[HELP] failed ROM flash - HTC One S

Hi guys,
I hope you can give me some pointers?
I have in front of me a HTC ONE S, it's not mine but a friend of my son, they've tried to flash a new ROM, failed and it's sat in a drawer for months, he volunteered me to have a look!
The only info I have on the failed flashing process is that "this is as far as she got"! So I can only go on what I in front of me.
The phone is stuck in a reboot cycle and never appears to start to run, i only get the HTC logo.
I can boot into TWRP, so she's managed to unlock and install recovery.
I can mount USB storage and copy files onto phone, there were no files here, only what I've copied.
Any ROM I've downloaded just fails, message usually reports that it's failed to mount partition.
I don't know if this is a S3 or S4.
Information I have;
from the label under the rear cover
PJ40100
NM8PJ40100
From the recovery screen;
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.15.0000
RADIO-1.11.50.05.28
OpenDSP-v31.1.0.45.0815
eMMC-boot
Dec 14 2012,17:10:57:-1
The version of TWRP is 2.2.1. I can see there's a newer TWRP, I guess I should update, how can I do this if I can't boot the phone?
So, from the above can I identify if it's a S3 or S4?
Do I need to format storage before flashing a ROM, or is there something else I need to do so I can successfully flash a new ROM?
Yours hopefully
Chris

I'm guessing I at least need to update TWRP, but I can't see a way of doing this with the current installed version other than via the phone OS.
What I can't find is an old ROM that works with this TWRP that I can just get running and work through the upgrades from there, anybody got any suggestions?
Chris

Ah ha, so I now know that I have a "soft brick"! I have managed to update TWRP to 2.8.7.0 I've tried a few ROMs but none boot, I'm therefore thinking that I've chosen an incompatible ROM? I still don't know what version of ONE S I have in front of me.
Googling "NM8PJ40100" seems inconclusive , but S4 comes up more than S3, can anyone provide any more definitive answers?
Please?
Chris

You have a European S4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2756192 for more info.

I've got it working, although I'm not really sure what the right combination was. I updated TWRP to 2.8.7.1 and tried flashing a few ROMS, but somewhere in that process I lost the ability to mount the SD card, and back to stuck in a boot loop.
Now more confident I reflashed TWRP 2.8.7.1, formated all phone partitions from within TWRP and mounted SD card. My PC didn't recognised the phone so I then formatted it from Windows, copied over ROM & GAPPS, flashed and now all OK.
I'm guessing the phone partitions got screwed somewhere, by me or by the owner, or both!
Finally got there and knowing what type of ROM I needed helped, so thank you kdd988!
Chris

Hi there Chris,
I am having the same problem with a girl's HTC One S as well (I can't remember if I had determine if it was and S3 or an S4 model). After going through the process to try to flash to custom ROM, during the process, it just gave this error message (can't remember what exactly unfortunately, was over 6 months ago), this was after wiping the Dalvik Cache, so I assume that clears out the original factory ROM?
So, somehow it got stuck in a similar fashion as you mentioned
Info under back cover:
Moel: PJ40110
FCC ID: NM8PJ40110
IC: 411B-PJ40110
ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.1.5
HTC Recovery Screen
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.15.0000
RADIO-1.13.50.05.31
OpenDSP-v31.1.0.45.0815
eMMC-boot
Dec 14 2012,17:10:57:-1
This one, when you power it on, it goes straight to the CLockworkMod screen.
Can you tell me the exact procedure you used to get the ROM uploaded to the phone memory so then to flash it within the recovery interface.
The phone is no longer recognized as a device on the PC currently so no way to access the phone's internal memory to put the files on etc
Cheers
Ross

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Never ending bootloop after CM10? A little special case perhaps :/

Never ending bootloop after CM10?
Hello guys. I'm not panicking TOO much because I trust you guys know how to fix this...hopefully : (
I woke up today and thought I'd try out CM10. I downloaded the ROM and did everything as I normally would and flashed it, then attempted to flash a GAPPS but it error'd out.. weird. I booted into CM10 just fine without any errors but when I plugged in my phone to transfer over a new JBapps my phone wasn't recognizable by my PC. I thought I'd just install a ROM that would allow my phone to be recognized (So I could transfer the Jbapps) so I installed CleanRom 4.5 and while it was installing I went to take a shower. I came back and it was still booting up and I immediately thought "uh oh"
So this leaves me here now with my phone stuck booting up and shutting itself down... it won't stay off either. I tried holding Power+Volume Down and it just keeps turning on and turning off. So getting into recovery is a toughy...
Any way to fix this? Thanks guys. appreciate it
EDIT: I was playing around trying every possible button combination and just holding down Volume button seemed to work. I'm now in the White screen where it allows me to FastBoot, Recovery, Factory Reset, etc.
What can I do from here? thanks... I'm still kind of new to this : )
Reboot into recovery (use volume keys to scroll and press power button to select), factory reset, then install.
If that doesn't work, did you update to 2.20 stock at all?
rohan32 said:
Reboot into recovery (use volume keys to scroll and press power button to select), factory reset, then install.
If that doesn't work, did you update to 2.20 stock at all?
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Factory Reset results in bootloop. This is what I see on my screen right now.
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.09. 0000
RADIO-0.16a 32.09.06
OpenDSP-v25.1.0.32.0405
eMMC-boot
I do not believe I updated to 2.20.
EDIT:
I think I can fix it myself if someone points me in the direction of a good guide to Unbrick the phone for the HTC One XL, does anyone know of a good way?
Can u get into recovery?
Sent from my HTC One X
From bootloader select recovery once in recovery factory reset then wipe /system then reinstall CM10 boot once then enter back into recovery and reflash gapps oh and redownload gapps the one you have might be corrupted or something.
As for the usb not mounting under CM10 that is a known issue and it can be fixed by manually installing the windows driver in device manager. When you plug your phone and mount it to windows you will get windows trying to install some HTC MTP driver and then it will fail. Go into device manager find that driver then select update driver, browse computer for driver, then let me pick from a list of device drivers, select disk drive and hit finish. This will let you mount your phone in windows.
I am having an issue similiar to the endless boot too, but mine is also unmounted. =( I am pretty new at all this and i was in the process of uninstalling king_kang and was going to just restore factory. So I did that and then I had made a backup before i instaled it, so I tried to instal that and for some reason after i did when my phone was booting back up it just stopped and rebooted again. Thats when this all started =[
any help anyone could give me would be appriciated or point me into a direction to look for answers...there is so much info on these forums and I have been combing through for hours ...
I still have TWRP 2.3.1 flashed and ...boot oader looks like this:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012,14:36:28
KDoane said:
I am having an issue similiar to the endless boot too, but mine is also unmounted. =( I am pretty new at all this and i was in the process of uninstalling king_kang and was going to just restore factory. So I did that and then I had made a backup before i instaled it, so I tried to instal that and for some reason after i did when my phone was booting back up it just stopped and rebooted again. Thats when this all started =[
any help anyone could give me would be appriciated or point me into a direction to look for answers...there is so much info on these forums and I have been combing through for hours ...
I still have TWRP 2.3.1 flashed and ...boot oader looks like this:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012,14:36:28
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Go find a stock ROM and flash it, just because you factory reset doesn't mean that your phone reverts back to the stock rom.
Flash it like you would any other rom. but make sure you wipe system/cache/dalvik.
KDoane said:
I am having an issue similiar to the endless boot too, but mine is also unmounted. =( I am pretty new at all this and i was in the process of uninstalling king_kang and was going to just restore factory. So I did that and then I had made a backup before i instaled it, so I tried to instal that and for some reason after i did when my phone was booting back up it just stopped and rebooted again. Thats when this all started =[
any help anyone could give me would be appriciated or point me into a direction to look for answers...there is so much info on these forums and I have been combing through for hours ...
I still have TWRP 2.3.1 flashed and ...boot oader looks like this:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
Evita PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
Radio-0.19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot
Jun 11 2012,14:36:28
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You're on HBOOT 1.14. You need to fastboot flash boot boot.img after you flash a new rom. You can find boot.img by unzipping the rom.
Hey thank you guys for the responses. I am really stuck, LoL. I am really just learning about the modding and unlocking of phones. I have done quite a bit of reading about it and decided it wasn't going to learn anymore w/o playing with it. I guess i was wrong tho =]. I will try your suggestions tomorrow, and I am confident that I am still about to do something to fix it and its not "bricked". I know that when I hooked it up to my PC HTCSync recognized it and popped up as did windows driver installer, which was weird because I made sure to install the drivers before i went on this little adventure. Also, i am able to get the the Bootloader menu and pop into Recovery, the only thing that is worrisome is that once I am in Recovery (TWRP) I can not access the SIM data, i think. When I try to clear the Caches and System I get a not mounted error =\.
Anyways, once again, I really appriciate the feed back and tomorrow when I try your suggestions I'll post my results.. =]
Yea man a boot loop is good!! Well I mean its not fantastic, but better than trying to turn it on and just seeing your reflection! That's an easy fix :thumbup:
Sent from my One X using Tapatalk 2

[Q] I've screwed my OS, help

Hi everyone, I need help, every reply is welcome. Thanks
So here's the deal: I'm a major noob about rooting and stuff but i read tutorials and I'm willing to learn. I've successfully rooted my VilleC2 few weeks ago and installed Custom ROM. I've followed step-by-step tutorials, unlocked bootloader, installed recovery etc. and I got CG 10.1 mod on my phone. I've played with it for a while and then I successfully switched to Viper ROM and I used it until now. I've decided to try out CG 10.2 with Android 4.3, so I downloaded the files and transfered them to my phone.
I went to TWRP recovery and tried to do a regular WIPE (which worked for me when I switched from CG 10.1 to VIPER) but the wipe failed. After that I went to INSTALL option in TWRP and realized that I don't have any of my files there (no folder where I put my rom, or anything else). I think I deleted my sd card contents or something and now I don't have any OS to boot. Bootloader works, twrp also.
I have no idea what to do, and how to transfer any rom files to my phone. One S has no sd card, and I can't do that manually. Any help is greatly welcome, thanks again
Here's the bootloader info:
VILLEC2 PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT - 3.01.0000
RADIO 16.11.20.24_M
OpenDSP - v11.6.0.2235.00.0304
eMMC - boot
Mar 4 2013, 18:02:08:7897
xona said:
Hi everyone, I need help, every reply is welcome. Thanks
So here's the deal: I'm a major noob about rooting and stuff but i read tutorials and I'm willing to learn. I've successfully rooted my VilleC2 few we................................................................
eMMC - boot
Mar 4 2013, 18:02:08:7897
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There is an Option in TWRP: MOUNT STORAGE. Connect phone to PC, Tap Mount Storage and you should see Your SD partition in PC after a few seconds.
Load the OS onto the SD partition and flash it away.
Many many thanks!
Problem solved?
If not you can always use adb to push files to your phone

[Q] Softbricked (Unlocked Bootloader, S-ON, HBOOT 2.22)

While in TWRP I formatted and cleared my system. So now I have no OS on my device.
It is a mistake I won't make again. There is no need to tell me how stupid it was.
I have tried a lot of things people have posted here, but I can't seem to get anything to work.
Here's my HBOOT:
*** TAMPERED ***
*** UNLOCKED ***
M4_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.22.0000
RADIO-1.25.40g.00.19
OpenDSP-v19.2.0268.0927
OS-3.10.502.3
eMMC-boot 1024 MB
I've tried this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2730910
except using adb push instead of USB OTG.
On TWRP 2.7.0.0, I had a problem where it said that /system could not be mounted. I could not mount it manually
So I switched to CWM_6.0.4.3. It says it installs fine, but then when I restart, it removes CWM from recovery (I have to flash it again) and it gets stuck at the white htc screen when I boot (even if I flash the boot img of the zip)
I've used adb push to put this on the sdcard:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616780
Both V_2 and V_3 seem to do fine in CWM until about 40% on the loading bar where they get stuck indefinitely
I tried RUU but I got error 99, which I think is because I have S-ON.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi
From what I read here, Hboot 2.22 uses the new partition layout.
Please read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2713849 how to determinate if you have it or not.
With the new layout, you have to use TWRP 2.7.0.5
greetings
Didier
Thanks
Awesome! Thank you so much
Unanchored said:
Awesome! Thank you so much
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Hey did you figure this out?
I'm having the same problem and I'm stuck. Not sure which rom to try to flash.
Thanks

[Q] Help - Phone not loading past HTC logo

I recently bought a HTC Desire S secondhand, however when it arrived I turned it on to find that it just displays the HTC logo then a black screen. It has 4ext installed - which is what loads when try to do a factory reset.
I have no experience with installing custom ROMs but I'm pretty good at following instructions. I'm hoping that someone here will be able to tell me how to fix this!
Some more information, the boot loader menu says:
*** UNLOCKED ***
Saga PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.002
RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M
eMMC-boot
Thank you for any help,
Tom
Read through sticky thread in General section it will get you started.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186401
Not sure what version of 4EXT you have on your phone. Recommend you update it to a newer, if not the latest, version before you start flashing. Download recovery image file and flash via fastboot. Before installing a new ROM, choose "format all partitions except SD card' for a complete wipe.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377745
Your phone is S-on so remember to flash boot.img whenever you flash a new ROM, otherwise it would mostly fail to boot.
Try Cyanogenmod first, It's not the latest and greatest, but a good and safe ROM to get you started
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=saga

htc inspire 4g stuck on htc screen after rom install using twrp. no backup

i went to install a 4.4.2 rom thru twrp and all went well up until i rebooted. now its stuck on htc screen.
*** UNLOCKED***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0030
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.09.13.17_M
eMMC-boot
FEB 20 2012 16:03:18
i AM UNABLE TO GET INTO THE DEVICE BUT I AM ABLE TO USE FASTBOOT USB. AND RECOVERY THRU TWRP. i WOULD RATHER REFLASH CWMR AS THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE GOTO FOR RECOVERIES, NOT TOO SURE ABOUT TWRP. i WOULD REALLY LIKE A STEP BY STEP TO AT THE VERY LEAST GET MY STOCK ROM BACK UP AND RUNNING, THOUGH EVEN BETTER IF I COULD USE A 4.4. ROM. THE DEVICE WAS ROOTED BEFORE I FUDGED UP. i WOULD HAVE BACKED UP MY EXISTING ROM BUT HAD NOT ENOUGH SPACE. YA LIVE AND YA LEARN. WAS TOLD SOMEWHERE TO FLASH ROM THRU FASTBOOT BUT NOT ENTIRELY SURE HOW THAT WORKS. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT. THIS IS MY ONLY DEVICE AT THE MOMENT AND NEEDING ABIT OF GUIDANCE. THANKS GUYS AND GALS

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