManager isn't sticking.

an hour later...
I was able to execute the commands correctly that 'furydude39' recommended, and still nothing.
Here's a video I shot of the phone [still] giving me a headache
http://youtu.be/2Hr-7CosDQc
Someone's gotta have an idea on how to get past this?

Have you turned off fastboot?
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yes, just checked... fastboot is off

We need to find out why it is not flashing the cw recovery. Are you able to to mount /system partition and copy files to it? I'm thinking a downgrade might be necessary so you can do gfree and eng bootloader.
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okay guys...
I got past the last problem, of getting clockwork mod recovery to work. So, that's all set.
NOW, I use rom manager and i downloaded cyanogenmod 7.1 (stable) + google apps. Once the downloads were complete, I checked all three boxes... backup, clear caches, clear dalvik cache. The phone reboots, goes right into clockwork mod recovery.
the backup goes fine... the cyanogen flash goes without error, and then the google apps flashes without error.
NOW, the phone reboots, and the thing just hangs on the White t-mobile boot screen. Is this supposed to take a while before it goes into Cyanogen's screen? It's been sitting on this white screen for at least 5 minutes.

track40 said:
okay guys...
I got past the last problem, of getting clockwork mod recovery to work. So, that's all set.
NOW, I use rom manager and i downloaded cyanogenmod 7.1 (stable) + google apps. Once the downloads were complete, I checked all three boxes... backup, clear caches, clear dalvik cache. The phone reboots, goes right into clockwork mod recovery.
the backup goes fine... the cyanogen flash goes without error, and then the google apps flashes without error.
NOW, the phone reboots, and the thing just hangs on the White t-mobile boot screen. Is this supposed to take a while before it goes into Cyanogen's screen? It's been sitting on this white screen for at least 5 minutes.
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You should manually wipe and flash. Doing it from the app seems to screw up some of the time. Make sure you wipe system data cache and dalvik before flash. It even helps to reboot recovery after doing wipe before you flash a rom.
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i hate to ask another [stupid] question... but how do i manually do that?

track40 said:
i hate to ask another [stupid] question... but how do i manually do that?
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In recovery, using the volume rockers, look for factory data reset/wipe. I'm not to positive on the exact names, since I have touch recovery. When you find it select wipe data an wipe cache. after those are wiped, go back then find advance, wipe dalvik cache. When that finished, go back. Select install from sdcard, find your files an install them. Everything should work then.
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
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Thanks all for your suggestions. I finally was able to get Cyanogen to stick. Had to wind up flashing the boot.img manually using fastboot via Windows while in HBOOT screen.

[Q] Stuck at CM10 boot screen. Can't recover.

Hi there, this evening I was on the forums, looking for an easy way to root my S3. I followed the steps exactly, and got it rooted. I then went to flash Cyanogen mod 10. I booted into recovery, wiped the cache, and installed the .zip and the gapps.zip. Well I rebooted it from CWM, and it just sits at the boot screen. I've turned it off and tried booting into recovery by holding both volume buttons and the power button, but it just boots up normally back to the CM10 screen. So, I cant seem to get it into recovery, or anything. Please lend me your knowledge.

Did you unlock the bootloader?
JMoneyCountIt said:
Hi there, this evening I was on the forums, looking for an easy way to root my S3. I followed the steps exactly, and got it rooted. I then went to flash Cyanogen mod 10. I booted into recovery, wiped the cache, and installed the .zip and the gapps.zip. Well I rebooted it from CWM, and it just sits at the boot screen. I've turned it off and tried booting into recovery by holding both volume buttons and the power button, but it just boots up normally back to the CM10 screen. So, I cant seem to get it into recovery, or anything. Please lend me your knowledge.
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Recovery is volume up, power, and home. Just boot your phone up by holding all 3.
p.s. - if all you did was wipe cache before going from Stock (ICS) to CM10 (JB) - bad idea. You should always wipe cache, data and dalvik as well if you're going from ICS to JB or vice versa.

You should also format the system when changing base versions (4.0 to 4.1). Especially on aosp roms, and definitely when returning to tw. Most roms incorporate this, but it is evident that it does not always clean it out fully all the time. True clean install is factory data reset/cache/dalvik/format system.
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I did unlock the boot loader. I used the EZ Unlock. But it said that status was unknown. I clicked unlock though and it said it unlocked the boot loader. And there was only one option when I was in CWM, to wipe the cache (it might have been the data I can't quite remember) but either way there were no choices to wipe the data, cache, and dalvik. I tried holding the power, volume down, and home. It said it was downloading, but I let it sit overnight and it never did anything.
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JMoneyCountIt said:
I did unlock the boot loader. I used the EZ Unlock. But it said that status was unknown. I clicked unlock though and it said it unlocked the boot loader. And there was only one option when I was in CWM, to wipe the cache (it might have been the data I can't quite remember) but either way there were no choices to wipe the data, cache, and dalvik. I tried holding the power, volume down, and home. It said it was downloading, but I let it sit overnight and it never did anything.
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Recovery is volume UP, power, and home. Downloading is down. Download mode is when you connect it to your computer to flash firmware via ODIN. CWM definitely has options to wipe data and cache on the main area, with wiping dalvik as an option in advanced options.

I'm very sorry everyone. I took it to my brother and he fixed it for me. Thank you for being so helpful though I just booted to recovery and wiped the cache, dalvik and data. Then it booted up good. I wish I was good with technology
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I ran into the same problem. Do you know how your brother fixed it?
I'll appreciate any help.
Thanks!
JMoneyCountIt said:
I'm very sorry everyone. I took it to my brother and he fixed it for me. Thank you for being so helpful though I just booted to recovery and wiped the cache, dalvik and data. Then it booted up good. I wish I was good with technology
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abum said:
I ran into the same problem. Do you know how your brother fixed it?
I'll appreciate any help.
Thanks!
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Well, I had been pressing the wrong buttons when trying to boot into recovery *facepalm*. Also, I was too dumb to look in the advanced options for the other options, like wiping the cache, data, Dalvik, etc. Pretty much me just being a noob at all that is technology haha

[Q] Help! My faulty TWRP erased cache and system!

I was in recovery to flash a camera mod, after I flashed the mod I went to clear cache and dalvik just like I usually do when I flash something.
It got stuck on erasing cache for TEN minutes. So I held power to reboot it. Cache was then unmountable. Then I heard if that happens it's probably TWRP's fault, and that a Factory Reset would help. So I did that, and now my /system is gone and I unmountable.
I was able to get into bootloader before, but now that I'm at home it seems I'm having trouble getting there. What are some "force"/hard reset ways to get there? When I try to hold to reboot and hold Vol UP/DOWN it stays black??? Sometimes if i just press power it boots to Google and stays. From there I try to hold power to reboot and get UP/DOWN to get to bootloader but either my timing's off or I'm doing somethign wrong?? Help!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2518875
Might want to look that thread over.
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Can u get to recovery? You will have to download a Rom on your computer and side load the Rom to your phone.
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lucky_strike33 said:
Can u get to recovery? You will have to download a Rom on your computer and side load the Rom to your phone.
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Yes but it continuously says "E:Unable to mount /cache"
I tried wiping it but it takes <5 minutes, is this normal? Can I format it in fastboot...? Or should I just use Google Factory and not ever use recovery or what?
What's the long term fix since somehow TWRP can't wipe my cache without doing something horrible, and CWM isn't official?
EDIT: Finally cleared after like 10 minutes. I managed to adb push a stock untouchced zip through TWRP.
EDIT: What the hell? I booted and my phone is just like it was before?? Somehow data survived I guess? Lost no apps, no photos... Cool i guess? /thread

I had the same problem as you and after I flash back the stock camera I can enter the system normally except the internal storge won't be mounted. do you have any idea why...and how to fix it?
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maolin95 said:
I had the same problem as you and after I flash back the stock camera I can enter the system normally except the internal storge won't be mounted. do you have any idea why...and how to fix it?
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Took a factory reset and restored the data, it worked fine. they should put a giant warning in the camera mod thread about this kind of things.

Won't boot past Google bootscreen, TWRP can't mount any partition

I think my Nexus 5 is fried (hopefully not).
I went to check my phone (almost full battery last time I looked), and I notice it's on the boot screen (the google logo with the lock symbol on the bottom) but it won't go past it. Strange, hold power down until it restarts, same thing, stuck at the logo. I am able to get into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.0). But it can't do anything, can't wipe cache, can't restore/backup, because it can't mount any partition.
I was on stock 4.4.4 rooted, with Franco kernel r54.
Have you guys seen this before!? What should I do?

Can you get into the bootloader? Vol down + power
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jd1639 said:
Can you get into the bootloader? Vol down + power
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Yes, that is how I got to recovery. Selected recovery from the bootloader. I can also see the device through fastboot in bootloader mode.

Flyview said:
Yes, that is how I got to recovery. Selected recovery from the bootloader. I can also see the device through fastboot in bootloader mode.
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Get the cache.img from the factory image and flash that in fastboot.
fastboot flash cache cache.img
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jd1639 said:
Get the cache.img from the factory image and flash that in fastboot.
fastboot flash cache cache.img
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Flashed cache.img from the factory image in fastboot, did fastboot reboot, and now it's doing the same thing, stuck at the Google logo.

Flyview said:
Flashed cache.img from the factory image in fastboot, did fastboot reboot, and now it's doing the same thing, stuck at the Google logo.
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I'd try the entire factory image then. You could try it without userdata.img to try and save your data
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jd1639 said:
I'd try the entire factory image then. You could try it without userdata.img to try and save your data
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I will try what this guy did here first:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...o-repairing-corrupted-data-partition-t2577447
This is my lesson to not only do a nandroid backup BUT SAVE IT TO MY COMPUTER.....grrrrr.

jd1639 said:
I'd try the entire factory image then. You could try it without userdata.img to try and save your data
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Just noticed you're on that thread too. If it is the /data that's corrupt, or worse, all my partitions are corrupt, what's the best way to pull the data that's in there now? adb? What if I can't mount it?

Wow...it somehow just booted. I installed Philz' recovery and it was saying the same thing, coudln't mount /data, /cache or anything. Told it to reboot into bootloader, that didn't work so I go to power it on and it booted... :/

Flyview said:
Wow...it somehow just booted. I installed Philz' recovery and it was saying the same thing, coudln't mount /data, /cache or anything. Told it to reboot into bootloader, that didn't work so I go to power it on and it booted... :/
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Well, that's good. Hopefully it'll continue without problems. And, yea, I get around
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I left it overnight to backup everything off my phone onto the computer, and I wake up to it powered off, now it won't boot again, lovely! At least it let me copy everything!

Flyview said:
I think my Nexus 5 is fried (hopefully not).
I went to check my phone (almost full battery last time I looked), and I notice it's on the boot screen (the google logo with the lock symbol on the bottom) but it won't go past it. Strange, hold power down until it restarts, same thing, stuck at the logo. I am able to get into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.0). But it can't do anything, can't wipe cache, can't restore/backup, because it can't mount any partition.
I was on stock 4.4.4 rooted, with Franco kernel r54.
Have you guys seen this before!? What should I do?
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I had the same problem a few weeks ago. If you don't care about losing your /data, just reinstall TWRP and whatever ROM you're using.

Sounds a bit like your emmc is corrupt

Flyview said:
I think my Nexus 5 is fried (hopefully not).
I went to check my phone (almost full battery last time I looked), and I notice it's on the boot screen (the google logo with the lock symbol on the bottom) but it won't go past it. Strange, hold power down until it restarts, same thing, stuck at the logo. I am able to get into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.0). But it can't do anything, can't wipe cache, can't restore/backup, because it can't mount any partition.
I was on stock 4.4.4 rooted, with Franco kernel r54.
Have you guys seen this before!? What should I do?
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Just use wugz, it'll fix it. .

Flyview said:
Wow...it somehow just booted. I installed Philz' recovery and it was saying the same thing, coudln't mount /data, /cache or anything. Told it to reboot into bootloader, that didn't work so I go to power it on and it booted... :/
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So after this happened I decided to completely reflash it with the stock 4.4.4 image. Now, 2 weeks later I wake up and my phone is off. Won't boot past the Google screen, again. Seriously!? I didn't undervolt it at all this time. Completely stock except root and Franco's r54 kernel.

soupysoup said:
Just use wugz, it'll fix it. .
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What option in there...? I don't want to lose my data.

Flyview said:
What option in there...? I don't want to lose my data.
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You probably will have to. Use the option to flash back to stock.

LuqmaanMathee said:
You probably will have to. Use the option to flash back to stock.
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Yea if I wanted to lose my data, it would be easy! It can all be done through fastboot.

Flyview said:
What option in there...? I don't want to lose my data.
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Try flashing a stock, rooted rom in recovery, just dirty flash it. You'll probably have to use adb to side load or push the rom to the device
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jd1639 said:
Try flashing a stock, rooted rom in recovery, just dirty flash it. You'll probably have to use adb to side load or push the rom to the device
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I will try that as a last resort, but considering that /data can't be mounted, I'm pretty sure that won't help since it'll just flash system right? The data partition is corrupt (just like last time). I'm trying the method of fixing the corruption through adb based on the link I pasted on the first page.

What kind of Brick is that?

Hi,
i fashed the fresh RMA Nexus 5 of my friend with the latest 5.0.1 image from google. Now it is stuck at this screen.
I tried to reflash via fastboot and LG flashtool. I tried all the usual suspects (manual reflash etc.) but it refuses to boot. If I want to go into stock recovery it still displays the same screen. Please help!
ThX in advance!

Looks like the stock recovery. Press vol up then power. Then release power
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probably your bootloader flag wasnt clear, so the recovery is trying to do the usual things as you were flashing (wipe data, etc)
on fastboot
do a format cache
and format userdata

Sorry, but tried. I can get into fastboot but for recovery after vol+ then release Power I geht the same screen

Userdata and cache I did wipe

opssemnik said:
probably your bootloader flag wasnt clear, so the recovery is trying to do the usual things as you were flashing (wipe data, etc)
on fastboot
do a format cache
and format userdata
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Did both on fastboot: no change

Hi,
i tried flashing a different recovery via cf-autoroot. Still the same when I try to get into recovery. Any advice?
Edit:
TWPR and CMW it is all the same: Little Android with its open stomach and a spinning tetrahedon.

moesfeld said:
Did both on fastboot: no change
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try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833

opssemnik said:
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833
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This was the first thing I did after the usual flash precedure failed. I´m guessing towards a hardware defect! The Device was a fresh RMA Google Nexus 5 running 4.4.4. It was unable to aquire network connection to LTE and 3g Networks and had random reboots from the start. So I tried upgrading, but now it is completely unusable

did you try booting while plugged in to AC charger? just a thought. seen that yesterday on a friends phone, that was behaving erratically.

beekay201 said:
did you try booting while plugged in to AC charger? just a thought. seen that yesterday on a friends phone, that was behaving erratically.
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Did that over Night. No chance