Please treat me as a total noob, my problem is this i installed the stock RUU Vodafone rom on my HTC One and everything went fine until i had a couple of phone updates ota first 2 installed and phone rebooted no problem on the 3rd system update the phone rebooted but this time on a boot loop where it would get as far as the HTC splash screen the continually reboot itself.
I have gone into recovery – hold power and Vol Down to go into recovery but when i do press the power button to go into recovery it just goes back to the boot loop i did have Clockworkmod installed on the phone but this seems to have stopped working.
I have tried to use fastboot and ADB but because my phone is looping it will not say on long enough to connect to the PC and run a command to wipe the cache.
My question mainly is there anything i can do to save my phone or should i just bin it.
Thanks
You're in the wrong forum, this is the HTC One XL forum.
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I have a normal HTC Sensation (i.e. non-XE). I have had my phone for a couple of months, and have tried all of the different ARHD versions. My phone is s-off, supercid, and I haven't had any problems installing custom ROMS previously.
I was on ARHD 6.0.3. and this morning I was trying to update the firmware to change to the new ARHD 6.1.0 ROM.
I am stuck in a bootloop, after flashing the 3.24.401.1 RUU firmware update.
When the firmware update was completed, I removed the SD card and rebooted. But I think this is where I messed up, because I didn't reboot into recovery!
Now I can't get back into recovery mode. When I hold down the volume key and power key, it just goes to the HTC boot screen, then it gets stuck in the bootloop!
How can I fix this if I am no longer able to boot into recovery
I have tried pulling the battery and SD card, but nothing gets me out of the bootloop.
I did some thread searches, but most solutions assume that you can at least boot back into recovery mode (which I can't seem to do now...) I'd appreciate any help that can get my phone back up and running.
Okay, so I have managed to fix the problem myself after piecing together bits of information from searching existing posts.
While I was searching for answers, I put my SD card into my PC and removed the firmware file. Then I put the SD card back into my phone.
I plugged my phone into my PC while the phone was turned off.
Then I used the windows command prompt to start adb "cd c:\adb"
Then I typed "adb reboot bootloader" to boot the phone into the bootloader. I didn't think this would work with the phone powered off...but it did.
Once in the bootloader, I unplugged the USB cable, and went into Recovery and flashed the ARHD 6.1.1 ROM.
Once the ROM had flashed, I rebooted and everything is working fine again now
You just needed to pull out battery and reinsert.. Then power+ Vol button to enter bootloader ...
jjdoctor said:
You just needed to pull out battery and reinsert.. Then power+ Vol button to enter bootloader ...
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That's what I thought. But I tried that several dozen times, and it didn't work.
thanks for posting what you did to fix it...every time i'm flashing something i always think i'm going to mess it up
No problem. At least now I know that if I ever get stuck in a bootloop again, and I can't get into the bootloader with Vol down + Power, I can use ADB
i have htc one s (s4) tmobile us after buying i unlocked bootloader with the help of hdcdev.com then cwm flashed then
rooted then i installed venom rom all went well.
After that i installed rommanager from market in that i checked download rom option at that time rommanager given
me popup to install cwm recovery. i clicked yes :crying:
After that i am not able to boot into bootloader mode, i also tried all in one toolkit still not get into bootloader mode.
Now its only restarting and going into recovery
baba7444 said:
i have htc one s (s4) tmobile us after buying i unlocked bootloader with the help of hdcdev.com then cwm flashed then
rooted then i installed venom rom all went well.
After that i installed rommanager from market in that i checked download rom option at that time rommanager given
me popup to install cwm recovery. i clicked yes :crying:
After that i am not able to boot into bootloader mode, i also tried all in one toolkit still not get into bootloader mode.
Now its only restarting and going into recovery
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MOD -- please delete this thread, mysteriously i switched off the phone, and restarted it, and it started properly , i am extremely sorry creating this thread
I know it may be crazy, but a similar situation happened to me too.
My HTC One S (S4) had just been unlocked, CWM installed, and installed Venom. I went to use Boot_Flash_Script and then into recovery to Clear Cache. After that point my phone wouldn't boot. It would flash quickly, then have a black screen for 10-15 seconds with the orange LED glow then straight into recovery. Any option to wipe and reinstall the rom didn't work.
Solution: An Aha! Moment... I had forced a shutoff by holding vol up + vol down + top power for 10 seconds. UNPLUG the USB cable! Then after turning it on again with no buttons pushed, it went into Venom.
Whew... Posting an explanation in case anyone else cannot get into hboot / bootloader and thought to have bricked their htc one s. I thought it was bricked until I unplugged the cable and fully shut it off.
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I rooted my MT4GS a few months ago but stuck with the stock ROM. I decided I wanted to try out the CyanogenMod 9.1 ICS ROM. I followed the following steps:
1) Installed ROM Manager.
2) ROM Manager indicated a newer version of ClockworkMod Recovery and I installed it (5.0.2.7).
3) Using ROM Manager, did a full backup of the current ROM. All went well.
4) Using ROM Manager, downloaded and installed CyanogenMod 9.1.0 stable-doubleshot. I specified to wipe the data and cache partitions. The installation seemed to go normally.
When the phone rebooted, it was stuck at the logo screen. Had to remove the battery to turn it off. Tried a couple times, still the same.
Since I had the backup, I decided I would use CWM to restore the old ROM.
When I boot into recovery mode, it shows CWM 5.0.2.7, but whatever option I try to choose from the recovery menu, The screen just goes blank with the CWM logo in the middle and nothing else happens. Hitting the power button returns me to the menu, but no option works, even power down or reboot. It just goes back to the CWM logo again and I have to remove the battery to shut it down.
So, I thought I would try using fastboot to flash the ROM again. When I boot the phone into the boot loader and select fastboot, then plug the phone in via USB, nothing happens. Windows does not see the phone and ADB or fastboot don't see it either. It's not a driver issue, as the computer is still setup from when the computer was rooted and I connect the phone all the time with no problems.
When the phone is off and plugged into USB or the charger, I still get the charging light, though it goes off after about 10 seconds, then comes back on and cycles like that.
Is there anything I can try at this point, or is my phone bricked? It seems like I followed all the steps correctly. Is there an update.zip I can put in the root folder and see if it picks it up?
Any help would be appreciated.
brucehvn said:
I rooted my MT4GS a few months ago but stuck with the stock ROM. I decided I wanted to try out the CyanogenMod 9.1 ICS ROM. I followed the following steps
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Ok, after rebooting Windows, I was able to get the USB connection to the phone to work in fastboot. It seems I missed the step described in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1508556
which states with S-ON you must flash the boot.img separately. I did that via fastboot and the phone boots into cyanogenmod now.
However, I still seem to have the issue with clockwordmod recovery. As long as I do the recovery functions from rom manager, everything is fine, but when I manually boot into the recovery menu, I get the same behavior of any choice from the menu just blanks the screen except for the CWM logo and nothing happens. I tried reflashing the recovery image using fastboot, but still no go.
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However, I still seem to have the issue with clockwordmod recovery. As long as I do the recovery functions from rom manager, everything is fine, but when I manually boot into the recovery menu, I get the same behavior of any choice from the menu just blanks the screen except for the CWM logo and nothing happens. I tried reflashing the recovery image using fastboot, but still no go.
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This is solved also. Seems on the MT4GS, the trackball is the selection button. The power button appears to only be a back button.
What a thread! Two nicely phrased problem definitions, two well explained solutions, and all from the same guy. Sorry we weren't able to help directly, but you obviously found the answers you needed elsewhere in the forum. And you updated the title as well to show it was solved. Thanks.
I scoured the forums, but have not been able to find out what I can do to solve my problem. So here it is.
I rooted my phone (to play around with some settings, what have you) and flashed TWRP recovery onto it. I got an error msg when booting up, so I decided to push an original recovery back onto the phone, because it wouldn't go to TWRP. I followed a guide (which I can't find now) to push back a stock version of recovery and it failed. My phone would boot normally just fine, but when I tried to go to recovery it would loop.
The OTA update came today, and dumbass me pressed continue (not thinking) and now I am stuck in a boot loop, and cannot get out of it.
Cannot get into recovery.
Cannot get into download mode.
Got any ideas?
Thanks
Same Problem
I have pretty much the same problem. Please help!
well without recovery/download mode working or the phone being in fastboot mode there really isn't much that can be done, you can always try to claim on warranty
boot loop
So, let me get this straight. If it failed when you tried to install the stock recovery, then you still have the TWRP recovery right?
I ran into a boot loop problem earlier when I tried upgrading TWRP. I just couldn't access my recovery so here is what I tried:
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Turn your phone off.
Press volume down and power button until the LG logo comes on screen
Let go of both buttons
Hold the volume down and power buttons again until you see the "hard reset screen"
Press power once and then power again to confirm. The screen says it will reset your device but it will not as long as you have a custom recovery installed.
Your custom recovery should appear on screen.
Try the steps above and see if you can get into a recovery. Once you do maybe try resetting. Hope that helps.
I was trying to flash GPE on my phone and it has been stuck for over a half hour. I cant power it off, reboot into recovery. I tried using adb but it says my device is unauthorized. I tried fastboot reboot but it just says waiting for device.
I had CM11 on my phone, I have TWRP (latest version I think) I went into TWRP and did a factory reset and tried installing my new ROM and then it seemed to finish, I hit reboot system and it went to the first screen you see when you power up the phone and it has been stuck there for over a half hour.
If it helps I have a backup sitting on my computer.
Is there anyway to override the fact that adb is seeing my phone as unauthorized?
PLEASE PLEASE HELP
TIA
EDIT: got it, held power+vol up for around 12 sec, then the second the screen went dark I held power+vol down and got into recovery
pie_are_squared said:
I was trying to flash GPE on my phone and it has been stuck for over a half hour. I cant power it off, reboot into recovery. I tried using adb but it says my device is unauthorized. I tried fastboot reboot but it just says waiting for device.
I had CM11 on my phone, I have TWRP (latest version I think) I went into TWRP and did a factory reset and tried installing my new ROM and then it seemed to finish, I hit reboot system and it went to the first screen you see when you power up the phone and it has been stuck there for over a half hour.
If it helps I have a backup sitting on my computer.
Is there anyway to override the fact that adb is seeing my phone as unauthorized?
PLEASE PLEASE HELP
TIA
EDIT: got it, held power+vol up for around 12 sec, then the second the screen went dark I held power+vol down and got into recovery
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When you are in fastboot and have phone connected to PC hit the power button while Fastboot is highlighted. It should change to Fastboot USB. From here you should be able to get into recovery.
Hope this helps.