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[Q] Bricked/softbricked and Confused {2.20?}

So get this: I've got a friend who owns this One X, right? He got it replaced, and he got back a phone running the "new OTA", which I'm assuming is 2.20. He unlocked his bootloader and got root, and tried to flash a custom recovery (CWM from what he tells me), and then it died. He knows that I'm good at the whole Android thing, so he gave me the phone with the task of bringing it back to life.
Given that my regular phone is a GNex, "bricked" and "softbricked" aren't terms I use often, so I'm not entirely sure it's applicable to this situation. But, I'll tell you everything I know about the situation.
When I power it up, it comes up with the htc splash, then the "This build is for development purposes only..." message. It stays like that for a little bit, then the screen goes off. It comes back within five seconds, and it just continues ad nauseum.
I'm able to get into hboot and fastboot (booting into the bootloader with power+voldown) and execute fastboot commands, but I really don't know what I should do, and even if I do, I don't have the files I need.
The bootloader has this information; I'm fairly sure it can help...
Code:
evita pvt ship s-on rl
HBOOT 1.14.0002
eMMC boot
Radio - 0.19as.32.09.11_2
I executed a fastboot command (I forget which one), and I wrote down the value...
Code:
mainver: 2.20.502.7
I assume this is the installed system version, or something similar, but please correct me if I'm wrong xD
All I'm trying to do is to get this thing to boot into Android. If I can do that much, I'm sure he'd be more than elated. Thing is, I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with this phone, much less what I'd have to do to fix it.
TL;DR
My friend's phone is screwed up, how do I fix it?

wiiareonfire said:
So get this: I've got a friend who owns this One X, right? He got it replaced, and he got back a phone running the "new OTA", which I'm assuming is 2.20. He unlocked his bootloader and got root, and tried to flash a custom recovery (CWM from what he tells me), and then it died. He knows that I'm good at the whole Android thing, so he gave me the phone with the task of bringing it back to life.
Given that my regular phone is a GNex, "bricked" and "softbricked" aren't terms I use often, so I'm not entirely sure it's applicable to this situation. But, I'll tell you everything I know about the situation.
When I power it up, it comes up with the htc splash, then the "This build is for development purposes only..." message. It stays like that for a little bit, then the screen goes off. It comes back within five seconds, and it just continues ad nauseum.
I'm able to get into hboot and fastboot (booting into the bootloader with power+voldown) and execute fastboot commands, but I really don't know what I should do, and even if I do, I don't have the files I need.
The bootloader has this information; I'm fairly sure it can help...
Code:
evita pvt ship s-on rl
HBOOT 1.14.0002
eMMC boot
Radio - 0.19as.32.09.11_2
I executed a fastboot command (I forget which one), and I wrote down the value...
Code:
mainver: 2.20.502.7
I assume this is the installed system version, or something similar, but please correct me if I'm wrong xD
All I'm trying to do is to get this thing to boot into Android. If I can do that much, I'm sure he'd be more than elated. Thing is, I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with this phone, much less what I'd have to do to fix it.
TL;DR
My friend's phone is screwed up, how do I fix it?
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He probably forgot to flash boot.img in fastboot.
If you are bricked, this phone will not turn on and be listed as QHSUSB_DLOAD in windows.
edit: cwm + evita(htc one xl) = bad.
he needs TWRP

wiiareonfire said:
So get this: I've got a friend who owns this One X, right? He got it replaced, and he got back a phone running the "new OTA", which I'm assuming is 2.20. He unlocked his bootloader and got root, and tried to flash a custom recovery (CWM from what he tells me), and then it died. He knows that I'm good at the whole Android thing, so he gave me the phone with the task of bringing it back to life.
Given that my regular phone is a GNex, "bricked" and "softbricked" aren't terms I use often, so I'm not entirely sure it's applicable to this situation. But, I'll tell you everything I know about the situation.
When I power it up, it comes up with the htc splash, then the "This build is for development purposes only..." message. It stays like that for a little bit, then the screen goes off. It comes back within five seconds, and it just continues ad nauseum.
I'm able to get into hboot and fastboot (booting into the bootloader with power+voldown) and execute fastboot commands, but I really don't know what I should do, and even if I do, I don't have the files I need.
The bootloader has this information; I'm fairly sure it can help...
Code:
evita pvt ship s-on rl
HBOOT 1.14.0002
eMMC boot
Radio - 0.19as.32.09.11_2
I executed a fastboot command (I forget which one), and I wrote down the value...
Code:
mainver: 2.20.502.7
I assume this is the installed system version, or something similar, but please correct me if I'm wrong xD
All I'm trying to do is to get this thing to boot into Android. If I can do that much, I'm sure he'd be more than elated. Thing is, I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with this phone, much less what I'd have to do to fix it.
TL;DR
My friend's phone is screwed up, how do I fix it?
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sounds like your FRIEND needs to flash in fastboot the boot.img that came with his rom...

Crappyvate said:
sounds like your FRIEND needs to flash in fastboot the boot.img that came with his rom...
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absolutelygrim said:
He probably forgot to flash boot.img in fastboot.
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Would I be able to get a stock boot.img and system.img from the 2.20 RUU? Should I even use the RUU for this?

wiiareonfire said:
Would I be able to get a stock boot.img and system.img from the 2.20 RUU? Should I even use the RUU for this?
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what ROM did he flash. copy the boot.img from that ROM and flash it in fastboot, then flash the ROM

First, extract boot.img onto comp. Move boot.img into adb files. Rezip Rom and transfer to sdcard. Fire up command prompt where you stored boot.img. type --> fastboot flash boot boot.img
Once successful, flash Rom IN RECOVERY. profit
Tell your FRIEND to follow posts before blindly flashing, he'd be more prepared
sent from my venom injected, blazingly fast as f#&k OneXL via xda premium

Can you get into boot loader? Hold the volume down whilst the phone boots. Flash TWRP!! Clockworkmod is not supported for our device. Oh and very first. Make sure you have the Evita not the international one x.
Check this thread out. Might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33303798
Sent from my One X using xda premium

absolutelygrim said:
what ROM did he flash. copy the boot.img from that ROM and flash it in fastboot, then flash the ROM
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He didn't flash any ROM, only CWM. He wasn't ever able to get into recovery to flash anything.
subarudroid said:
Can you get into boot loader? Hold the volume down whilst the phone boots. Flash TWRP!! Clockworkmod is not supported for our device. Oh and very first. Make sure you have the Evita not the international one x.
Check this thread out. Might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33303798
Sent from my One X using xda premium
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Just did that, and it's still not working. Can't even boot into recovery.
I'm gonna need a boot.img, but he started from stock OTA. I don't know how the boot.img could've gone bad from flashing a bad recovery, but I'll try that anyway.
Question is, where would I get a boot.img for the stock sense ROM? Or, how would I be able to flash a ROM without being able to get into recovery?

wiiareonfire said:
He didn't flash any ROM, only CWM. He wasn't ever able to get into recovery to flash anything.
Just did that, and it's still not working. Can't even boot into recovery.
I'm gonna need a boot.img, but he started from stock OTA. I don't know how the boot.img could've gone bad from flashing a bad recovery, but I'll try that anyway.
Question is, where would I get a boot.img for the stock sense ROM? Or, how would I be able to flash a ROM without being able to get into recovery?
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hold your horses, let's take a deep breath here. Have you tried to reboot in recovery through adb ? If that does not work why don't you try to fastboot flash a proper recovery for the one x, TWRP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33179690&postcount=1

Crappyvate said:
hold your horses, let's take a deep breath here. Have you tried to reboot in recovery through adb ? If that does not work why don't you try to fastboot flash a proper recovery for the one x, TWRP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33179690&postcount=1
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C:\Android>adb reboot recovery
error: device not found
Surprisingly enough, you need to be booted into android for adb commands to work. Even the bootloader option for "recovery" gets me nowhere.
Out of nowhere, he tells me he tried to flash a rom.
Ali: the rom that i flashed hmmm.
if i sent that to you would you be able to do anything?
well, tried flashing?
Me: a download link would be preferable
but yes, i'll need that
Ali Haider: got it.
give me a few minutes.
what if the rom wasn't supported?
because i can't completely remember which of the several roms i tried to flash were the problem
Me: what do ya mean "not supported"
Ali:
like clockwork- it apparently doesn't work
Me:
gimme whichever you flashed most revently
a link
i'll need the boot.img
and if you don't know which rom, gimme a list to narrow it down
and i'll go one by one
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TL;DR, he flashed with CWM and that's why it's screwed up.
Ladies and gents, we might be getting somewhere with this. Albeit, slowly, thanks to my friend who can't read the posts.

I think Crappyvate has the right idea here. You need to flash a proper recovery.
Sent from my One X using xda premium

subarudroid said:
I think Crappyvate has the right idea here. You need to flash a proper recovery.
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So I've flashed TWRP at least three different times, and I can't the phone to boot into it.
I've flashed two different boot.img files, no avail.
He claims all he's done is fastboot flash CWM, and then the thing went down the drain. Splash screen over and over again, exactly what I'm seeing here. Is there any reason that flashing TWRP over it wouldn't work? Is there a fastboot command I can use to make sure the partition is clean?

wiiareonfire said:
So I've flashed TWRP at least three different times, and I can't the phone to boot into it.
I've flashed two different boot.img files, no avail.
He claims all he's done is fastboot flash CWM, and then the thing went down the drain. Splash screen over and over again, exactly what I'm seeing here. Is there any reason that flashing TWRP over it wouldn't work? Is there a fastboot command I can use to make sure the partition is clean?
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What happens after flashing twrp in flashboot ? what msg do you get ?

Okay, scratch that. I flashed TWRP again and again through fastboot, and instead of using "recovery", I used "factory reset", and it opened up TWRP.
Fun fact: it's not able to mount the /sdcard, so using adb to push the zip for the ROM just crashes TWRP. That was my last-ditch plan to get the ROM file onto the phone to flash it. Anyone else got any idea how to get a file on there?

wiiareonfire said:
Okay, scratch that. I flashed TWRP again and again through fastboot, and instead of using "recovery", I used "factory reset", and it opened up TWRP.
Fun fact: it's not able to mount the /sdcard, so using adb to push the zip for the ROM just crashes TWRP. That was my last-ditch plan to get the ROM file onto the phone to flash it. Anyone else got any idea how to get a file on there?
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thats a cwm classic it corrupted the SD card. you need to reformat the sd card, can you mount usb through twrp ?

Crappyvate said:
thats a cwm classic it corrupted the SD card. you need to reformat the sd card, can you mount usb through twrp ?
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I formatted it... I think correctly? NTFS, right? If not, what file system, and what program should I use to format it that way?

I believe Fat32, but I may be wrong on that.
And you can use windows built in formatter.

wiiareonfire said:
I formatted it... I think correctly? NTFS, right? If not, what file system, and what program should I use to format it that way?
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yep fat 32, dunno windows sorry...

Yup fat32. That what I did. My first hox I soft bricked as well with cwm
Sent from my One X using xda premium

I formatted with FAT32... It's still not accepting the file. TWRP crashes when the adb push command is finished. Is there something I'm missing?

[Q] S-OFF Facepalm help please

Hi all not too sure if I am doing this right but here goes (if not sorry).I tried to do the facepalm method a couple of times to get S-OFF with my one S (S4) I did the supercid, installed Recovery and placed a new rom on( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065357 ) all by using the AIO tool kit from this site. All upto date versions of drivers etc. I can get as far as point 5 on the Facepalm method and first time got “FAILED (remote: 92 supercid! please flush image again immediately)” which from what i can gather is correct. I then proceeded to the next stage which I then found I had not installed SU (Now this is where have a funny feeling where it went Pete Tong on me), so i installed SU then went back to point 6 which seemed to push all the files though fine but I had no S-OFF. So I scanned through the thread and found someone else with the same problem and they fixed it by installing VIPER 2.2 rom I think this is where thing really went wrong. After the rom installed it gave black screen of death but after some faffing I got it to the dead android with the red triangle and the exclamation inside it screen abd it got stuck rebooting like that for a while. I managed (After 6 hrs+) to install a RUU 3.15 EU stock rom and started from scratch again with the original rom that I used (see link above) now I all get is the 99 error (I now have SU and rooted) so any thought (apologies for spelling and grammar I know how you like that)
Hboot version 2.15 or 2.13 (can remember which can get into bootloader if you really need it to be exact)
Recovery is TWRP 2.4.4.0
Hope you can help
thanks in advance

U sure the 'black screen of death' wasn't the stock recovery? That's how it looks triangle with exclamation mark inside
Can't figure out what your problem is try going onto their chat thing and asking the dev for help but before you do...
Do u flash super su in recovery or install from play store? I have a habit to flash it in recovery because a lot of the time it didn't work for me when I installed it from the play store
Also ones you super CID reboot your phone 3 times, I had a problem when after SuperCID I had no CID and jcase told me to reboot a few times then it worked

k1llacanon said:
U sure the 'black screen of death' wasn't the stock recovery? That's how it looks triangle with exclamation mark inside
Can't figure out what your problem is try going onto their chat thing and asking the dev for help but before you do...
Do u flash super su in recovery or install from play store? I have a habit to flash it in recovery because a lot of the time it didn't work for me when I installed it from the play store
Also ones you super CID reboot your phone 3 times, I had a problem when after SuperCID I had no CID and jcase told me to reboot a few times then it worked
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I think it was stock recovery but it just didn't like the Viper Rom i think when I check the CID it is 1111111 so I know that has worked and I installed SU in the recovery. Oh and was my "windows" take on the black screen of death yes it was the recovery screen but it still took 6 hrs plus to get it from that screen and back to booting normally sorry thought I made sense my bad

The Watergod said:
I think it was stock recovery but it just didn't like the Viper Rom i think when I check the CID it is 1111111 so I know that has worked and I installed SU in the recovery. Oh and was my "windows" take on the black screen of death yes it was the recovery screen but it still took 6 hrs plus to get it from that screen and back to booting normally sorry thought I made sense my bad
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Dude you don't flash a custom rom in stock recovery the stock recovery is used for flashing official ota's
Download twrp 2.3.3 (nothing higher) and flash it to the phone by going into hboot
And on computer type
Fastboot flash recovery "name of recovery. Img"
Then boot Into recovery and flash Viper
U need to read properly... Don't do it if u don't know what your doing you can very easily brick your device..

Sorry mate I think I either wrote it wrong or you misread somewhere I have unlocked a fair few phones I didn't flash the custom Rom through stock. After the soft brick with the viper Rom I put an ruu 3.15 on then went through all the aio tool kit from scratch again my bad for not explaining properly I am not that dumb ha ha cheers for the reply though
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium

I'm pretty sure that the 99 error means you have to do a proper reboot. Turn off fastboot in the power settings, turn off the phone, turn it on again to the OS. Make sure the phone is rooted, make sure you have custom recovery. Go through the S-OFF procedure again.
Edit: ALSO WIPE YOUR CACHE IN RECOVERY!

Hunt3r.j2 said:
I'm pretty sure that the 99 error means you have to do a proper reboot. Turn off fastboot in the power settings, turn off the phone, turn it on again to the OS. Make sure the phone is rooted, make sure you have custom recovery. Go through the S-OFF procedure again.
Edit: ALSO WIPE YOUR CACHE IN RECOVERY!
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Okay dokey will give it a bash cheers!

The Watergod said:
Okay dokey will give it a bash cheers!
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ok so the reboot worked for the 92 error code muchios gracias for that ran the S-off again still no joy but its a bit further on will not give up!

The Watergod said:
ok so the reboot worked for the 92 error code muchios gracias for that ran the S-off again still no joy but its a bit further on will not give up!
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:victory: All done cheers everyone :victory:

stuck in a boot loop after a update from internal storage

Hello my friends!!
I really need you help, I have some kind of soft brick. After I try to update my new htc one xl (asia version), now I'm stuck in a boot loop. Here's my info:
my CID=11111111.
I can get to bootloader & fastboot. My phone is stuck on the htc logo "htc quietly brillant". I think tha I screw up the OS.
Any ideas??
Best regards,

Happened to me, too. What worked for me was getting into fastboot and doing:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
in the windows command prompt. After that get the ROM you most recently installed and extract the "boot.img" and put it in the same directory as fastboot.exe and then flash that boot image with:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Once that is done, do this again:
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fastboot erase cache
and it should boot normally.
Let us know if that is not the case.

You should only need to use fastboot erase cache once. Doing it a second time is pointless. Also, your problem is extremely well documented on this site by the hundreds before you who have posted this exact same issue.
Not to mention, if you can't figure this out, you never should have rooted in the first place. This is why I ignored this post.
Search and read and you'll easily fix your phone.
Egoista's solution assumes you have a 1.14 hboot and hadn't flashed the boot.img
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

Thanks a lot for both replies!!
Finally I use RUU tool and everything was great. Now I have my phone updated to Jelly Bean
Regards!
exad said:
You should only need to use fastboot erase cache once. Doing it a second time is pointless. Also, your problem is extremely well documented on this site by the hundreds before you who have posted this exact same issue.
Not to mention, if you can't figure this out, you never should have rooted in the first place. This is why I ignored this post.
Search and read and you'll easily fix your phone.
Egoista's solution assumes you have a 1.14 hboot and hadn't flashed the boot.img
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
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Tatirulo said:
I really need you help, I have some kind of soft brick. After I try to update my new htc one xl (asia version), now I'm stuck in a boot loop.
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The reason for this is quite simple, and should have been obvious. OTA needs stock recovery in order to install. When it can't find stock recovery, the install gets stuck.
RUU worked because RUU also overwrites recovery with the stock one.
In any case, you should never ever install an OTA on a rooted device without first researching what will happen, at a minimum. It usually won't work, and will often bootloop the device.

redpoint73 said:
The reason for this is quite simple, and should have been obvious. OTA needs stock recovery in order to install. When it can't find stock recovery, the install gets stuck.
RUU worked because RUU also overwrites recovery with the stock one.
In any case, you should never ever install an OTA on a rooted device without first researching what will happen, at a minimum. It usually won't work, and will often bootloop the device.
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I suggest not updating at all without reading. Even custom ROMs.
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[Q] I Soft Bricked my HTC One M8

Hey guys,
Tonight I went to install cleanrom on my Verizon HTC One M8. I made a nandroid backup as I always do before flashing a new ROM and then proceeded to flash the new ROM. That went great but then I did something I wouldn't normally do I wiped my data just because I wanted a fresh start and all of my important stuff was backed up online. But when I went to boot I'm stuck on the HTC logo. I have an OTG cable so I proceeded to put the ROM on a flash drive and flash it. Same problem. So I put my old ROM ViperOne 2.4 on the flash drive and flashed it. Now I instantly boot into fastboot. This all seems really strange to me but I'm sure its caused by me stupidly formatting data. I need a bigger flash drive to install the original nandroid backup I found online so I will get one today and post my results. I'm almost positive that will fix my problem but I know there might be an HTC guru out there that knows exactly what my problem is and it may be more then what I'm thinking. Sorry this is scattered ive been messing with my phone all night and kinda tired now. Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for taking time to help me with this issue. And if I missed anything let me know and I will be sure to post it.

Edit
Sorry I completely forgot to add that I put my nandroid backup on my flash drive but when I went to use it it did not work. I believe this is because I did not have a big enough flash drive so it did not completely back up. LOL! Tonight was not my night.

radiowavedev said:
Hey guys,
Tonight I went to install cleanrom on my Verizon HTC One M8. I made a nandroid backup as I always do before flashing a new ROM and then proceeded to flash the new ROM. That went great but then I did something I wouldn't normally do I wiped my data just because I wanted a fresh start and all of my important stuff was backed up online. But when I went to boot I'm stuck on the HTC logo. I have an OTG cable so I proceeded to put the ROM on a flash drive and flash it. Same problem. So I put my old ROM ViperOne 2.4 on the flash drive and flashed it. Now I instantly boot into fastboot. This all seems really strange to me but I'm sure its caused by me stupidly formatting data. I need a bigger flash drive to install the original nandroid backup I found online so I will get one today and post my results. I'm almost positive that will fix my problem but I know there might be an HTC guru out there that knows exactly what my problem is and it may be more then what I'm thinking. Sorry this is scattered ive been messing with my phone all night and kinda tired now. Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for taking time to help me with this issue. And if I missed anything let me know and I will be sure to post it.
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Did you flash newest "firmware" as well? The 2.xx.xxx.x ROM's need newest firmware to boot correctly. (Radio, hboot). Old hboot would cause it to hang at boot.

When I flash ROMs in TWRP I go into advanced and check data, dalvik cache, system, and data every time, never had an issue.

andybones said:
When I flash ROMs in TWRP I go into advanced and check data, dalvik cache, system, and data every time, never had an issue.
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+1

andybones said:
When I flash ROMs in TWRP I go into advanced and check data, dalvik cache, system, and data every time, never had an issue.
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That is why this was so strange to me. The hboot firmware sounds promising though.

bigblueshock said:
Did you flash newest "firmware" as well? The 2.xx.xxx.x ROM's need newest firmware to boot correctly. (Radio, hboot). Old hboot would cause it to hang at boot.
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Thank you for the response. I never even knew it was necessary to flash hboot. I've flashed a couple of ROMs before and never flashed hboot. I will try this tonight. Is this just as simple as flashing a zip? And I pick the newest available version?

radiowavedev said:
Thank you for the response. I never even knew it was necessary to flash hboot. I've flashed a couple of ROMs before and never flashed hboot. I will try this tonight. Is this just as simple as flashing a zip? And I pick the newest available version?
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not just hboot my friend.
the whole firmware.
if you were to take the OTA you would get this firmware installed.
since we are S-OFF and we don't want to take the OTA, as it's MUCH easier to just fastboot the firmware.zip once someone takes the OTA and pulls all the needed files..
here is the thread you want - here
here is a direct copy and paste from the thread full credit to the OP
"4.4.3 DOWNLOADS BELOW no boot or recovery included in this (what this means is that you won't have to re-flash a custom recovery after the firmware, they removed it to make things easier on us.)
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712470028
CREDIT TO dottat as he posted it 1st so no need for me too well just use his. Be sure to thank him if you see if around.
Flash via fastboot or Sd card method. Flash at your own risk.
directions for flashing firmware via fastboot an radios below.
Place the zip in your fastboot/adb directory on your computer.
Put the device in fastboot mode
(Volume down and power until menu appears, select fastboot using power button)
Connect the device to the computer
Enter the following commands from terminal/command prompt in the fastboot directory, one at a time:
fastboot oem rebootRUU (this puts the device in RUU mode)
fastboot flash zip firmware.zip (rename file to firmware.zip)
It will say that the update did not finish, to flush again, so repeat the above step:
fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
Then fastboot reboot-bootloader��
FYI on my m8 i did not need to be reflushed on 1.55 but on the new update it did.
credit for these directions also come from santod "

andybones said:
not just hboot my friend.
the whole firmware.
if you were to take the OTA you would get this firmware installed.
since we are S-OFF and we don't want to take the OTA, as it's MUCH easier to just fastboot the firmware.zip once someone takes the OTA and pulls all the needed files..
here is the thread you want - here
here is a direct copy and paste from the thread full credit to the OP
"4.4.3 DOWNLOADS BELOW no boot or recovery included in this (what this means is that you won't have to re-flash a custom recovery after the firmware, they removed it to make things easier on us.)
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712470028
CREDIT TO dottat as he posted it 1st so no need for me too well just use his. Be sure to thank him if you see if around.
Flash via fastboot or Sd card method. Flash at your own risk.
directions for flashing firmware via fastboot an radios below.
Place the zip in your fastboot/adb directory on your computer.
Put the device in fastboot mode
(Volume down and power until menu appears, select fastboot using power button)
Connect the device to the computer
Enter the following commands from terminal/command prompt in the fastboot directory, one at a time:
fastboot oem rebootRUU (this puts the device in RUU mode)
fastboot flash zip firmware.zip (rename file to firmware.zip)
It will say that the update did not finish, to flush again, so repeat the above step:
fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
Then fastboot reboot-bootloader��
FYI on my m8 i did not need to be reflushed on 1.55 but on the new update it did.
credit for these directions also come from santod "
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Thank you for all of the useful information I will give this a shot tonight.

radiowavedev said:
Thank you for all of the useful information I will give this a shot tonight.
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Quite welcome, be sure to go into the thread I posted and thank them, it's all their words, I simply copy and pasted it for you.

andybones said:
Quite welcome, be sure to go into the thread I posted and thank them, it's all their words, I simply copy and pasted it for you.
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Yeah I'm quite used to the ways of XDA but honestly had no idea about hboot. And I definitely will be thanking them. I'm now home and will test it out. I'll post my results afterwards.

andybones said:
Quite welcome, be sure to go into the thread I posted and thank them, it's all their words, I simply copy and pasted it for you.
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Okay so I downloaded m8.443.firmware.zip does this have to be flashed via fastboot? And once I flash it should I flash my custom rom cleanrom 2.0 rc and that should be it for my issue?

radiowavedev said:
Okay so I downloaded m8.443.firmware.zip does this have to be flashed via fastboot? And once I flash it should I flash my custom rom cleanrom 2.0 rc and that should be it for my issue?
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well in bootloader/fastboot yes.. but you DO NOT run the fastboot command..
this is exactly what you do
1) the file you downloaded, m8.443.firmware.zip - rename this to firmware.zip
2) adb reboot bootloader (or however you get there)
3) fastboot oem rebootRUU - this is the important part you will be brought to a black screen with a gray HTC logo IIRC, run the next command - the green bar may stop 3/4 of the way this is because you when you run the last command it will finish it.
4) fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
5) fastboot reboot-bootloader

Im sorry this might be stupid but what do you mean by not running fastboot command? And you say reboot-bootloader shouldn't I do reboot-recovery and flash my custom rom after factory resetting of course. Sorry im just trying to make sure im thorough. I would think messing up hboot would permanently brick my phone.

andybones said:
well in bootloader/fastboot yes.. but you DO NOT run the fastboot command..
this is exactly what you do
1) the file you downloaded, m8.443.firmware.zip - rename this to firmware.zip
2) adb reboot bootloader (or however you get there)
3) fastboot oem rebootRUU - this is the important part you will be brought to a black screen with a gray HTC logo IIRC, run the next command - the green bar may stop 3/4 of the way this is because you when you run the last command it will finish it.
4) fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
5) fastboot reboot-bootloader
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Would it just be easier to use a nandroid backup?

I figure in the meantime ill fill you in on everything I know about my phone. I was previously running the newest version of ViperOne which was 2.5.0 This problem came up after flashing cleanrom 2.0 RC. I am S-off and unlocked of course and I am running CWM-based Recovery v6.0.4.8 and my hboot stats are as follows:
***UNLOCKED***
M8_WLV PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-VZW__001
HBOOT-3.16.0.0000
RADIO-0.89.20.0321
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-1.55.605.2
eMMC-boot 2048MB
I have searched the forums looking for anything related to my issue and cant seem to come up with anything. I have come across a few people with the same issues as me but there questions go unanswered which makes me very nervous... I do believe it is related to my hboot firmware but I cant seem to find a thorough explanation of hboot. Sorry I am a former Motorola guy. This HTC stuff is really mixing it up for me. LOL!
I really appreciate all of the help you have given me and am grateful that you are hanging in with my HTC stupidity and phobia of bricking this 700 dollar piece of aluminum and magnesium.

radiowavedev said:
I figure in the meantime ill fill you in on everything I know about my phone. I was previously running the newest version of ViperOne which was 2.5.0 This problem came up after flashing cleanrom 2.0 RC. I am S-off and unlocked of course and I am running CWM-based Recovery v6.0.4.8 and my hboot stats are as follows:
***UNLOCKED***
M8_WLV PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-VZW__001
HBOOT-3.16.0.0000
RADIO-0.89.20.0321
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-1.55.605.2
eMMC-boot 2048MB
I have searched the forums looking for anything related to my issue and cant seem to come up with anything. I have come across a few people with the same issues as me but there questions go unanswered which makes me very nervous... I do believe it is related to my hboot firmware but I cant seem to find a thorough explanation of hboot. Sorry I am a former Motorola guy. This HTC stuff is really mixing it up for me. LOL!
I really appreciate all of the help you have given me and am grateful that you are hanging in with my HTC stupidity and phobia of bricking this 700 dollar piece of aluminum and magnesium.
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Separate the terminology "ROM" and "Firmware" for a moment. Firmware should/will never change regardless of what ROM's you flash. Think of firmware as a computers BIOS, And ROM as your computers operating system.
First, turn your phone off. Second, hold volume down + power button and do NOT let go of volume down until you're in the boot loader screen. Step 3) switch the boot loader into fast boot within that screen(Fast boot or fast boot USB may come up by default it will be highlighted in red). If you're plugged up to your computer via USB, it should automatically say "Fastboot USB". Then you can execute the commands in the command prompt andybones was talking about.
Did i loose you anywhere?
You could just nandroid back to your previous ROM... but that defeats the purpose. You'll never be able to go to a newer Sense ROM without the firmware upgrade anyway. You might as well get it done because it may improve your network signal, boot times, etc. Usually only benefits you,
After you upgrade firmware, it will say hboot 3.18.0000, Radio: 1.09.20.0702,

radiowavedev said:
Would it just be easier to use a nandroid backup?
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I didn't just waste my time to write you up a STEP BY STEP FOOL proof guide.
I am not doing this for my benefit...
You made a thread.
You asked for help.
I gave detailed, if you mess up you didn't follow them exactly..
Why would you have me give you exact directions to fix your phone, then ask about a nandroid?
NO. If it were that simple my friend, don't you think I would have let you known this?
I'm sorry if this comes off rude, but I went out of my way to give you exact detailed instructions and you blow them off.
Why make a thread and then not take the advice from a Recognized Contributor to this site!?
I hope you can understand how frustrating this is.
I don't do this because it's fun for me to help get your phone fixed, I do it because you asked for help, and I like to help, but when my help goes un-heard and blown off - I walk away. - Best of luck my friend.
I am still going to help because that's the kind of guy I am..
Run the RUU since you are S-OFF if nothing else works.
You are a SOFT-brick. Very easy to fix.

Andybones, I totally understand. I wasnt trying to be rude im just confused and trying to come up with ideas. I understand it was dumb to mention the nandroid now. I hope you can accept my sincerest apology. I appreciate everything you have done for me and understand if you dont want to help me any longer. Like I said it was not my intention to be rude but I see how it can look like that. I just dont know what im doing.

Hi there, I believe I may have been in the same position as you at some point. What actually is happening is that you are trying to flash a new ROM (4.4.3 I believe) with the old hboot. The ROM should still boot but it will take up to 20min.
How to fix this:
1. Boot into boot loader, (manually or adb)
2. Choose fastboot
3. Connect to USB
4. Open command prompt
5. Fastboot devices
6. fastboot oem rebootRUU
7. You should see a black screen with a dark HTC logo.
8. fastboot flash zip (nameofzip).zip
9. When it finishes type fastboot reboot-bootloader (hyphen required)
10. You just flashed the new firmware but it has no os. You now need to flash a ROM or restore a nandroid backup.
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HTC ONE SV STUCK AT BLACKSCREEN. help please!

Hi,
I'm having problems with my HTC one SV. it powers on then it will show "htc quietly brilliance logo" and after that it shows black screen then stuck on it. i had this problem before so I remove the battery then power it on solves the problem but lately it does not work anymore lets say it's like 1/100 before it goes thourgh. i really dont know what to do tried searching for solutions just cant get it. I'm kinda newbie on terms so if anyone can help me I'm very thankful.
Thank you in Advance!

Seems like a common problem for many HTC One SV's.
Take a look in the Q&A section, there should be many threads, where i described what to do. As long as it's no US carrier phone, then things are different.
Basically:
- unlock your phone with htcdev.com (all data is lost)
- flash TWRP recovery with fastboot
- flash a rom for your model

old.splatterhand said:
Seems like a common problem for many HTC One SV's.
Take a look in the Q&A section, there should be many threads, where i described what to do. As long as it's no US carrier phone, then things are different.
Basically:
- unlock your phone with htcdev.com (all data is lost)
- flash TWRP recovery with fastboot
- flash a rom for your model
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my phone is from middle east. i assume that its all in htcdev.com? like step by step on what to do? honestly i really don't know how to flash TWRP, flash a rom and etc. I'm just having a hard time learning maybe because it's 1st time for to do it plus I'm not yet familiar with it.

You needto learn, how to use fastboot cmd, otherwise i guess your phone is lost.
But its not so hard, if you can use a computer
At htcdev you can get the basic fastboot files you need.
Try to read and follow the unlock guide, then we see how far we come.

old.splatterhand said:
You needto learn, how to use fastboot cmd, otherwise i guess your phone is lost.
But its not so hard, if you can use a computer
At htcdev you can get the basic fastboot files you need.
Try to read and follow the unlock guide, then we see how far we come.
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Hi,
im having hard time. tried to follow the steps on htcdev but im having error. here is the message.
"the program can't start because adbwinapi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem.
any idea on how fix this?

phuge17 said:
adbwinapi.dll is missing
any idea on how fix this?
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This dll should be in the package that you have downloaded from htcdev.

old.splatterhand said:
This dll should be in the package that you have downloaded from htcdev.
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Hi,
I managed to unlock my phone , TWRP and all that. i also downloaded your "[ROM]Stock odexed Android 4.2.2 Sense 5 " for k2_ul. i followed your instruction on how to install by the way mine is S-on so flash with fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img) am I correct? i see some okay it was kinda fast so i feel weird i thought the installing will take a minute or so because its almost 1gig file download. anyway the only thing i did not do is this part "Don't forget to flash Superuser file (look into my index thread) if you want root!" actually i really dont know what you mean by that sorry. my phone still not yet booting still stuck at blackscreen.
UPDATE** phone is just restarting over over again from htc quietly brilliant >> power off >> htc quietly brilliant >> power off.

phuge17 said:
Hi,
I managed to unlock my phone , TWRP and all that. i also downloaded your "[ROM]Stock odexed Android 4.2.2 Sense 5 " for k2_ul. i followed your instruction on how to install by the way mine is S-on so flash with fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img) am I correct? i see some okay it was kinda fast so i feel weird i thought the installing will take a minute or so because its almost 1gig file download. anyway the only thing i did not do is this part "Don't forget to flash Superuser file (look into my index thread) if you want root!" actually i really dont know what you mean by that sorry. my phone still not yet booting still stuck at blackscreen.
UPDATE** phone is just restarting over over again from htc quietly brilliant >> power off >> htc quietly brilliant >> power off.
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Why install an odex 4.2.2 Rom when your 4.2.2 Rom is odex by stock?

phuge17 said:
Hi,
I managed to unlock my phone , TWRP and all that. i also downloaded your "[ROM]Stock odexed Android 4.2.2 Sense 5 " for k2_ul. i followed your instruction on how to install by the way mine is S-on so flash with fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img) am I correct? i see some okay it was kinda fast so i feel weird i thought the installing will take a minute or so because its almost 1gig file download. anyway the only thing i did not do is this part "Don't forget to flash Superuser file (look into my index thread) if you want root!" actually i really dont know what you mean by that sorry. my phone still not yet booting still stuck at blackscreen.
UPDATE** phone is just restarting over over again from htc quietly brilliant >> power off >> htc quietly brilliant >> power off.
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Have you done a wipe in recovery before flashing the new rom?
SHM said:
Why install an odex 4.2.2 Rom when your 4.2.2 Rom is odex by stock?
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Usually it it is.

old.splatterhand said:
Have you done a wipe in recovery before flashing the new rom?
Usually it it is.
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sorry it took me weeks before i reply. anyway i did wipe the phone. are there any like reset command while on fast boot or something so that i can start from the beginning? actually im a bit lost.

Boot to recovery -> Wipe menu -> Advanced Wipe and wipe System, data, cache, dalvik cache.
Then go to Install and flash the rom for your model.
Then boot to fastboot and flash the boot.img of the rom with fastboot cmd fastboot flash boot boot.img
If that does not bring your phone back to life, something else is wrong.