Hi guys.
After two weeks without wifi, yesterday, my phone decide to update about 20 apps from market. When Beautiful Widgets were downloading, phone suddenly froze and I had to remove my battery after 10 minutes. When it booted again, Angry Birds started to update and phone froze again. So I removed my battery once again and when it booted up, I turned my net connection offline to prevent downloading. As soon as I did so, I canceled all market downloads and turned connection online again. Market started updating on its own and phone froze during night.
So I decided to removed battery once again this morning and when I put it back in, put it back in, phone froze after "Quietly Brilliant" logo with black screen.
It was suitable for factory reset from bootloader. So I did factory reset and same story repeated, except for this, it was a loading loop, HTC Quietly Brilliant and sound which comes with it over and over again.
So in the end, I tried to do the "recovery" option which did no good and again factory reset, but this time, bootloader froze and nothing happened. This is final state of my phone.
So after boring story, there is a question. Is there any way I can do software flash / reset without phone (via USB etc?) before I send it back to HTC for repair?
Device is S ON and never been rooted. I also removed SIM and memory card with no effect.
Thanks a lot!
You should take hope from the fact that you are able to still enter bootloader and perform full reset
Also the fact that you are still s-on means that you should still be covered under warranty
I believe that you should be able to re flash your original rom via your pc using RUU, check to see if your original is in the rom sticky thread within the dev section and if so start downloading
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You may well have a hardware problem, in which case I would advise you send it for repair rather than trying to root and invalidating your warranty.
Hey, thx for reply.
I have no experiences in this but I guess I only need to know this things:
RUU - Stands for ROM Upgrade Utility. What soft should I use?
Also, all I can see in bootloader is following:
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-0.98.0000
RADIO-38.03.02.11_M
eMMC-boot
Mar 10 2011,14:58:38 (<wtf?)
and then just classic boot menu with options like FASTBOOT etc.
Therefore I cant figure out, which ROM is mine in that thread. Also, is there any option to flash ROM from memory card? Does it have to be signed?
Only limitation is warranty which I dont wanna lose. Thx.
InfernalByte said:
You may well have a hardware problem, in which case I would advise you send it for repair rather than trying to root and invalidating your warranty.
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See the statement above, I will not do anything to invalidate the warranty.
Yesterday, after attempting the "Update all" for the first time (well, not exactly) the phone froze just as yours did & started encountering the same issues. After coming here to seek assistance, this thread was the first I laid eyes upon.
My case in somewhat more detail, after freezing during the "Update all", I performed a soft reset by removing the battery as well, booted up fine, but as soon as everything was loaded the market tried to continue where it left off (which is updating Opera Mobile @ 98%) and the result was another freeze. I was quickly able to deduct that the update were to be the issue & turned off connectivity. Now, at the present state, Opera Mobile update is still under notifications (at 98% complete but "paused"), as soon as I re-enable either WiFi or 3G it continues & crashes. I cleared all caches & reset all Market applications & rebooted to no avail.
Hard reset was next on my list, but see-ing how the situation got worse for your device hereafter, I am holding it off for now. Is it possible to have market updates, that are ongoing, canceled? Bear in mind that I cant enter Market since it requires connectivity.
Weird stuff.
Yes, when your phone is turned on (connection on), open your Market app, press menu button and select "My apps". You should see all downloading apps now. Hold your finger on each and wait until menu pops up. Select cancel download. You have to be quick tho.
If I were you, I would not do any software reset, my phone is pretty much bricked now, as it freezes on nearly every bootloader option.
Numline1 said:
Yes, when your phone is turned on (connection on), open your Market app, press menu button and select "My apps". You should see all downloading apps now. Hold your finger on each and wait until menu pops up. Select cancel download. You have to be quick tho.
If I were you, I would not do any software reset, my phone is pretty much bricked now, as it freezes on nearly every bootloader option.
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Thanks! That did the trick, was able to remove everything due to be updated.
Strangely, though, I wasn't able to finish loading the market before it resumed the Opera update. This time, however, instead of crashing it was able to complete it (contrary to the last 10+ attempts yesterday), thus there is a chance it wouldn't have crashed at all. In any case, keeping distance from the Market seems like a valid idea for now.
Reading your thread might've helped to avoid my device turning into a brick, I appreciate it.
Well, update to my current status:
Im still in hboot. Device was recognized as "Android 1.0" in my Windows, so I had to install ADB driver. It is now connected as Android Composite ADB Interface".
I can't get any further, since RUU says my phone is not connected to PC.
Any advices please?
PS: When I choose "Recovery" in hboot, it shows HTC logo for a while, then icon of mobile phone with green sign shows and after few secs, screen turns off and phone vibrate for a few times and disconnects from PC.
//When I connect it in Fastboot, it shows as "MyHTC" in Windows.
Numline1 said:
PS: When I choose "Recovery" in hboot, it shows HTC logo for a while, then icon of mobile phone with green sign shows and after few secs, screen turns off and phone vibrate for a few times and disconnects from PC.
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Afraid, that I'm well out of my depth with all that, hopefully someone else with more knowledge will post...or else it's warranty return. best of luck
Np, thx for trying, maybe someone else will know
//Update: In Fastboot mode, my device is recognized by RUU!!! Trying to update right now!!!
As you've never been rooted or S-off, and the phone has developed its own fault. I'd return it!
Well, so far, no luck. RUU stuck at "Rebooting to bootloader" and phone is frozen.
InfernalByte said:
As you've never been rooted or S-off, and the phone has developed its own fault. I'd return it!
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Im willing to do that first thing tommorow, but Im trying to fix it today, as it is sunday and I have day off.
Numline1 said:
Well, so far, no luck. RUU stuck at "Rebooting to bootloader" and phone is frozen.
Im willing to do that first thing tommorow, but Im trying to fix it today, as it is sunday and I have day off.
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Good luck
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Ok, update about my phone so far:
RUU was not sucessful, for some reason there's still freeze in certain HBOOT actions, like when I select "Factory reset" or when RUU is trying to get phone from fastboot to bootloader.
So I extracted rom.zip from my RUU and now I'm backing up my memory card using my old phone. I'm willing to rename it to update.zip and try to flash it.
Any advices about this?
Numline1 said:
Ok, update about my phone so far:
RUU was not sucessful, for some reason there's still freeze in certain HBOOT actions, like when I select "Factory reset" or when RUU is trying to get phone from fastboot to bootloader.
So I extracted rom.zip from my RUU and now I'm backing up my memory card using my old phone. I'm willing to rename it to update.zip and try to flash it.
Any advices about this?
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Update.zip will not work, if your determined to try something push a new SPL via fastboot commander, even thought your not S-off if things aren't working maybe the CID check wont check either.
Below will only work if your phone is not branded or you have a goldcard.
Alternatively unzip your RUU on your PC in one of the files called {squigly brackets and a lot of numbers673652435364849483763} you'll find a .zip called rom.zip rename this PB99IMG and put the file into the root directory of your SD card, and boot into Hboot. Just answer yes to any questions. This is the way HTC Tech folk themselves serve an RUU.
Yea, I actually extracted it using advanced system monitor from microsoft, this file was in temp folder. That's where my rom.zip was. Anyway, isn't it PB88IMG.zip? I think DS is checking for this one. Thx.
//Edit: I mean PB88IMG.img
//Edit2: It's PG88IMG.zip It's now updating, don't know if it works yet, still at BOOTLOADER update with status "Updating".
Ok, I think this is my last post, since I no longer know what else to do. When Im trying to flash PG88IMG, it stops at [1]BOOTLOADER - Updating.
For more than one hour. There's something wrong with it and I will claim my warranty, which will be funny, since Im in Slovakia, phone was bought from Amazon with 3 year warranty from SquareTrade and they claim, they may just return money in some cases, which will result in buying a new phone = more than 2 weeks...
Numline1 said:
they may just return money in some cases, which will result in buying a new phone = more than 2 weeks...
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O, bugger!
question is if they do give you the money, will you buy another DS? and if not what would you consider instead? Sensation?
Yea, can't say yet, since I don't know. I just discovered, there may be a chance they will cover my repair costs when I email them all the service documentation from service center.
But if they do, I'd like to stay with HTC, I paid something about 377L for the phone, so I may buy something better now.
Anyway, thanks a lot for help guys, if you come with some new ideas about how to fix it, do not hesitate to tell me I'll be sending it to them first thing tommorow.
Hello guys,
Long time reader, first time poster over here.
I'm having a serious problem and wouldn't bother you with it, but i've scrolled through hundreds of forumposts, tried serveral things but haven't find the solution yet. (because the problems in those posts are only a part of my problem :s)
So I hope, by posting and explaining it myself, you guys can help me fixing my HTC One S (wouldn't want to lose it this way -.- )
Here it goes: my phone has been rooted for more than a year now, i've used several ROMs, been through some problems but no big deal and was able to solve them myself).
A couple of months ago, I decided to try the newest Cyanogen (11) mod based on Android 4.4, needed a new recovery but got it installed and working fine.
After a while I installed a Nightly update, and after that the trouble started and went from bad to worse to nearly death
first of all the phone kept rebooting at total random moments, enormously frustrating!
so I decided to do another update, after this update, I wasn't able to turn my Wi-Fi on
No big deal i thought, but after a while it began to annoy me, so another Nightly update was incoming
After this update **** really got messy, the message "com.android.systemui has stopped" kept popping up and the only thing I could do was click OK, then it popped back up -> OK -> and so on and so on
so my phone was as good as useless at this point
At this point I've had it with this ROM, so I put another one on my internal SD card (via coupling with my PC): Beanstalk 4.4 STABLE
This new ROM actually was installed as an update of the previous one, so the damned message "com.android.systemui has stopped" was still popping up constantly.
At that point I totally had it with 4.4 and decided to put an older ROM on it with which i've had had a good experience.
And that's where **** got fcked up:
When I go into recovery (CMW 6.0.4.5) and want to access my internal storage, it says "E: can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
So I wanted to connect to my pc to flash a new ROM to my device using Fastboot, but my pc isn't recognizing my phone and neither is Fastboot.
In fastboot, when I try "fastboot device" it keeps searching and doesn't find my device.
My PC however sees my phone, cause I hear the usbconnection sound when they're coupled, but it isn't showing up as a Removable Storage Device.
So to summarize:
once my phone is booted, i can't do anything apart from clicking OK on the "com.android.systemui has stopped" alert
in recovery, i can't mount my internal storage
when 'connected' to the PC, the PC and fastboot can't detect the device.
Other info:
i've tried it on a pc running W7 and W8
phone is HTC One S S4
I hope you guys can help me out here!
PC connection
DieterW91 said:
Hello guys,
Long time reader, first time poster over here.
I'm having a serious problem and wouldn't bother you with it, but i've scrolled through hundreds of forumposts, tried serveral things but haven't find the solution yet. (because the problems in those posts are only a part of my problem :s)
So I hope, by posting and explaining it myself, you guys can help me fixing my HTC One S (wouldn't want to lose it this way -.- )
Here it goes: my phone has been rooted for more than a year now, i've used several ROMs, been through some problems but no big deal and was able to solve them myself).
A couple of months ago, I decided to try the newest Cyanogen (11) mod based on Android 4.4, needed a new recovery but got it installed and working fine.
After a while I installed a Nightly update, and after that the trouble started and went from bad to worse to nearly death
first of all the phone kept rebooting at total random moments, enormously frustrating!
so I decided to do another update, after this update, I wasn't able to turn my Wi-Fi on
No big deal i thought, but after a while it began to annoy me, so another Nightly update was incoming
After this update **** really got messy, the message "com.android.systemui has stopped" kept popping up and the only thing I could do was click OK, then it popped back up -> OK -> and so on and so on
so my phone was as good as useless at this point
At this point I've had it with this ROM, so I put another one on my internal SD card (via coupling with my PC): Beanstalk 4.4 STABLE
This new ROM actually was installed as an update of the previous one, so the damned message "com.android.systemui has stopped" was still popping up constantly.
At that point I totally had it with 4.4 and decided to put an older ROM on it with which i've had had a good experience.
And that's where **** got fcked up:
When I go into recovery (CMW 6.0.4.5) and want to access my internal storage, it says "E: can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
So I wanted to connect to my pc to flash a new ROM to my device using Fastboot, but my pc isn't recognizing my phone and neither is Fastboot.
In fastboot, when I try "fastboot device" it keeps searching and doesn't find my device.
My PC however sees my phone, cause I hear the usbconnection sound when they're coupled, but it isn't showing up as a Removable Storage Device.
So to summarize:
once my phone is booted, i can't do anything apart from clicking OK on the "com.android.systemui has stopped" alert
in recovery, i can't mount my internal storage
when 'connected' to the PC, the PC and fastboot can't detect the device.
Other info:
i've tried it on a pc running W7 and W8
phone is HTC One S S4
I hope you guys can help me out here!
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I've had success getting a connection to Windows just be using a different USB port, the ones at the back are best. Then at least you get fastboot access...But I also still have the problem with the sdcard, still working on that, trying to figure out a way to fix it from fastboot...
any progress yet rosanna? I was also able to make the connection with my pc, by using the usb ports on the back (thanks for that!). But I haven't been able to mount my sd card yet. I tried with another recovery but that didn't do the trick.
I got into the UI of my current ROM, and then my pc said I needed to format the SD before I could use it.
But I wasn't sure this is a good idea to do in windows.
Anyone know if it is save to format your internal sd card when prompted to do so in windows?
Have a look here
Sent from my ElementalXed One S
Try using a Linux live cd (try Ubuntu). You'll need a blank DVD to burn the iso to. Reboot your computer and see if it recognizes your device (no drivers needed). If it does try a more stable build this time.
benJX said:
Have a look here
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I did read through that thread and tried it.
But i'm not quite sure everything went as plannend.
I even think it went wrong on the first step, flashing back to the stock recovery. This one isn't included in the all in one toolkit right?
So I started searching for one myself (I have an S4 VLE version of the phone) but I haven't downloaded one yet, although I've seen links that bring me to new links and so on and so on, I wasn't quite sure which link to trust.
If you could help me further I would really appreciate it
DieterW91 said:
I did read through that thread and tried it.
But i'm not quite sure everything went as plannend.
I even think it went wrong on the first step, flashing back to the stock recovery. This one isn't included in the all in one toolkit right?
So I started searching for one myself (I have an S4 VLE version of the phone) but I haven't downloaded one yet, although I've seen links that bring me to new links and so on and so on, I wasn't quite sure which link to trust.
If you could help me further I would really appreciate it
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Here you are: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2622663&d=1394422408
You can flash it with the toolkit selecting "Custom recovery".
When you're Storage is back alive and kickin' you can flash a custom revovery again.
My favourites are
TWRP 2.7.0.0 - http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/ville/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-ville.img
and
PhilZ advanced CWM - http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/ville
In my opinion TWRP is easiest to handle and PhilZ has some more features.
DieterW91 said:
I even think it went wrong on the first step, flashing back to the stock recovery. This one isn't included in the all in one toolkit right?
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Another direct link here, I personally flashed it manually trough fastboot, for me the easiest and fastest way to do it. Then proceed to the clear storage and flash your custom recovery (like @LS.xD I recommend TWRP but this is your choice )
THX Guys! :victory:
Thanks to your links to the stockrecovery, my phone is back alive and kicking.
I feared for a while for my phone, but on the other hand I knew the xda community would help me fix it!
1000 times thanks :good::laugh:
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THX Guys! :victory:
Thanks to your links to the stockrecovery, my phone is back alive and kicking.
I feared for a while for my phone, but on the other hand I knew the xda community would help me fix it!
1000 times thanks :good::laugh:
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I might have completely bricked Desire S, so I need some expert advice.
Long story short. Rooted phone long ago, but I cannot remember if it was S on or off. I was running Cyanogenmod 10 I think, with no problems.
However, I thought I would check for an update from settings, choosing any. So it found a nightly update and I said why not. It downloaded the update, restarted and nothing happened.
Since that moment, I cannot start the phone in any mode, normal, recovery or bootloader. I just get the HTC logo then the screen goes black.
I tried plugging it in the laptop, installed adb drivers and everything, thinking that I might be able to flash from Windows. The phone is seen while on with that black screen, however, cannot send any command as it says is offline.
So I am stuck but refuse to think that it might be gone forever
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
foxthemad said:
I might have completely bricked Desire S, so I need some expert advice.
Long story short. Rooted phone long ago, but I cannot remember if it was S on or off. I was running Cyanogenmod 10 I think, with no problems.
However, I thought I would check for an update from settings, choosing any. So it found a nightly update and I said why not. It downloaded the update, restarted and nothing happened.
Since that moment, I cannot start the phone in any mode, normal, recovery or bootloader. I just get the HTC logo then the screen goes black.
I tried plugging it in the laptop, installed adb drivers and everything, thinking that I might be able to flash from Windows. The phone is seen while on with that black screen, however, cannot send any command as it says is offline.
So I am stuck but refuse to think that it might be gone forever
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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Pull the battery out try going into bootloader again.
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You have no idea how many times I did that. The only way to switch off the phone at this state is to take out the battery.
So here is a string of steps I've already been through in trying to save my bricked Nexus 6: [Can't post outside link yet...]
Basically I got the 'your phone is corrupt' message from google and it kept forcibly shutting down. It would not boot up so someone suggested I side load a rescue OTA. At this point recovery existed and I went through all the steps and had it installing, only to fail mid-way through (~52%) and give me a 'read error' on my command prompt. I started the whole process over again just fine and it got to 73% before 'read error' failing again. I thought no big deal, I'll just keep doing this until it gets to 100%. Nope, recovery is gone. I cannot get there anymore. I start into Fastboot mode and scroll to recovery and hit power and it just goes to a new Fastboot screen and keeps flashing every time I try to select it. The Bootloader logs give me a 'failed to validate boot image: ret=-1' message and says 'Boot up failed.'
I can't find a single guide online that doesn't require recovery mode to work. At this point I don't care about my data and just want to get this phone working again before I throw in the towel and pay Motorola $175 for a refurb. I'm just barely over a year too. The Nexus 'expert' gave up and blamed the memory and maybe he is right but I wanted to run this by you guys first. This phone was completely stock and unrooted.
The only reason why I feel there is still a chance is because when I connect USB my computer reads it as an Android Device in Device Manager with 'Android Bootloader Interface' as a sub device. If the computer can read it, isn't there a chance that some kind of software exists that can forcibly load a new bootloader onto this phone without recovery? I'm 'competent' with computers and android phones but I haven't rooted or done any custom stuff in years so I'm at a loss for what's out there.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, even if it's to tell me I'm SOL.
Ok so far I have tried to load a custom recovery but that requires an unlocked bootloader. Then I tried using a toolkit to flash stock as a soft-bricked device but that also requires an unlocked bootloader and I can't unlock the damn bootloader. You know, I thought I was just playing it safe by leaving this phone as-is instead of playing around with it but it looks like I screwed myself by doing so.
Is this the wrong forum for this question?
JQ3 said:
Is this the wrong forum for this question?
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Sorry for the delay
We have a dedicated help section for your device here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help
Ask there to receive help
Good luck