[Completed] HTC Sensation bootloop workaround - XDA Assist

Hello, I recently attempted to flash cyanogen 9.1.0 onto my sensation z710a using the HTC all-in-one toolkit by hasoon. I am new to the process, but managed to unlock my bootloader with the application. I flashed CWM recovey as provided by the toolkit, and then booted into recover with that to install superuser and cyanogen from the sd card. In the process I neglected to wipe the previous rom or back it up as everything seemed to be working well so far. When I booted the phone afterward, the htc load screen appeared, then the Cyanogen logo, and everything seemed to be working fine, but it never got past that bootscreen. I tried to flash some of the other recovery mods provided by the toolkit, but couldn't access any of them from hboot afterward, only the original CWM I flashed. I tried flashing the kernel afterward to the stock kernel and since then the phone has just gotten stuck on the HTC boot screen any time I try to power on. I can still access Hboot, and the CWM recovery so I'm hoping the phone isn't completely wrecked, but I've hit a wall for options on how to get it functional again.
My phone is an HTC Sensation z710a with Virginmobile Canada
hboot 1.27
unlocked with s-on
Any direction in what steps I can take to either get Cyanogen working or find a stock rom to flash if that will help get past the bootloop would be amazing.

Hi, thank you fro using XDA Assist. You'll probably have to return to stock and start over. See if this helps you, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1848804&page=6

jd1639 said:
Hi, thank you fro using XDA Assist. You'll probably have to return to stock and start over. See if this helps you, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1848804&page=6
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Firstly, I'd really like to thank you for your response, this is horribly frustrating and having any guidance at all helps a lot.
I started by visiting your recommended thread and reading through that a bit. It looked like I wanted a copy of my stock rom to flash.
First I found out my CID is BM___001
Then that my software version is 3.32.666.53
I tried to find a RUU based on that and had success finding the rom.zip for it, but not the executable, which I'm not sure I'll be able to flash properly on it's own with the bootloop still occurring, but that's my next step. Should I be formatting the system and recovery partitions before re flashing a recovery like 4ext instead of CWM which I had before? what do you recommend in regard to recoveries?

thebinturong said:
Firstly, I'd really like to thank you for your response, this is horribly frustrating and having any guidance at all helps a lot.
I started by visiting your recommended thread and reading through that a bit. It looked like I wanted a copy of my stock rom to flash.
First I found out my CID is BM___001
Then that my software version is 3.32.666.53
I tried to find a RUU based on that and had success finding the rom.zip for it, but not the executable, which I'm not sure I'll be able to flash properly on it's own with the bootloop still occurring, but that's my next step. Should I be formatting the system and recovery partitions before re flashing a recovery like 4ext instead of CWM which I had before? what do you recommend in regard to recoveries?
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Our mission on XDA Assist is to get you to the right place to get help. We are not experts on all devices. So it's best to ask in the link I gave you. But don't format any of your partitions. Android is not quite like your computer. Formatting partitions can brick your device if you don't really know what you're doing.
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jd1639 said:
Our mission on XDA Assist is to get you to the right place to get help. We are not experts on all devices. So it's best to ask in the link I gave you. But don't format any of your partitions. Android is not quite like your computer. Formatting partitions can brick your device if you don't really know what you're doing.
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Okay thanks, I'll try that forum, I appreciate the help!

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rom/root problem

Hi. Today I got my Desire S.
I rooted it using a tool called unlock root: http://www.unlockroot.com/
then I installed rom manager, and installed clockworkmod recovery.
Next I booted into recovery and wiped everything, but now no matter what rom im trying to install, it will just show the HTC boot screen when starting the phone, and nothing more happens.
Does anyone have a suggestion how to solve the problem?
'UnlockRoot'? Have a look at this website and you might consider better ways of rooting your phone, such as following the recommended procedures listed in many places on XDA
http://lifehacker.com/5873745/unlock-root-roots-nearly-250-android-devices-in-one-click
Also, how is this a 'Development' question? This should be in the 'General' or 'Q&A' forum can a mod please move it?
yeah I found out, I tried using htc's way of rooting it http://www.htcdev.com
but that's not possible now, because the bootloader have changed because of that unlock tool, and now htc dev won't accept it when trying to root it.
I guess i just broke my phone , and i can't unroot it, because that unlocktool require that i got usb debugging enabled, witch i can't in clockworkmod :S.
sorry for posting in the wrong section, please move it.
maybe it would be possible if I had a clockworkmod backup for desire S. If this works, I would be extremly glad, if someone could take a backup with clockworkmod, and upload it
...Is your phone S-OFF ?
Maybe it is a stupid question, but I doubt you can successfully install a custom ROM with a S-ON phone
I guess your phone is still S-ON so you need to flash the boot.img from any rom.zip you want to use manually through fastboot.
spymare said:
Hi. Today I got my Desire S.
I rooted it using a tool called unlock root: http://www.unlockroot.com/
then I installed rom manager, and installed clockworkmod recovery.
Next I booted into recovery and wiped everything, but now no matter what rom im trying to install, it will just show the HTC boot screen when starting the phone, and nothing more happens.
Does anyone have a suggestion how to solve the problem?
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hey budd i feel your pain on this as i Myself is new to the desire s android side of things after coming from zte blade but there is an easier way for you to do thing which would be to first use the ruu that should be on android 2.1 which in turn would bring the bootloader down so its possible for revolutionary to do the rest for you after this you shouldnt have any problems should you need assistance i am more than happy to help
btw the link to the ruu for 2.1 is here http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bra...3.00.32U_5.09.00.20_release_140022_signed.exe after a update using this use revolutionary which can be found in the main thread of the desire s forum
spymare said:
yeah I found out, I tried using htc's way of rooting it http://www.htcdev.com
but that's not possible now, because the bootloader have changed because of that unlock tool, and now htc dev won't accept it when trying to root it.
I guess i just broke my phone , and i can't unroot it, because that unlocktool require that i got usb debugging enabled, witch i can't in clockworkmod :S.
sorry for posting in the wrong section, please move it.
maybe it would be possible if I had a clockworkmod backup for desire S. If this works, I would be extremly glad, if someone could take a backup with clockworkmod, and upload it
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If you ''unlock'' your bootloader
when you flash rom.zip from recovery, the boot.img won't be flash in.
you have you take out the boot.img from your rom,and then flash it from fastboot.
when you enter the fastboot
type the following in adb
fastboot flash boot boot.img
now you can boot your phone hope you success
tonks22 said:
hey budd i feel your pain on this as i Myself is new to the desire s android side of things after coming from zte blade but there is an easier way for you to do thing which would be to first use the ruu that should be on android 2.1 which in turn would bring the bootloader down so its possible for revolutionary to do the rest for you after this you shouldnt have any problems should you need assistance i am more than happy to help
btw the link to the ruu for 2.1 is here http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bra...3.00.32U_5.09.00.20_release_140022_signed.exe after a update using this use revolutionary which can be found in the main thread of the desire s forum
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Dont flash this! This one is meant for 'bravo' which is the normal desire!
Flash an ruu for SAGA. The Desire S!
Sent from my HTC Desire S
djpbx said:
Dont flash this! This one is meant for 'bravo' which is the normal desire!
Flash an ruu for SAGA. The Desire S!
Sent from my HTC Desire S
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whoops my bad was like 2am in the morning the correct 1 is
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...5AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199890_signed.exe
If you ''unlock'' your bootloader
when you flash rom.zip from recovery, the boot.img won't be flash in.
you have you take out the boot.img from your rom,and then flash it from fastboot.
when you enter the fastboot
type the following in adb
fastboot flash boot boot.img
now you can boot your phone hope you success
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Solved my problem, thanks alot

Complete noob to rooting and confused

Right, so after growing bored with using the stock Sense ROM, I've decided to try rooting my phone for the first time ever. And I literally have no idea what I'm doing. The phone is unlocked using HTCdev. The HBoot version is 1.27.0000, so the Revolutionary way of doing things isn't going to work for me. I've had a look at the Juopunutbear way of achieving S-Off, but here is where I've hit a brick wall. It says my phone must be rooted, but that's what I'm trying to do. Can somebody please help, as I literally have no idea what I'm doing. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
rooting
Hi before you start get good instructions for your device
I know xda has wonderful instructions for your h boot, so does HTC sensation forums. What I did was PRINT out the instructions so I would have them in front of me because you do NOT want to miss ANY steps. For me it was just easier to have instructions In hand. Follow those instructions to a tee! They will walk you through EVERY STEP!if you follow the instructions you will do just fine and be happily rooted. Take my advice and print the instructions because it makes it a lot easier to remember if you look in rooting you should find EVERYTHING you need RIGHT there! I do wish you the very best and I'm sure you will do very well and be rooted in no time! Just make sure to follow the instructions.Good Luck and please let us know how it goes, OK ?
I would start by relocking your bootloader using the Toolkit in the Development section, then follow the guide below to do the rest:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
Sent from my Galnet infected Sensation 4G
Are u soff i have easyest way to root
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I have a noon question too! I rooted my phone using the htc dev tool so I'm using the rooted apps now! I tried to install a custom Rom after rooting it and it was stock on bootloader! Lucky me I did a nandroid back up and fix it, so I don't know what agent wrong! And what's s-off?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA
Kancur0 said:
I have a noon question too! I rooted my phone using the htc dev tool so I'm using the rooted apps now! I tried to install a custom Rom after rooting it and it was stock on bootloader! Lucky me I did a nandroid back up and fix it, so I don't know what agent wrong! And what's s-off?
Eck
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA
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You need to go to this thread as it will help you understand what you need to do.
There's gotta be an easier way
I haven't been able to root either. I'd love a custom rom but I only have a Mac so I can't get s-off even... There's got to be a better way.
joeman55 said:
I haven't been able to root either. I'd love a custom rom but I only have a Mac so I can't get s-off even... There's got to be a better way.
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The SDK has a version for Mac users. All you have to do is flash the recovery via fast boot, then you can root very easily by downloading Super User or SuperSU and installing them. I personally suggest SuperSU. Then you will need to download and install BusyBox. If you want to check and see if you have root just download and install Root Checker.
Much easier than that...
Once recovery is flashed via fast boot, you can just flash a rooted rom and it will root the phone. This means u don't need to bother with flashing busybox, supersu etc
Sent from my Sensation using XDA
please help, I'm really wanting an ICS rom now
fredcorp6 said:
Much easier than that...
Once recovery is flashed via fast boot, you can just flash a rooted rom and it will root the phone. This means u don't need to bother with flashing busybox, supersu etc
Sent from my Sensation using XDA
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So I downloaded the file to my mac from that SDK link, and there just aren't a whole lot of directions, I'm not sure what to do next. If any of you geniuses could help, I'd be very thankful!
joeman55 said:
So I downloaded the file to my mac from that SDK link, and there just aren't a whole lot of directions, I'm not sure what to do next. If any of you geniuses could help, I'd be very thankful!
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Copy the .zip file you downloaded to your SD card, boot into your recovery, select install from SD card, find the .zip file and select it, then just let it finish and reboot.
T-Macgnolia said:
Copy the .zip file you downloaded to your SD card, boot into your recovery, select install from SD card, find the .zip file and select it, then just let it finish and reboot.
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Sorry for the noob questions... But when I boot into the boot-loader I can't seem to find an install from SD card option. I appreciate your help.
joeman55 said:
Sorry for the noob questions... But when I boot into the boot-loader I can't seem to find an install from SD card option. I appreciate your help.
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When you boot to the Hboot screen, after the booloader runs a check for a PM58IMG.zip on the root of your SD card. You should see a a couple of options, you want to select recover. But only select recovery if you have flashed a custom recovery already, the stock recovery will not flash a custom ROM so booting into it is almost useless. Anyway, once you are in recovery you should see a option that says install from SD card, again a stock recovery does not have this option.
T-Macgnolia said:
When you boot to the Hboot screen, after the booloader runs a check for a PM58IMG.zip on the root of your SD card. You should see a a couple of options, you want to select recover. But only select recovery if you have flashed a custom recovery already, the stock recovery will not flash a custom ROM so booting into it is almost useless. Anyway, once you are in recovery you should see a option that says install from SD card, again a stock recovery does not have this option.
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Oh awesome! How do I get a custom recovery?
I agree on printing the instructions that are a plenty in this forums -
I am an android noob having my sensation stock battery rom and all was a bit disappointing coming from iThings... however upon reading up and checking all threads from helpful XDA members... im FREE!
Rooted and updated to custom ARHD rom all thanks to the wonderful folks here at XDA Devs.
Kudos!
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joeman55 said:
Oh awesome! How do I get a custom recovery?
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if you have a stock ROM - it doesnt have the Recovery needed to modify your phone..
whereas if you are already rooted - it has the additional recovery software.
check and search the threads how to install Recovery like 4EXT, Clockwork Modz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472298
jcblued said:
I agree on printing the instructions that are a plenty in this forums -
I am an android noob having my sensation stock battery rom and all was a bit disappointing coming from iThings... however upon reading up and checking all threads from helpful XDA members... im FREE!
Rooted and updated to custom ARHD rom all thanks to the wonderful folks here at XDA Devs.
Kudos!
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if you have a stock ROM - it doesnt have the Recovery needed to modify your phone..
whereas if you are already rooted - it has the additional recovery software.
check and search the threads how to install Recovery like 4EXT, Clockwork Modz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472298
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See, I checked out the link, and I searched all night last night. In order to flash a custom recovery, the phone needs to be rooted. And it looks like the only way to do that is through the revolutionary website which requires either Windows or Linux, which takes me back to my original problem, I have a Mac. Guys, thank you so much for your help though. I had my hopes up for a minute there ;-)
joeman55 said:
See, I checked out the link, and I searched all night last night. In order to flash a custom recovery, the phone needs to be rooted. And it looks like the only way to do that is through the revolutionary website which requires either Windows or Linux, which takes me back to my original problem, I have a Mac. Guys, thank you so much for your help though. I had my hopes up for a minute there ;-)
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I suggest you borrow the use of a Windows PC from someone if you can. Or you can always try to run Windows in Boot Camp on your Mac.
are you s-off?
if you are s-off you can get recovery installed using adb - which can be installed on mac.
sorry kinda confused where u actually are the thread is a bit all over the place lol
fredcorp6 said:
are you s-off?
if you are s-off you can get recovery installed using adb - which can be installed on mac.
sorry kinda confused where u actually are the thread is a bit all over the place lol
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No, I understand haha. I'm still S-on. You need a pc to get s-off and I just don't have access to one :-(

Phone Stuck (please help)

Hey guys can someone please help me. I was in the middle of trying to flash clean rom, I rebooted the phone and now Im stuck at the Htc screen. I need urgent help. This comes at the time I was giving the phone to my wife. I can get back to the HBOOT screen but Im lost from their. I have tried just going back to recovery but nothing seems to work.
Maybe try reflashing a recovery through the use of ADB. Or you could try to RUU back to stock. But that will put you back to square 1 as far as rooting and BL unlocking
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Could you possibly point me to some directions, Im using a mac so a guide would be useful
cvv1984 said:
Could you possibly point me to some directions, Im using a mac so a guide would be useful
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Aaah a Mac. Just press the big green Easy button. If that does not work wait for Steve Jobs to speak from the grave to the folks at Apple what the customers are allowed to do.
On a more serious note if you are unlocked and can get to hboot re flash twrp then boot in recovery and reflash cleanrom
cvv1984 said:
Could you possibly point me to some directions, Im using a mac so a guide would be useful
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Download TWRP. Download virtubox for Mac. Download a Windows ISO. Setup the Windows virtual machine using virtubox and the ISO. Download the android SDK, SDK tools and JDK in Windows and set your PATH in environmental variables. Run ADB and fastboot flash recovery. This is the jist of it. Sorry I'm on my phone and to lazy to Google virtubox (I think that's what it's called) Hope this helps!
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I had this issue last night. Turned out the download of the ROM was bad, check the MD5 of the download.
I just got a new download, went into recovery and mounted my SD card, copied the complete and good version of the ROM, and reflashed. I also only flashed the ROM, let the phone reboot before applying any CleanMODS (if you are using those).
Good luck
kp1321 said:
I had this issue last night. Turned out the download of the ROM was bad, check the MD5 of the download.
I just got a new download, went into recovery and mounted my SD card, copied the complete and good version of the ROM, and reflashed. I also only flashed the ROM, let the phone reboot before applying any CleanMODS (if you are using those).
Good luck
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Thanks for the help, your method would help but I cant seem to get into recovery. I can only get back to the hboot screen.
you can actually run adb and fastboot on a mac from terminal. it's actually not hard at all and can be easier to access than on windows sometimes. google "adb on mac", tons of tutorials, worked for me. so just download twrp and try to reflash that using fastboot if youre BL is unlocked. If it doesn't work then you'll have to ruu which can only be done on windows.
cvv1984 said:
Thanks for the help, your method would help but I cant seem to get into recovery. I can only get back to the hboot screen.
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Flash a recovery again.
fastboot flash recovery *recovery name*. img
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cvv1984 said:
Thanks for the help, your method would help but I cant seem to get into recovery. I can only get back to the hboot screen.
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I thought so too...here was what I did (hopefully you already got past this)
Hold down the power button, the soft keys will flash a bunch and then the screen will go back. Hold the volume down button, should go to the bootloader screen. You can select the recovery from this option and mine booted into TWRP at that point. I was able to mount the SD card, replace the ROM file, and then reflash.
Hope that works, otherwise the other options should as well.

[Q] Htc one s telus RUU?

I made the mistake of running a cm10 rom on my htc one s that didnt work on i so now i can only access TWRP and my phones bootloader from my One S so I'm trying to find my phone's stock RUU but there are so many out there! Can anyone tell me how to find one? Or another way to get into my phone using another ROM? My phone is rooted with Twrp recovery, Unlocked bootloader obviously and S-on. All my phone does is show the htc bootscreen and then go black but I can still enter bootloader and the TWRP menu and I can connect it to my computer fine. Any help would be VERY greatly appreciated!
IsaacDroid said:
I made the mistake of running a cm10 rom on my htc one s that didnt work on i so now i can only access TWRP and my phones bootloader from my One S so I'm trying to find my phone's stock RUU but there are so many out there! Can anyone tell me how to find one? Or another way to get into my phone using another ROM? My phone is rooted with Twrp recovery, Unlocked bootloader obviously and S-on. All my phone does is show the htc bootscreen and then go black but I can still enter bootloader and the TWRP menu and I can connect it to my computer fine. Any help would be VERY greatly appreciated!
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Don't give up. I had the same issue with my telus One S. I think I fixed it by falshing boot image separately and after flashing CM10. I believe this happens if the phone is rooted but is in S-ON mode, whatever that means. I remember it really gave me a hard time and as I was going to give up i flashed the boot image and it worked. You have to do it through a command window on your PC. There should be an all-in-one tool in this forum somewhere to simplify the steps a bit. Good luck!
Thanks!
new_convert said:
Don't give up. I had the same issue with my telus One S. I think I fixed it by falshing boot image separately and after flashing CM10. I believe this happens if the phone is rooted but is in S-ON mode, whatever that means. I remember it really gave me a hard time and as I was going to give up i flashed the boot image and it worked. You have to do it through a command window on your PC. There should be an all-in-one tool in this forum somewhere to simplify the steps a bit. Good luck!
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Thank you very much! Could you tell me what boot image you flashed and maybe how to get it and also how you flashed it? Thank you so much for the response!
IsaacDroid said:
Thank you very much! Could you tell me what boot image you flashed and maybe how to get it and also how you flashed it? Thank you so much for the response!
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It is in the zip file that you download to flash, i.e. your new ROM. So when you download CM10, open the zip file. BOOT.IMG will be there. Extract it and flash it to your phone. I believe everything was in One_S_All-In-One_Kit_v3.4. Look it up in the forum and it has all the tools you need. I admit that it was a pain and nothing was straight forward. I always root my android devices and install new ROMs. But HTC One S was particularly tricky.
Good luck!
Hello there! Fellow HTC One S user here! Don't give up on CM10! It's way better than stock on your one S! What you need to remember is that HBoot versions higher than 1.09 can't flash the boot while installing the rom, so you need to do that after flashing a rom! The boot for your version is going to be included in the rom's zip file. Look for the boot.img file located in the zip file's root. Every rom should have this. Place this boot.img file in the kernel folder of the One S all in one kit and flash it. You should be good to after that!
Don't hesitate to ask for more help if needed!
Simon
seoman81 said:
Hello there! Fellow HTC One S user here! Don't give up on CM10! It's way better than stock on your one S! What you need to remember is that HBoot versions higher than 1.09 can't flash the boot while installing the rom, so you need to do that after flashing a rom! The boot for your version is going to be included in the rom's zip file. Look for the boot.img file located in the zip file's root. Every rom should have this. Place this boot.img file in the kernel folder of the One S all in one kit and flash it. You should be good to after that!
Don't hesitate to ask for more help if needed!
Simon
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When I try to flash a ROM through fastboot it sends it fine but then it says: FAILED (remote: not allowed), and I tried pushing the ROM with adb but when I tried to put it on the sdcard, it said permission denied, do you know why? I am S-ON, would that be a problem? Thanks!

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:
Code:
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
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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
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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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