I am trying to root my Note 3, so i decided to switch back to an old One Mini that I had laying around. It was completely stock, and before I powered it off a few months ago I did a factory reset. Today I booted up the phone and its stuck in bootloader mode. Tried rebooting, nothing. Recovery mode does nothing - it just vibrates and goes back to bootloader screen. I have absolutely no idea what happened, as the phone was off and sitting in my closet for 3 months. It was never rooted, and being AT&t I fear the worst for this phone. There is no warranty, as the phone is super old.
I've tried unlocking the bootloader and I either get a confirmation message in command prompt or I get a "FAILED <unknown status code>" and the phone has not changed.
I can't flash any recoveries or new image files. Is there anything I can do to fix this phone, short of taking it to Bestbuy or AT&T and paying tons of money?
Here's info from the bootloader screen if that helps:
M4_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.22.0000
OS-4.13.502.3
eMMC-boot 1024 MB
Jul 11 2014,20,49:19
Image crc just shoes all things as "0x0"
Check SmartSD does nothing
Factory Reset does nothing
"Reboot" does nothing
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I am trying to root my Note 3, so i decided to switch back to an old One Mini that I had laying around. It was completely stock, and before I powered it off a few months ago I did a factory reset. Today I booted up the phone and its stuck in bootloader mode. Tried rebooting, nothing. Recovery mode does nothing - it just vibrates and goes back to bootloader screen. I have absolutely no idea what happened, as the phone was off and sitting in my closet for 3 months. It was never rooted, and being AT&t I fear the worst for this phone. There is no warranty, as the phone is super old.
I've tried unlocking the bootloader and I either get a confirmation message in command prompt or I get a "FAILED <unknown status code>" and the phone has not changed.
I can't flash any recoveries or new image files. Is there anything I can do to fix this phone, short of taking it to Bestbuy or AT&T and paying tons of money?
Here's info from the bootloader screen if that helps:
M4_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.22.0000
OS-4.13.502.3
eMMC-boot 1024 MB
Jul 11 2014,20,49:19
Image crc just shoes all things as "0x0"
Check SmartSD does nothing
Factory Reset does nothing
"Reboot" does nothing
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Hi,
I have my HTC Desire S for about 6 month and it worked fine. About three weeks ago I installed the official ICS upgrade for this phone. The phone was rooted (by me) so I re-locked it in order to apply the update (sorry if I'm not using the right terms, I a bit new for this..).
A week ago, while in visiting in Rome, I tried to open my phone after the flight and it started a reboot loop. After a while it somehow recovered, and from the HTC recovery log I saw there was some "radio failure".
During the last week it would reboot from time to time, and I thought I would check it out when coming back home.
Now, trying to open it after the flight home - it won't even get beyond the HTC logo, just stuck in endless reboot loop.
I read some posts on this problem, but because my phone is re-locked I don't know what I can do: any thread about this problem requires the phone to be rooted. And I'm not sure how to root it because any thread about performing a root requires to open the phone and set up some settings, like 'enable debugging' for the USB connection (which I cannot do because phone keeps rebooting..).
Here is what I see at the HBOOT screen, hope it helps:
*** RELOCKED ***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.02.0002
RADIO-3831. 19.00.110
eMMC-boot
Jul 31 2012, 15:41:32
Trying to select FACTORY RESET will not help.
Trying to select RECOVERY ends with an error (I get a screen with a nice picture of the phone and red exclamation mark near it).
PLZ HELP!!
Thanks
Update: I've unlocked my phone again using the HTC site, so now the HBOOT screen shows *** UNLOCKED *** as the first line, other lines are the same (if this helps...)
UPDATE: I've used some very good guide (unfortunately I cannot post the link because I'm a new user..) for rooting and flashing a new ROM to my phone (downgraded to Gingerbread ROM), BUT the phone keeps rebooting..
Help plz....
As it did work until you opened the phone, either you made a physical problem, and now need a new board because it is defective, torn, cracked or something...
Or you made a mistake by removing the battery while the phone was still (partially) powered. This may cause some partition damage like on a pc. As there is no chkdsk available, the easiest solution is to repartition and reformat.
I read you already have reformatted the data partition by factory reset, and tried to repartition by installing that old update.
That would not work, as a normal flashing of a (custom or original) rom will / can not repartition the emmc chip. The only way to do that is to execute the RUU again what made phone get the ICS Update.
If that doesn't solve your problem, your phone seems to be defective.
The last option that remains then is to replace the emmc chip.
Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk
Thanks for the reply.
Can you explain how should I reformat and repartition? I have now the ClockworkMod Recovery (V5.8.1.5)
I cannot run RUU because the exe file tries to connect to the phone and gets an connection error. It only worked when the phone completed its upload and now (because of the reboot-loop) I can't get to this state.
Ok, It took me some time to understand that when in fastboot the PC has communication with the phone and I can install RUU..
So I re-install the HTC official ICS RUU for my device and it seems PROBLEM SOLVED!
Phone has started, I could play with it a bit... and no reboots yet.
Let's see if it keeps like that for several hours / days... I hope it is not an hardware problem and only software...
Thanks!
Sorry for beginning a new thread, I searched around and haven't found this exact issue resolved elsewhere.
I have a completely stock HTC One S US T-Mob, as of now it is bootloader unlocked. It is unrooted and has never been rooted. I received this phone from insurance just a week ago, everything was running fine, all of a sudden the phone shut off and began endlessly rebooting. It boots up to the HTC logo, goes black and starts over again. The phone does not have USB debugging enabled because I never planned to modify it. I can get into the bootloader and fastboot, however, no options in the bootloader menu are responsive. If I select anything other than "Power Down" in the fastboot menu the phone instantly returns to bootlooping. I can't select "factory reset" or anything. I can't even plug the phone in to charge without it re-entering a bootloop.
I've been trying to find a way to force USB debugging, or flash a stock rom just so that I can reset the damn thing back to stock. That is why the bootloader is now unlocked. Everything was completely stock when the bootloop took hold.
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a fix. I don't care about recovering my data, I don't care about modifying this phone, I just want to get out of this bootloop and back to stock. Please help. Is there anything I can do?
Here is the text from my bootloader.
*** tampered ***
*** unlocked ***
vle pvt ship s-on rl
hboot-1.14.0005
radio-1.11t.50.02.22
opendsp-v29.1.0.45.0622
emmc-boot
Nov 21 2012, 12:17:41
Any info you need, let me know.
derpaderp said:
Sorry for beginning a new thread, I searched around and haven't found this exact issue resolved elsewhere.
I have a completely stock HTC One S US T-Mob, as of now it is bootloader unlocked. It is unrooted and has never been rooted. I received this phone from insurance just a week ago, everything was running fine, all of a sudden the phone shut off and began endlessly rebooting. It boots up to the HTC logo, goes black and starts over again. The phone does not have USB debugging enabled because I never planned to modify it. I can get into the bootloader and fastboot, however, no options in the bootloader menu are responsive. If I select anything other than "Power Down" in the fastboot menu the phone instantly returns to bootlooping. I can't select "factory reset" or anything. I can't even plug the phone in to charge without it re-entering a bootloop.
I've been trying to find a way to force USB debugging, or flash a stock rom just so that I can reset the damn thing back to stock. That is why the bootloader is now unlocked. Everything was completely stock when the bootloop took hold.
I'm hoping someone can help me out with a fix. I don't care about recovering my data, I don't care about modifying this phone, I just want to get out of this bootloop and back to stock. Please help. Is there anything I can do?
Here is the text from my bootloader.
*** tampered ***
*** unlocked ***
vle pvt ship s-on rl
hboot-1.14.0005
radio-1.11t.50.02.22
opendsp-v29.1.0.45.0622
emmc-boot
Nov 21 2012, 12:17:41
Any info you need, let me know.
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Well it seems most of the damage has been done. I would flash RUU using the all in one tool kit. It might be possible your boot image became corrupt. You could even flash a custom rom at this point since your bootloader is already unlocked.
biggardr said:
Well it seems most of the damage has been done. I would flash RUU using the all in one tool kit. It might be possible your boot image became corrupt. You could even flash a custom rom at this point since your bootloader is already unlocked.
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Hey, thank you so much for your reply. I've got the All-In-One toolkit, and when I try to use it to flash an RUU or ROM it says Device Not Found. I have HTC Sync installed, so the drivers should be there, and everything else looks to be in place. The All-In-One dialogue says that USB debugging must be enabled, and it is not.
Is there a way around?
can't get out of boot loop!
was on ElementalX 5.0, but i started experiencing bad battery life, so flashed ElementalX 4.3, and got stuck in the loop.
when i had boot loop happening before, i just had to flash boot.img via cmd, but that's not doing anything.
Help! I have an old HTC Sensation that I wanted to trade in for the HTC One that I got. It's been more than a year since I used the Sensation and I don't remember the numeric pin that I had set up for it (the regular Android security screen-lock pin). What can I do?
My objective is to wipe the phone before sending it.
First of all, what do we do if we forget the Android screen-lock pin/pattern? (It just says "please try again in 30 seconds" as is the case with any Android phone)
Anyway, if there is no way to recover the pin (is there?), then my next question is how do I wipe the phone?
Someone please help.
one idea is to boot into safe mode
reboot the device and once it shows the splash screen hold the volume down key until it gets you to the safe mode
after that disable the unlock pattern from settings and reboot again
done
about wipe what exactly do you want to do?
are you rooted?
rzr86 said:
one idea is to boot into safe mode
reboot the device and once it shows the splash screen hold the volume down key until it gets you to the safe mode
after that disable the unlock pattern from settings and reboot again
done
about wipe what exactly do you want to do?
are you rooted?
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Honestly I don't even remember what was the last state of it (rooted or not). I have had a couple of phones after it (the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4) and rooted (and unrooted) those too. So I don't really remember if I had rooted it (I think I had but not sure).
So can we look at both possibilities: its rooted, and its not rooted.
I basically want to wipe any personal data off the phone - because I want to send it to HTC as part of the $100 Trade In program they are giving for the new HTC One (which I got recently).
Thanks.
boball said:
Honestly I don't even remember what was the last state of it (rooted it or not). I have had a couple of phones after it (the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4) and rooted (and unrooted) those too.
So can we look at both possibilities: its rooted, and its not rooted. I want to basically wipe the phone of any personal data - because I want to send it to HTC as part of the $100 Trade In program they are giving for the new HTC One (which I got recently).
Thanks.
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reboot to the bootloader and post the details
rzr86 said:
reboot to the bootloader and post the details
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ok I booted to the bootloader
It says
***LOCKED***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.18.0000
RADIO-10.14.9035.01_M
eMMC-boot
Aug 2 2011,22:35:52
HBOOT
VOL UP to previous item
VOL DOWN to next item
POWER to select item
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
oh cool I can Factory Reset it now from the bootloader option above Thank you so much rzr86. I really forgot everything about the Sensation. (it's been like ages and I've had a couple of phones in between). The deadline for the HTC One Trade-In is June 19 so I was looking for my oldest phone to trade-in.
boball said:
ok I booted to the bootloader
It says
***LOCKED***
PYRAMID PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.18.0000
RADIO-10.14.9035.01_M
eMMC-boot
Aug 2 2011,22:35:52
HBOOT
VOL UP to previous item
VOL DOWN to next item
POWER to select item
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
IMAGE CRC
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man you are completely stock as you bought it
there is no need to do anything about it
now for the wipe you said
from settings it has an option for factory reset
it will erase everything(not sdcard) and returns the device to default settings as you took it
I am trying to root my Note 3, so i decided to switch back to an old One Mini that I had laying around. It was completely stock, and before I powered it off a few months ago I did a factory reset. Today I booted up the phone and its stuck in bootloader mode. Tried rebooting, nothing. Recovery mode does nothing - it just vibrates and goes back to bootloader screen. I have absolutely no idea what happened, as the phone was off and sitting in my closet for 3 months. It was never rooted, and being AT&t I fear the worst for this phone. There is no warranty, as the phone is super old.
I've tried unlocking the bootloader and I either get a confirmation message in command prompt or I get a "FAILED <unknown status code>" and the phone has not changed.
I can't flash any recoveries or new image files. Is there anything I can do to fix this phone, short of taking it to Bestbuy or AT&T and paying tons of money?
Here's info from the bootloader screen if that helps:
M4_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.22.0000
OS-4.13.502.3
eMMC-boot 1024 MB
Jul 11 2014,20,49:19
Image crc just shoes all things as "0x0"
Check SmartSD does nothing
Factory Reset does nothing
"Reboot" does nothing
Edit: I am trying the "Charge your battery batch file" I saw in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084
I will update when this does/doesn't work
Alright, the battery charging thing did not work. Still not booting.
Still trying things. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.
So, here I am with the same problem everyone else is having here. I left my phone abandoned for around 6 months, I booted it up and it didn't. Then to my thought I will charge my device. I put in the charger and scary fastboot mode comes up on the screen with
***Locked***
M4_UL etc etc. and S-On
I have never done unlocking and rooting its just factory OS with bootloader locked [Never unlocked].
I have gone through the entire forum looking for answers but couldn't find the answer. None of the fastboot commands work apart from getvar all.
If i try to flash recovery it gives "Remote not allowed". When I try with unlock.bin to unlock bootloader it fails as the disclaimer screen doesn't comes up.
I am stuck with this for almost 1 month. Please guide me on this. I just want my phone to boot up with OS not unlocking required if not necessary. Tried RUU also but no luck.
Will donate few bugs if it works.