Okay, let me tell you how I soft bricked (Atl east I think its a soft bricked)
It all starts out with me unlocking my bootloader with htcdev, flashing a recovery on it, then putting superuser.
I wanted to install CM 10.1. I don't have s-off, so I read up on how to do it with the procedure of fastboot flash boot boot.img. I put the zip file on ym sdcard and I went into 4ext, wiped cache and dalvik factory reset , and formated system. I rebooted into bootloader and flashed the boot.img. Rebooting it, it got stuck on black screen. With a little research, i found out my hboot probably did not support the jellybean (cm) I was flashing onto it. So I download a gingerbread rom and used the boot.img of that to try and fixed it, it went into a bootloop. Later on after trying this again, it softbricked (Stuck on htc screen). I tried to install another rom onto it , GizRoot. Its a gingerbread rom. It did not help whatsoever.... Anyone can help me with this?
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hello, I have a problem with a desire s phone which keeps booting into recovery mode when i turn it on. here's my step by step of what I did that got me into this predicament.
the phone had a stock 1.48 asia rom 0.98.0002 bootloader locked, and unrooted. so first I ran revolutionary had no problems there, had a revolutionary logo on my bootloader afterwards and the bootloader version was now 6.98.0002 or something I forget. anyway the next thing i did was I downloaded the stock euro rom 2.10.401.9 and extracted the rom.zip then renamed it to PG88img.zip copied it to the memcard ran fastboot, then fastboot automatically installed the zip after installation restarted the phone, now the phone was stuck on the white htc screen, so I ran recovery press the power and vol up and did a factory reset, had no luck with it still stuck on htc screen, now after reading a lot of threads, downloaded the ENGpg88img bootloader flashed it using fastboot and it was successful, the revolutionary logo was gone and the bootloader was now 6.98.0000 ( PG880000) but now when I rebooted the phone it would go directly back to recovery!! So the next thing i did was ran the euro rom again from the memcard thru fastboot and it updated the bootloader to the newest version and had a "locked"on top of the screen, so i did a boot unlock using htcdev and now its unlocked, then downloaded the clockwork recovery for saga then flashed it using fastboot with no problems. so now when I turn on the phone it goes straight to clockwork recovery! So last thing I did which also failed was I downloaded a pre rooted stock rom euro 2.10, placed it on memcard installed the zip from clockwork recovery then wiped all the data, dalvik cached and all then rebooted. But it still went back to clockwork recovery now I'm stumped. Really need help on this one.
long story short, I can only use fastboot, and if I use clockwork mod recovery to mount system i can do some adb commands. i also tried putting it in fastboot and ran an official RUu but I always get error 150. any help would be greatly appreciated.
It seems that your chip is gone. I have the same problem (boot looping) and had to try reclamation by phone provider. Find thread with "boot looping", or "white screen". You will find some software for a searching of your chip. Finaly all depends on your mobile vendor
yeah i thought it was the chip, but after 3 days of tinkering with it and reading a lot of threads i finally got everything back to normal. thanks for replying though zdech
batmite said:
yeah i thought it was the chip, but after 3 days of tinkering with it and reading a lot of threads i finally got everything back to normal. thanks for replying though zdech
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Could you tell us how you solved it?
batmite said:
yeah i thought it was the chip, but after 3 days of tinkering with it and reading a lot of threads i finally got everything back to normal. thanks for replying though zdech
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Hi, I have the same problem with HTC Desire.
Could you tell how you solved this please?
I don't know if he did what he wrote, but a big mistake was the last step.
batmite said:
So last thing I did which also failed was I downloaded a pre rooted stock rom euro 2.10, placed it on memcard installed the zip from clockwork recovery then wiped all the data, dalvik cached and all then rebooted. But it still went back to clockwork recovery now I'm stumped. Really need help on this one.
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he installed ROM and wiped afterwards. Of course it fails at booting ;-)
If you really are in the same situation like him, wiping first and install ROM afterwards should solve the problem ;-)
Sent by my fingers to your head.
eyahl said:
I don't know if he did what he wrote, but a big mistake was the last step.
he installed ROM and wiped afterwards. Of course it fails at booting ;-)
If you really are in the same situation like him, wiping first and install ROM afterwards should solve the problem ;-)
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Have to disagree with you there, what he said was
installed ROM
wiped DATA
wiped CACHE
rebooted
The ROM ZIP would have been flashed into SYSTEM not DATA, so wipe shouldn't have caused a problem
question is did BOOT flash ok?
I followed the steps from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952038
I successfully unlocked my phone and installed TWRP recovery, but that's as far as I can get. I tried to flash the latest CM10 nightly but hit an error when I run the zip, saying that the MD5 file is not found. I also tried to separately flash the boot.img from the CM10 zip, but it didn't help.
I've cleared my cache and factory wiped (through recovery), but I'm still stuck in the boot loop and can't get to the OS. Please help!!
I think the problem might be that I never actually rooted the phone, despite having unlocked it. Is there a way to root my phone via recovery, since I can't actually boot into it?
I tried to install RebelMod, but i hit an error saying "Unable to mount /data" -- I'm assuming that's because it's unrooted?
you want to root a stock ROM?
flash superuser downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
update: i managed to flash RebelMod successfully (according to TWRC) by running the zip file, but I'm still stuck in the boot loop even after doing a Factory Reset thru TWRC.
am I missing something?
wait a sec -- I got it working after I flashed the boot.img with fastboot.
Tried looking everywhere, but couldn't really find anything. Any help is appreciated!
Alright some background info
I rooted my phone and unlocked the bootloader successfully. I wanted to do more, so I flashed TWRP onto my phone using JRummy's ROM Installer. I followed all the steps and successfully booted into TWRP recovery. I created a Nandroid backup and when I tried rebooting my phone it gets stuck on the 4G LTE boot animation.
I then tried wiping the cache etc. and restoring the backup I had just created. To no avail, the phone kept getting stuck on the boot animation. I've tried restoring the backup multiple times with no success.
On my last attempt I checked another box on the TWRP restore page, I think it was the VG5 verification or something. Halfway through what I though was going to be a successful restore, my phone reset and got stuck in the boot animation again. Now when I boot into recovery it's the stock recovery, not the custom TWRP as before. Tried clearing everything/factory reset and it still stuck on boot animation.
As a college student I'd like to get this figured out as soon as possible (hopefully before midweek, Friday at latest). If I can figure this out with your help I'll be very grateful.
If I can't find any other way, I'm willing to flash stock back using ODIN and seeing how that turns out. Also my home button is a little sticky so I doubt the Verizon worker would be able to boot into recovery or download mode.
Any suggestions?
For those of you TL;DR
1) Rooted phone / unlocked bootloader
2) Flashed custom TWRP recovery onto phone
3) Created a Nandroid backup from recovery
4) Tried rebooting and gets stuck on 4G LTE boot animation screen
5)Wiped cache etc. and retried multiple times. Doesn't work
EDIT: I flashed stock through ODIN and everything seems to be in order. I'll be trying to root and recover everything through TWRP again and if it doesn't work oh well. My end goal is to have a custom ROM
Maybe this will help you
Okay for your problem, if you can go to Download Mode and your recovery back to its stock form, your last option will be flashing it through Odin. There are several method and guides How to Flash via Odin. I will link to you all the guide and try it so your phone will be back to normal. Choose only 1 method
1.) [HOW-TO] Unbrick your soft bricked Galaxy S III (+ bootloader brick)
2.) Verizon Offcial VRBMB1 Odin Files, VRBMF1 Odin Files, and VRBMF1 Update Files
Must read first the guide and download all the necessary.
If your phone gets revived, you can try this method and choose TWRP recovery and update the recovery.
Click Here If Your Ready To Root/Unlock Bootloader/Flash Recovery
Note: You know the responsibility when you root your phone, I am not nor them who created this thread have responsibility to your phone, it is your choice.
Thanks for replying
I've got everything back in order now. I'll try installing AOKP or something
Your Welcome
That's good to hear
i have a htc one s ive been using for over a year now, recently i decided to try to flash recovery using termnal instead of cwm or goomanager because the flash always failed. so i used the dd if something command in terminal and now when i rebooted it got stuck on the splash screen, i then tried to go into recovery via bootloader but then accidently pressed factory reset and everything went downhill, i flashed stock radio did the clear storage then reflashed cwm and flashed the cyansense rom, it went through quick and when i rebooted the same thing happened, stuck on splash screen. i tried erasing cache from fastboot and nothing, i tried flashing ruu and it goes to 3% then fails. i need my phone back to stock for work. i am s-off with custom splash screen and cid 111111111 i will post a picture later.i can access recovery and bootloader. i desperatley need help
If you can access bootloadee I don't see a reason for the RUU to fail.. Just connect your phone when on bootloader make sure it says fastboot usb, close all other programs and run the RUU as admin. If you cant do that try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755 and then factory reset and clear storage (DO NOT flash custom recovery yet just follow exactly the instructions) and after fact reseting and clearing storage flash custom recovery and flash rom. (I think the newest cwm doesn't work, neither in mine worked I don't know just flash twrp 2.6.3.0 or an older cwm 6.0.3.1 works fine for me.)
I unlocked my HTC One Mini then flashed CWM.
I then tried to flash superuser.zip but I couldn't access the sdcard. I read that this was due to the sd not being fat32 so I formatted it in CWM.
This allowed me to put superuser.zip on but I believe it wiped the OS as the SDcard is not external.
So I tried to install CM11 from CWM but I got status (0) and status (7) errors.
I then tried to install a stock ROM and it got halfway through installing update then stopped making any progress so I pressed the power button and it broke CWM. I had to wait for the battery to power down to get back to fastboot.
I followed the advice in this thread (s-on-and-want-to-flash-roms-read-this on androidforums) and tried to use "fastboot boot recovery.img". The advice was to do this and then recovery can access /boot so can write the ROM kernal with S-On. However this just froze the fastboot screen until I held the power button, and then when I restarted the phone it just went to fastboot as did recovery in the bootloader.
I then flashed TWRP and that is where I am now.
I have TWRP in /recovery and the phone is S-On. I haven't tried installing a ROM from TWRP but I imagine the result will be the same as from CWM. As you can probably tell I'm not experienced with this, I successfully installed CM on an HTC desire a couple years ago so I thought this would be easy. I'm guessing I need S-Off to install a ROM, but is it possible to get S-Off without a ROM already installed (with Rumrunner for example)?
Basically I'm stuck, I don't know what to do and any help would be greatly appreciated.