Screwed myself with OTA, help please? - Verizon HTC One (M8)

Well, like some of the others I applied the OTA from Verizon today without thinking....I have S-Off, and a rooted stock rom. So yeah, I did the dumb thing of accepting the OTA. :crying:
The device restarted, and hung at the red Verizon screen. Plugging the phone into my computer I was able to use adb to get into recovery. I did a couple things: 'Cleared cache', then rebooted into recovery, then cleared my data/factory reset. Unfortunately, after the reset, I can't get my device to show up in adb anymore. Not listed under the fastboot devices either.
Anyone have any ideas?

Fixed.
Finally got adb/fastboot to connect again. Was able to flash newest firmware, twrp, and stock 5.0.1 again. Now just gotta reinstall everything O.O

care to share how you got it fixed? Have the same issue and can't get adb to see device

Flash the RUU that dottat made.

andybones said:
Flash the RUU that dottat made.
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Kinda hard to flash anything when you only get a red verizon screen. or when i try to go into recovery i get hboot telling me i have a update, do i want to install and to select yes or no. no matter which choice i make it always goes back to the verizon screen, no options for recovery because its always telling me to choose to update. nothing else.

cmay227 said:
Kinda hard to flash anything when you only get a red verizon screen. or when i try to go into recovery i get hboot telling me i have a update, do i want to install and to select yes or no. no matter which choice i make it always goes back to the verizon screen, no options for recovery because its always telling me to choose to update. nothing else.
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Um, remove your SD card(which sounds like it has a firmware or ruu file on it)?...boot to hboot, run ruu, or boot to recovery and sideload a rom.

andybones said:
Flash the RUU that dottat made.
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santod040 said:
Um, remove your SD card(which sounds like it has a firmware or ruu file on it)?...boot to hboot, run ruu, or boot to recovery and sideload a rom.
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Now i feel stupid. Thanks. It's my wifes phone. and I'm so use to my nexus phones not having sd cards didn't even think of that.

cmay227 said:
Now i feel stupid. Thanks. It's my wifes phone. and I'm so use to my nexus phones not having sd cards didn't even think of that.
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No need to feel stupid, now you know and are therefor smarter now...
Hope that gets it going for you/her again at least. [emoji106]
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[Q] boot loop

Hey I hate having to post this but im stumped. i was running cm7 nightly build 21 and wanted to flash back to stock pd15img. i followed the steps but when i went to update all it did was turn s on. now my mytouch gets to the animated MY logo and loops. i can still get to recovery and i have tried restore my backup but i still get the MY animated boot logo. any help or suggestions? thanks.
Did you revert your recovery back to stock or Clockwork 2.x instead of Clockwork 3.x that CM7 requires?
Genocaust said:
Did you revert your recovery back to stock or Clockwork 2.x instead of Clockwork 3.x that CM7 requires?
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Yep. 2.5.1.2.. I even tried just flashing icedglacier but i still get the animated MYlogo wich continues to loop.
does the phone have to be rooted to fix this? It was prior to flashing the PD15IMG, but like i said when it was done loading the image i clicked update and it just turned s on....
okay so i just made some progress i think. i just flashed icedglacier again and this time it changed the boot logo to the icedglacier boot logo but it still loops.
on the bright side of things i was really tire of seeing the mytouch logo.
theycallmechase said:
Yep. 2.5.1.2.. I even tried just flashing icedglacier but i still get the animated MYlogo wich continues to loop.
does the phone have to be rooted to fix this? It was prior to flashing the PD15IMG, but like i said when it was done loading the image i clicked update and it just turned s on....
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the PD15IMG is a HBoot flashed image. not via Clockwork's Recovery Manager.
What method did you follow to try and unroot your phone.
We kinda need to know what you did in order to fix it.
If you store the PD15IMG onto the root of the SD card and boot into bootloader it should automatically restore everything to a factory spec.
I unrooted my device by downloading the unroot folder and using visionary and the terminl emulator.
I didnt try to flash pd15img through clockworkmod i just put it on the root of my sd card and let the hboot do the rest once it loaded the image it gave me he update option i chose to update and when my phone came back on in hboot i saw s off and now im stuck in boot loop.
I have to get to work but if you think of anything that could help me out trhat would be awesome thanks guys for reading this in the first place
ps now if i try to load the pd15img it will load the image but there is no update opyion
theycallmechase said:
I unrooted my device by downloading the unroot folder and using visionary and the terminl emulator.
I didnt try to flash pd15img through clockworkmod i just put it on the root of my sd card and let the hboot do the rest once it loaded the image it gave me he update option i chose to update and when my phone came back on in hboot i saw s off and now im stuck in boot loop.
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Try doing this. Esp. if you did the ./gfree deal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863899
I also made this mistake, I had to reflash a cm7 rom or miui, downgrade the recovery to 2.5.x (could also adb push) and from there went back to stock and rerooted and flashed ice glacier.
well im downloading sdk now. my internet is super slow.
theycallmechase said:
well im downloading sdk now. my internet is super slow.
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you are just wanting the ADB you can download and install the drivers for just that. Takes like 5 mins to get up and running.
neidlinger said:
you are just wanting the ADB you can download and install the drivers for just that. Takes like 5 mins to get up and running.
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cool drivers are installed. so do i just need to be hboot to use the drivers? or is there some sort a software i need?
theycallmechase said:
cool drivers are installed. so do i just need to be hboot to use the drivers? or is there some sort a software i need?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928370&page=2
neidlinger said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928370&page=2
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hahaha thanks bro, love the "(great for noobs)" in the title of the thread. will try as soon as possible.
after reading the guide i have one problem.
5. On your phone go to Settings/Applications/Development and make sure USB debugging is ON and plug it in via the usb..
any suggestions??
theycallmechase said:
hahaha thanks bro, love the "(great for noobs)" in the title of the thread. will try as soon as possible.
after reading the guide i have one problem.
5. On your phone go to Settings/Applications/Development and make sure USB debugging is ON and plug it in via the usb..
any suggestions??
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Being that you have s=on it's going to be fairly difficult. [sidenote] i still cannot believe the PD15IMG didn't work for you [/sidenote]. but you can try and use the fastboot commands.If s=off you could load a separate recovery image and flash a ROM to get you up and running.
yeah, i knew this would happen to me. when i try to adb in it dosent show my device. i have a thing with best buy where they will mail it in to htc to have it fixed but im not sure since i modded the phone.
theycallmechase said:
yeah, i knew this would happen to me. when i try to adb in it dosent show my device. i have a thing with best buy where they will mail it in to htc to have it fixed but im not sure since i modded the phone.
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you have to use
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ok so adb devices gave me a list of devices wich was none.
fastboot devices did not do anything for me.
wait a minute.... it did show something a second time it says sh0bt602653 fastboot....
Ok, that means fastboot has detected your phone. You can flash individual system.img, recovery.img, etc directly from fastboot.
so what do i flash? what commands do i need to use.
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No ROM, No Recovery, No backup.

I posted in the Q&A of the general One X forum and they told me to post my problem here.
I tried flashing CM10 mod on my One X and because I am a noob I omitted to do a backup of my phone when I wiped everything. I then proceeded as usual, flashed the boot.img then opened the zip to install CM10, then flashed boot.img again but it didnt work.
I don't know how but after that I successfully messed up my phone. I have no ROM, Lost TWRP, have no backup and the only thing I can use is Fastboot and Bootloader.
My phone lo longer appears on my computer so I cannot move files onto it.
I relocked my phone and flashed all the RUU's that I could find. Used the ARUwizard to try the PJ83IMG to no avail.
Every answer I found on the internet did not work so far and I'm getting desperate. Nothing seems to work. Is there a solution?
PS: Is it just me or is the rogers HTC One X harder and more complicated to mod than other versions of the phone? If I were to buy a new phone which one should I buy?
PPS: Buying a new phone is my last option. I do not want to resort to that. I will if I have to.
This is why 1 click unlocks are so bad for the community. People mindlessly unlock their phones and screw it up.
As for your situation, if you run a RUU successfully but your phone still won't boot then you're probably SOL. Go ask Niceppl and see if he can help you.
And no, Rogers is the easiest to mod. HTCDev supports Rogers HOX bootloader unlock. After that, the rest is the same.
thedauntlessone said:
This is why 1 click unlocks are so bad for the community. People mindlessly unlock their phones and screw it up.
As for your situation, if you run a RUU successfully but your phone still won't boot then you're probably SOL. Go ask Niceppl and see if he can help you.
And no, Rogers is the easiest to mod. HTCDev supports Rogers HOX bootloader unlock. After that, the rest is the same.
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Everytime I try an RUU it says I have the wrong RUU for the device... I tried all of them that I could download. Do I need to do anything else before flashing the RUU maybe?
You didn't SuperCID which is essential for ATT RUU. Right now you basically have a phone with Rogers ID trying to install ATT RUU so it fails.
If you can't get 1.73 rogers RUU working then I have no clue what you can do.
Can you unlock the phone still from fastboot?
If you can have tried to reflash twrp from fastboot?
If it works you may be able to mount the sd card from twrp and move rom to your sd card and flash it.
Just throwing out some ideas since nothing you have tried has worked so far.
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E.Cadro said:
Can you unlock the phone still from fastboot?
If you can have tried to reflash twrp from fastboot?
If it works you may be able to mount the sd card from twrp and move rom to your sd card and flash it.
Just throwing out some ideas since nothing you have tried has worked so far.
Sent from my Nocturnalized Beast
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I cannot mount my virtual sd card to my computer.
I tried to mount my system in TWRP but on my computer it says I cant access it and I need to format it.
Should I format it or will that indefinitely kill my phone.
LimesAreOranges said:
I cannot mount my virtual sd card to my computer.
I tried to mount my system in TWRP but on my computer it says I cant access it and I need to format it.
Should I format it or will that indefinitely kill my phone.
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Hmm. That sounds like it got corrupted, which may be why your phone cant access anything. Your comp should only be able see the partition that acts like the external sd, so formatting it SHOULD be ok, but get a few more opinions on that before you do it. If so then you can copy a rom on and flash it in twrp.
Could it be -?
I've been trying and trying.
I've been told by someone that maybe I could plug in an SD card reader into my phone. It wasn't recognized.
Could it be my firmware update?
My phone in RUU or ARUwizard or "getvar version-main" says my phone rom version is 1.94.631.3
The rogers RUU out there is 1.73.631.1
Could that be why I cannot install anything on this brick?
LimesAreOranges said:
I've been trying and trying.
I've been told by someone that maybe I could plug in an SD card reader into my phone. It wasn't recognized.
Could it be my firmware update?
My phone in RUU or ARUwizard or "getvar version-main" says my phone rom version is 1.94.631.3
The rogers RUU out there is 1.73.631.1
Could that be why I cannot install anything on this brick?
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I believe that is the new Rogers OTA. I believe it may have the hboot update which is not rootable. If you have already relocked your boot loader and have the updated hboot, you may have a bookend I am afraid.
All you can do is unlock your bootloader again, push twrp recovery via fastboot, then mount the SD from recovery and copy a rooted custom ROM to your SD and flash it.
Hopefully someone will chime in and tell me I am wrong for your sake....
Beamed from my TN Special Edition powered HOXL on Rogers.
GibMcFragger said:
I believe that is the new Rogers OTA. I believe it may have the hboot update which is not rootable. If you have already relocked your boot loader and have the updated hboot, you may have a bookend I am afraid.
All you can do is unlock your bootloader again, push twrp recovery via fastboot, then mount the SD from recovery and copy a rooted custom ROM to your SD and flash it.
Hopefully someone will chime in and tell me I am wrong for your sake....
Beamed from my TN Special Edition powered HOXL on Rogers.
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If only my VSD worked... I gave you a thanks anyways. I'll wait for something to come up I guess. I'm kinda fed up with trying and nothing working over and over again.
If you have fastboot why not go through htcdev bootloader unlock? Every in here has suggested it.
Once unlocked flash new recovery and install a rom?
Ps force reboot the phone also by holding the power button for 10seconds.
Thank you for your imput. But my problem lies in the fact I cannot access my phone storage to install a custom rom nor can I flash a working RUU.
LimesAreOranges said:
I cannot access my phone storage to install a custom rom.
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I found force reboot of phone fixed my sd card when I had a similar problem when I couldnt write to it successfully.
twistedddx said:
I found force reboot of phone fixed my sd card when I had a similar problem when I couldnt write to it successfully.
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Didnt work. thanks though
Update on the situation
So I just tried TWO different methods and both did not work .
1.) I tried pushing a custom rom (Nocturna) to my SD card.
I cannot access ADB unless I am in TWRP, and pushing a file that big to my SD just crashes my phone. My SD also still cannot mount, I still cannot partition it, I still cannot do anything regarding my sd.
So I tried pushing the zip to other folders on my phone and I got a Process error like before on cmd promt as well as a crash TWRP.
So then I tried a second method.
2.) Downgrading software.
Since my firmware version was 1.94.xxx.x I tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671135
Everything went fine. Bootloader shows 1.11.0000 even though I wrote 1.00.000.0 and in the RUUs it shows 1.00.000.0.
But now that my phone is relocked, suprise! NONE of the RUUs work. I thought this would certainly fix the problem but aparently not.
Any suggestions?
LimesAreOranges said:
So I just tried TWO different methods and both did not work .
1.) I tried pushing a custom rom (Nocturna) to my SD card.
I cannot access ADB unless I am in TWRP, and pushing a file that big to my SD just crashes my phone. My SD also still cannot mount, I still cannot partition it, I still cannot do anything regarding my sd.
So I tried pushing the zip to other folders on my phone and I got a Process error like before on cmd promt as well as a crash TWRP.
So then I tried a second method.
2.) Downgrading software.
Since my firmware version was 1.94.xxx.x I tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671135
Everything went fine. Bootloader shows 1.11.0000 even though I wrote 1.00.000.0 and in the RUUs it shows 1.00.000.0.
But now that my phone is relocked, suprise! NONE of the RUUs work. I thought this would certainly fix the problem but aparently not.
Any suggestions?
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If your on 1.94 then you also have the upgraded hboot you can not downgrade and ruu a lower version it will fail you can only ruu 1.94
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E.Cadro said:
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If your on 1.94 then you also have the upgraded hboot you can not downgrade and ruu a lower version it will fail you can only ruu 1.94
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Thank you!!! So basically I need to wait for it to come out and I'm all set?
LimesAreOranges said:
Thank you!!! So basically I need to wait for it to come out and I'm all set?
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Yes if there was a 1.94 ruu it might work but I don't think I've seen one but I could be wrong.
On another note am I understanding you correctly you were able to mount your sd via twrp if so I'm surprised it crashed It's how I always move rom zips over to my phone.
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Yeah, my sd is kaput. I hope the RUU will fix it when it comes out. How long do you think it is going to take? I'm paying way too much for a plan if I'm not going to be using a smartphone.
LimesAreOranges said:
Yeah, my sd is kaput. I hope the RUU will fix it when it comes out. How long do you think it is going to take? I'm paying way too much for a plan if I'm not going to be using a smartphone.
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I recently had this issue cause i was messing around and I hit wipe in TWRP by accented. So it wipped everything on my phone to include the Hboot so no version showed up when i tried to flash the RUU. I grabbed the OTA 2.20 update with the kernal and now everything works minus the battery its drains crazy fast.

Help! Phone stuck in bootloop!

I flashed AOKP 1.4 earlier today coming off of TN Special Edition, but decided i didnt like it. I then did a factory reset and flashed Cleanrom 5 and SP1, but my phone just boots into the cleanrom boot screen, says no signal, and thjen flashes pop-ups such as "com.android.phone has stopped" and "android.process.acore" has stopped" before continuously rebooting. The RUU would not work. Please help, I am panicking!
Gosfgiants said:
I flashed AOKP 1.4 earlier today coming off of TN Special Edition, but decided i didnt like it. I then did a factory reset and flashed Cleanrom 5 and SP1, but my phone just boots into the cleanrom boot screen, says no signal, and thjen flashes pop-ups such as "com.android.phone has stopped" and "android.process.acore" has stopped" before continuously rebooting. The RUU would not work. Please help, I am panicking!
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did you ever take the 2.20 update?
If so did you remember to flash the boot.img in fast boot?
If that's not the problem maybe a bad flash? go to recovery again and re-wipe then reflash
gunnyman said:
did you ever take the 2.20 update?
If so did you remember to flash the boot.img in fast boot?
If that's not the problem maybe a bad flash? go to recovery again and re-wipe then reflash
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No i never took an OTA update, but i am on 2.29 instead of stock 1.85. In the aroma installer in Cleanrom i did click flash boot.img ( or i think i did anyway, i clicked "Yes") How do i boot into fastboot? I usually use the extended power settings, but it reboots before i can do that. Also when flahsing the RUU, it says failed, but it also says that i should be at the HTC screen with exclamation points in each corner, but those exclamation points dont appear.
Gosfgiants said:
No i never took an OTA update, but i am on 2.29 instead of stock 1.85. In the aroma installer in Cleanrom i did click flash boot.img ( or i think i did anyway, i clicked "Yes") How do i boot into fastboot? I usually use the extended power settings, but it reboots before i can do that. Also when flahsing the RUU, it says failed, but it also says that i should be at the HTC screen with exclamation points in each corner, but those exclamation points dont appear.
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just ref lash it. You never took the OTA which means your HBOOT is still the old one. I bet you didn't say yes to boot.img
gunnyman said:
just ref lash it. You never took the OTA which means your HBOOT is still the old one. I bet you didn't say yes to boot.img
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Are you talking about Cleanrom or the RUU? It reboots into the set up screen whenever i try to boot into bootloader (By holding power and the volume rocker), but that quickly crashes and reboots into the same screen again, so i don't know how i would be able to reflash it. If you are talking about the RUU, I have tried reflashing it three times, and every time it says "Utility can not update device"
Gosfgiants said:
Are you talking about Cleanrom or the RUU? It reboots into the set up screen whenever i try to boot into bootloader (By holding power and the volume rocker), but that quickly crashes and reboots into the same screen again, so i don't know how i would be able to reflash it. If you are talking about the RUU, I have tried reflashing it three times, and every time it says "Utility can not update device"
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hmm
so you can't get into the bootloader at all?
which RUU are you trying to run?
gunnyman said:
hmm
so you can't get into the bootloader at all?
which RUU are you trying to run?
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I cant figur eout a way too, and i am trying to flahs the 1.85 RUU,which i have used before.
this happened to me yesterday going from TN SE 3.7RC1 to the stable 3.7. I was able to get into recovery though, wipe everything, and get back up and running (but did not run a TB beforehand :crying Don't know what caused the bootloop though.
Gosfgiants said:
I cant figur eout a way too, and i am trying to flahs the 1.85 RUU,which i have used before.
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ok so your phone powers up into a bootloop is that right?
Do you ever see a screen after the HTC screen with the red writing on it? If you do, plug in the phone and open a command prompt. I assume you have ADB installed. If you don't see the link to ADB/Fastboot in my signature.
Anyway, when you see the screen after the HTC screen with the red warning on it, type adb reboot recovery. THAT should get you back to twrp and let you ref reflash.
gunnyman said:
ok so your phone powers up into a bootloop is that right?
Do you ever see a screen after the HTC screen with the red writing on it? If you do, plug in the phone and open a command prompt. I assume you have ADB installed. If you don't see the link to ADB/Fastboot in my signature.
Anyway, when you see the screen after the HTC screen with the red warning on it, type adb reboot recovery. THAT should get you back to twrp and let you ref reflash.
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Alright, i am donwloading the SDK. Is there anyway to make it go faster i am installing the 4.03 and 4.1 using the SDK manager, and it is taking a while. Or is there a way to just download ADB? I have an old script called ADB that i used to root with.
Gosfgiants said:
Alright, i am donwloading the SDK. Is there anyway to make it go faster i am installing the 4.03 and 4.1 using the SDK manager, and it is taking a while. Or is there a way to just download ADB? I have an old script called ADB that i used to root with.
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Look at my thread. There's an attachment with all you'll need
gunnyman said:
Look at my thread. There's an attachment with all you'll need
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Ya i see that now, sorry about that. whenever i try to run ADB, it juts rapidly runs a script and shuts down though.
Gosfgiants said:
Ya i see that now, sorry about that. whenever i try to run ADB, it juts rapidly runs a script and shuts down though.
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adb is a program that needs a command
adb reboot recovery for example.
gunnyman said:
adb is a program that needs a command
adb reboot recovery for example.
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Yes! thank you so much! I was able to rbeoot into recovery! so now just reflash Cleanrom?
Yep.
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Yep.
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Gunny, you're a smart guy. Please, please help me out here. I'm offering a literal cash reward for help with this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31365825#post31365825

Help!!! Possible Brick m8 VZW

I'm fairly new to the modding area, I'm familiar with the VZW S3 and S4, but upgraded to an M8...I rooted, got S OFF with firewater, and booted into twrp...BUT somehow the main factory image was deleted, and I can only boot into twrp..it stays at the HTC logo if I just let it boot...help!!
Is there something similar to Samsung's ODIN mode that I can just reflash a factory image?
roadblock217 said:
I'm fairly new to the modding area, I'm familiar with the VZW S3 and S4, but upgraded to an M8...I rooted, got S OFF with firewater, and booted into twrp...BUT somehow the main factory image was deleted, and I can only boot into twrp..it stays at the HTC logo if I just let it boot...help!!
Is there something similar to Samsung's ODIN mode that I can just reflash a factory image?
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I'm not sure if this will help but try reading this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2718562
Hope this will help.
Dragbike Racer said:
I'm not sure if this will help but try reading this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2718562
Hope this will help.
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Tried..doesnt work for me
I can get it to boot past the recovery area, but only stays on the white screen with the green HTC logo...
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I want to try it again, but now somehow I have S ON....and it says TAMPERED, below that UNLOCKED in fastboot..
Really frustrated..
Dragbike Racer said:
I'm not sure if this will help but try reading this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2718562
Hope this will help.
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When I try this again, it keeps telling me it cannot open the file...i copy the fastboot text so that it is correct...
How can I get S OFF back if I can't boot to any rom??
You can get into recovery...it won't let you restore a back up or nothing ?
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roadblock217 said:
When I try this again, it keeps telling me it cannot open the file...i copy the fastboot text so that it is correct...
How can I get S OFF back if I can't boot to any rom??
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Maybe sonic can get you s-off if all else fails with his java card. I'm not sure in your situation but I know he can do it as I used it. But I would use that as last resort
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roadblock217 said:
When I try this again, it keeps telling me it cannot open the file...i copy the fastboot text so that it is correct...
How can I get S OFF back if I can't boot to any rom??
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So you were S-OFF and you somehow got turned to S-ON...??
I would say flash the RUU and call it a day, but we don't have one and the one we do have you need S-OFF..
best bet?
get into fastboot/bootloader, and put on a custom recovery.
then, get the TWRP nandroid of the OTA, restore to that.
then, weaksauce/S-OFF
and then you should be back to normal.
If adb/fastboot is not working, I suggest you re-install your drivers, worked for me when I didn't think it would.
opion 2
get TWRP on with fastboot
then
adb sideload any ROM to it and then get back to S-OFF
since you are unlocked you should be ok to do this without being htc dev unlocked.
you could also try htc dev, but i think that is locked.
sorry trying to think of anything else.
andybones said:
So you were S-OFF and you somehow got turned to S-ON...??
I would say flash the RUU and call it a day, but we don't have one and the one we do have you need S-OFF..
best bet?
get into fastboot/bootloader, and put on a custom recovery.
then, get the TWRP nandroid of the OTA, restore to that.
then, weaksauce/S-OFF
and then you should be back to normal.
If adb/fastboot is not working, I suggest you re-install your drivers, worked for me when I didn't think it would.
opion 2
get TWRP on with fastboot
then
adb sideload any ROM to it and then get back to S-OFF
since you are unlocked you should be ok to do this without being htc dev unlocked.
you could also try htc dev, but i think that is locked.
sorry trying to think of anything else.
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I got TWRP back on, but where can I find a nandroid of the OTA? I tried doing a regular backup before things got weird but would not let me...Now I see the bug that doesnt allow to mount system...
roadblock217 said:
I got TWRP back on, but where can I find a nandroid of the OTA? I tried doing a regular backup before things got weird but would not let me...Now I see the bug that doesnt allow to mount system...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2725001
andybones said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2725001
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Thanks...just downloaded and am going to try...
What I'm concerned about is not being able to mount /system now...this is so weird
roadblock217 said:
Thanks...just downloaded and am going to try...
What I'm concerned about is not being able to mount /system now...this is so weird
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because of this, it most likely will not flash the nandroid then as system is a big part of the ROM and needs to be mounted.
you may have to do what was explained earlier and wipe the Internal, and then you may be able to re-do these steps.
so first try it out.
if it doesnt work, I would then wipe the 5 things instead of the 4
1) data
2) cache
3) dalvik cache
4) system
5) Internal storage (this will remove all your internal storage!)
then reboot from recovery into bootloader, then back into recovery and see if system is mounted, if it is, you can go ahead and either do the nandroid backup or an adb sideload. -- your choice
now,
if NONE of that works,
download the "RUU" that was put together and that *should* fix you right up.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2725001
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Nope won't work. I think it's because there is no marker folder for the m8 in my SD card where I store my backups. I tried making one, and it won't register that there is a folder there...
roadblock217 said:
Nope won't work. I think it's because there is no marker folder for the m8 in my SD card where I store my backups. I tried making one, and it won't register that there is a folder there...
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yes.. yes it most certainly will work as my ROM is based off that precise nandroid backup...
this is something you should have had backed up..
but, make yourself a dummy nand backup to create the folder..
just don't backup anything except.. data or cache, just pick one thing. and it'll create the folder for you (tip: backup EVERYTHING (Internal., SD-Card, anything important, etc) when playing with beta ROMs. ESP AOSP beta ROMs..
the folder that gets created will be the same throughout your entire stay on the M8 using TWRP, it will never change (well that phone anyway, if you get a refurb or w.e. obv it will be different, but that phones folder markers will never change within TWRP, so it's to your benefit to have this backed up and ready to go...)
andybones said:
yes.. yes it most certainly will work as my ROM is based off that precise nandroid backup...
this is something you should have had backed up..
but, make yourself a dummy nand backup to create the folder..
just don't backup anything except.. data or cache, just pick one thing. and it'll create the folder for you (tip: backup EVERYTHING (Internal., SD-Card, anything important, etc) when playing with beta ROMs. ESP AOSP beta ROMs..
the folder that gets created will be the same throughout your entire stay on the M8 using TWRP, it will never change (well that phone anyway, if you get a refurb or w.e. obv it will be different, but that phones folder markers will never change within TWRP, so it's to your benefit to have this backed up and ready to go...)
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Tried it again and again...used a different computer and it WORKED...Thank you so much for your help andybones!
roadblock217 said:
Tried it again and again...used a different computer and it WORKED...Thank you so much for your help andybones!
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Awesome!
Very welcome.
So what was the result fix?
Did you have to wipe Internal from system not mounting?
Or did the adb sideload work?
Also once it flashed it loaded up if you did not have to wipe Internal, was your storage still there?
Glad that your back up and running.
andybones said:
Awesome!
Very welcome.
So what was the result fix?
Did you have to wipe Internal from system not mounting?
Or did the adb sideload work?
Also once it flashed it loaded up if you did not have to wipe Internal, was your storage still there?
Glad that your back up and running.
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I had to flash the RUU but it finally worked and was applied..I'm honestly thinking of holding off on doing more to it until I learn more!
Had to wipe pretty much all except my sd card, rebooted to bootloader and back to twrp and it allowed me to write to system. BUT I couldnt get any rom to flash (when I did, it hung on the HTC logo as usual, but the aroma installer said that it was successful..so I gave up on that and did the RUU on a different computer and its back to normal.
roadblock217 said:
I had to flash the RUU but it finally worked and was applied..I'm honestly thinking of holding off on doing more to it until I learn more!
Had to wipe pretty much all except my sd card, rebooted to bootloader and back to twrp and it allowed me to write to system. BUT I couldnt get any rom to flash (when I did, it hung on the HTC logo as usual, but the aroma installer said that it was successful..so I gave up on that and did the RUU on a different computer and its back to normal.
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It's possible after so long you didn't give the ROM long enough to boot up?
Sounds like RUU might be a cause from flashing AOSP, threads like this are good to warn people, and for when it happens to others, they can read this and know what to do. Maybe think of a new title that could help those in a search to find this thread?

[Q] HTC can not boot to recovery...help?

So, i had to revert to stock everything, even had to go s-on and reset all flags. Then, i decided to download a rom and try it, upon going to recovery, my phone displays a triangle with an exclamation mark in it. I am fairly certain this means i deleted my recovery, so i flashed several recoveries (philz, twrp, stock) and none work, same problem. I tried flashing an RUU, but i think you need s-off for that, so it wont go pass the security check. I tried using firewater, but i got the whelp message, even though my phone previously went s-off with firewater - so that makes no sense.
Can anyone help? Or know of anything i can do?
Ark1406 said:
So, i had to revert to stock everything, even had to go s-on and reset all flags. Then, i decided to download a rom and try it, upon going to recovery, my phone displays a triangle with an exclamation mark in it. I am fairly certain this means i deleted my recovery, so i flashed several recoveries (philz, twrp, stock) and none work, same problem. I tried flashing an RUU, but i think you need s-off for that, so it wont go pass the security check. I tried using firewater, but i got the whelp message, even though my phone previously went s-off with firewater - so that makes no sense.
Can anyone help? Or know of anything i can do?
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Are you on 4.4.3? Im having similar issues I think HTC patched some of the exploits.
phlypoc said:
Are you on 4.4.3? Im having similar issues I think HTC patched some of the exploits.
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Yes, I am. I'm on stock everything currently.
Ark1406 said:
Yes, I am. I'm on stock everything currently.
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You need sunshine now to s off. Install and pay the $25 to pass go then get your flash on.
dottat said:
You need sunshine now to s off. Install and pay the $25 to pass go then get your flash on.
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Yeah that's what I thought, thanks man
Ark1406 said:
Yeah that's what I thought, thanks man
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BTW... When the red triangle appears press volume up and of power together to enter stock recovery. Verizon made it difficult for vzw users to get to stock recovery.
Make sure you have fastboot off in the power menu as well.
dottat said:
BTW... When the red triangle appears press volume up and of power together to enter stock recovery. Verizon made it difficult for vzw users to get to stock recovery.
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It worked.. If I replace stock with twrp, will this work?
Ark1406 said:
It worked.. If I replace stock with twrp, will this work?
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If you are unlocked or s off you will be able to.
Custom recoveries don't require the extra button presses though. When you select recovery from bootloader it just goes straight there.

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