So its been a while since I've been to xda so I hope I'm posting this in the right section.
Just so you know, I realize that what I did I will probably never be able to fix, I just want to make sure before I go before google on my knees and beg for mercy. I'm also aware that what I did is so stupid and unforgivable that I should never be allowed to root a device ever again. With that out of the way, here is my problem.
I just had my pixel replaced after my previous one had hardware problems, that are irreverent to this topic. I was setting it up to be my daily driver again, so I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, loaded a few systemUI mods and the elementalx kernel. I had it working really well, but one thing was bugging me. That stupid notification that you get every time you boot up with the bootloader unlocked. I hated it. I got to thinking about it today, and I thought "Could it be possible to relock the bootloader with the changes that I made and have it still work?" I was thinking that once the mods were put in, it shouldn't matter whether or not the bootloader was unlocked or not cause the changes were already made. So I did the unthinkable and relocked my bootloader after I did all the stuff listed above.
So yes I major bricked my device by doing this, and yes I'm a major idiot for thinking that locking the bootloader was an OK thing to do. I can still get into fastboot mode, but thats it. When I try to boot into the system, it flashes the splash screen for about .5 seconds then goes black for 2 seconds then repeats. It does the same thing in recovery mode so adb side loading firmware is out of the question. I can't use fastboot boot whatever.img cause the bootloader is locked. I can't fastboot wipe userdata or mess with the system in any way via fastboot. And to top it all off, I cant reunlock the bootloader because it requires that an option be checked in the system that I now can't boot into.
This is a last ditch effort to see if I can fix this device myself, or if I need to go to google and pray they let me rma my device a second time
Any Ideas?
-MightyMouse- said:
So its been a while since I've been to xda so I hope I'm posting this in the right section.
Just so you know, I realize that what I did I will probably never be able to fix, I just want to make sure before I go before google on my knees and beg for mercy. I'm also aware that what I did is so stupid and unforgivable that I should never be allowed to root a device ever again. With that out of the way, here is my problem.
I just had my pixel replaced after my previous one had hardware problems, that are irreverent to this topic. I was setting it up to be my daily driver again, so I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, loaded a few systemUI mods and the elementalx kernel. I had it working really well, but one thing was bugging me. That stupid notification that you get every time you boot up with the bootloader unlocked. I hated it. I got to thinking about it today, and I thought "Could it be possible to relock the bootloader with the changes that I made and have it still work?" I was thinking that once the mods were put in, it shouldn't matter whether or not the bootloader was unlocked or not cause the changes were already made. So I did the unthinkable and relocked my bootloader after I did all the stuff listed above.
So yes I major bricked my device by doing this, and yes I'm a major idiot for thinking that locking the bootloader was an OK thing to do. I can still get into fastboot mode, but thats it. When I try to boot into the system, it flashes the splash screen for about .5 seconds then goes black for 2 seconds then repeats. It does the same thing in recovery mode so adb side loading firmware is out of the question. I can't use fastboot boot whatever.img cause the bootloader is locked. I can't fastboot wipe userdata or mess with the system in any way via fastboot. And to top it all off, I cant reunlock the bootloader because it requires that an option be checked in the system that I now can't boot into.
This is a last ditch effort to see if I can fix this device myself, or if I need to go to google and pray they let me rma my device a second time
Any Ideas?
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Well I'm not sure of this, but can't you unlock your bootloader through adb? If so then just flash the stock image.. I also saw a post somewhere about restoring your phone with a locked bootloader. Again this is just a suggestion but worth looking into.
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I'll not chastise you for what you did, I've locked the bl after making changes too although I never did care about the splash screen. I just don't look at it after a reboot, hold it until it vibrates and then log in. But I understand you not liking is since I've seen other posts about trying to get rid of it. But... your only mistake was flipping the OEM unlock switch. You could have relocked the bl with that switch still enabled and not have the splash screen any longer.
So at this point you have to beg for a replacement. I don't think they'll give you a hard time about it if you're honest as you were here. You might get some suggestions from others so good luck. You did try to factory reset in recovery right? Oh just looked and you can't get into recovery. What happens when you try from bl menu? You don't even see the android little guy saying "no command"?
quinejh said:
Well I'm not sure of this, but can't you unlock your bootloader through adb? If so then just flash the stock image.. I also saw a post somewhere about restoring your phone with a locked bootloader. Again this is just a suggestion but worth looking into.
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Thanks for answering. I had looked into this, but the only way that you could do that is adb sideloading an ota from google. That can only be done by the recovery which is now borked.
bobby janow said:
I'll not chastise you for what you did, I've locked the bl after making changes too although I never did care about the splash screen. I just don't look at it after a reboot, hold it until it vibrates and then log in. But I understand you not liking is since I've seen other posts about trying to get rid of it. But... your only mistake was flipping the OEM unlock switch. You could have relocked the bl with that switch still enabled and not have the splash screen any longer.
So at this point you have to beg for a replacement. I don't think they'll give you a hard time about it if you're honest as you were here. You might get some suggestions from others so good luck. You did try to factory reset in recovery right? Oh just looked and you can't get into recovery. What happens when you try from bl menu? You don't even see the android little guy saying "no command"?
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What makes me really mad is that I never disabled OEM unlock. That being said, I did see that is was disabled in settings and didn't think anything of it. I can't get into recovery at all, even through the bootloader. My guess is I borked the image that the recovery was put on as well as the system and probably a couple others. Something I know I could fix if the boot loader wasn't locked. Well I think I will get the ball rolling on an RMA then.
@-MightyMouse- When you have bootloader unlocked the option is grayed out and thereby disabled. But it does say bootloader is already unlocked so no action is needed. If you didn't switch it back over then there really is no reason that it should be disabled in the settings. When did you see it disabled if you can't get into the system? And what happens when you type the unlock command from bootloader menu? I'm locked but I think it's something like fastboot oem unlock or maybe it's changed. What does the screen say? I'm sure you tried it but I'm just curious.
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@-MightyMouse- When you have bootloader unlocked the option is grayed out and thereby disabled. But it does say bootloader is already unlocked so no action is needed. If you didn't switch it back over then there really is no reason that it should be disabled in the settings. When did you see it disabled if you can't get into the system? And what happens when you type the unlock command from bootloader menu? I'm locked but I think it's something like fastboot oem unlock or maybe it's changed. What does the screen say? I'm sure you tried it but I'm just curious.
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That was the first thing I tried. I forget what it said, but I do remember that it wouldn't let me. No matter, I already got it RMA'ed but have to wait till Monday to ship it off.
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That was the first thing I tried. I forget what it said, but I do remember that it wouldn't let me. No matter, I already got it RMA'ed but have to wait till Monday to ship it off.
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Ok cool. Good luck.
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That was the first thing I tried. I forget what it said, but I do remember that it wouldn't let me. No matter, I already got it RMA'ed but have to wait till Monday to ship it off.
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So, what error shows up when you try - fastboot flashing unlock ?
After you somehow manage to unlock BL, you could try using the flash-all.bat script to quickly begin to push the images....
Edit: nvm. I see you have gone through a RMA again.
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So, what error shows up when you try - fastboot flashing unlock ?
After you somehow manage to unlock BL, you could try using the flash-all.bat script to quickly begin to push the images....
Edit: nvm. I see you have gone through a RMA again.
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The error was something like option unavailable. Went through the RMA process which was surprisingly good. Every time I've gone through it, they never ask more than one or two questions before they ask for my imei and tell me that my device could be replaced, which is great, because if I can't fix it, it just needs to be replaced anyways. In other news I got my third pixel just a couple hours ago so hopefully this one lasts me longer than a day.
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I had my phone rooted and unlocked and was also using CleanROM 4.1 before I decided today to change to CleanROM 4.5.
So, I downloaded the file and went to Recovery and flashed it (it did take very little time with flashing which I found rather strange.) When I rebooted, the phone was stuck at the HTC screen. I figured that I MIGHT have had CWM installed and I didn't know it (I can't be quite 100% sure of this as I thought I DID have TWRP since it was a touch recovery that I had.) Since I was able to boot back up to Fastboot, I said "Let me flash the TWRP recovery file and try again".....Well, I did that and according to the Command Prompt it was successful (showed sending, writing, finished etc....) Once finished, I rebooted back and all I see now is the TeamWin logo in Recovery and THAT'S IT. It won't give me any menu options. If I let it sit, it will reboot back to the HTC screen.
What are my options right now? Is there a specific file I can flash through Fastboot that will allow me to proceed?
I would appreciate the help and I'll be sure to come back and let you know how successful I was. :fingers-crossed:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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Try flashing the boot.IMG from the the zipped ROM you were trying to flash to boot partition through the bootloader (cmd in windows: fastboot flash boot boot.img[enter] after you put The boot.img in the same folder as the adb & cd to that folder) and flash cwm for recovery, then you can reflash twrp
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Try flashing the boot.IMG from the the zipped ROM you were trying to flash to boot partition through the bootloader (cmd in windows: fastboot flash boot boot.img[enter] after you put The boot.img in the same folder as the adb & cd to that folder) and flash cwm for recovery, then you can reflash twrp
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I will definitely be trying that. Will be back in a couple of hours and let you know how it went. Thank you!
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I had my phone rooted and unlocked and was also using CleanROM 4.1 before I decided today to change to CleanROM 4.5.
So, I downloaded the file and went to Recovery and flashed it (it did take very little time with flashing which I found rather strange.) When I rebooted, the phone was stuck at the HTC screen. I figured that I MIGHT have had CWM installed and I didn't know it (I can't be quite 100% sure of this as I thought I DID have TWRP since it was a touch recovery that I had.) Since I was able to boot back up to Fastboot, I said "Let me flash the TWRP recovery file and try again".....Well, I did that and according to the Command Prompt it was successful (showed sending, writing, finished etc....) Once finished, I rebooted back and all I see now is the TeamWin logo in Recovery and THAT'S IT. It won't give me any menu options. If I let it sit, it will reboot back to the HTC screen.
What are my options right now? Is there a specific file I can flash through Fastboot that will allow me to proceed?
I would appreciate the help and I'll be sure to come back and let you know how successful I was. :fingers-crossed:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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In the future I suggest factory wipe even if going from CR to CR. Also, make sure to check the MD5 once you move the file on to your storage.
Butters619 said:
In the future I suggest factory wipe even if going from CR to CR. Also, make sure to check the MD5 once you move the file on to your storage.
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I did do the factory wipe.
By the way, I tried what I was told to do and nothing happened. It successfully flashes the boot image and recovery, but when it tries to boot into the recovery, it just freezes in the recovery with the word TEAMWIN and a blue background....No menu or options.... I did try several different ways by downloading and installing several versions of the CWM and TWRP, but no success. Any other suggestions? Will I be stuck with this piece of brick now? Please help.
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****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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^That right there is normal by the way and will always be there.
Looks like it's time for you to relock your bootloader (don't worry you can unlock it again), download an RUU, and try again.
Butters619 said:
^That right there is normal by the way and will always be there.
Looks like it's time for you to relock your bootloader (don't worry you can unlock it again), download an RUU, and try again.
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Ughh! Do you know if I will lose any documents/pictures that are in my USB storage? Which RUU do you think is the best in my case? Thanks!
bbonline said:
Ughh! Do you know if I will lose any documents/pictures that are in my USB storage? Which RUU do you think is the best in my case? Thanks!
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You will lose the contents of your SD card, which is why you should back that up before flashing. Since you were on CR 4.1, I would go with the 1.85 RUU. If you use 2.20, you will add an extra step or two in when it comes to flashing ROMs. But hey, your phone should work again!
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You will lose the contents of your SD card, which is why you should back that up before flashing. Since you were on CR 4.1, I would go with the 1.85 RUU. If you use 2.20, you will add an extra step or two in when it comes to flashing ROMs. But hey, your phone should work again!
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I know, silly me. Usually I backup the data and everything goes well and when I don't, there goes my luck! I really appreciate the suggestion.
One quick question, if in the future I need to have the phone sent in for warranty, is this the same procedure I need to follow? Relock and flash an RUU? Will they not know it had been unlocked before?
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I know, silly me. Usually I backup the data and everything goes well and when I don't, there goes my luck! I really appreciate the suggestion.
One quick question, if in the future I need to have the phone sent in for warranty, is this the same procedure I need to follow? Relock and flash an RUU? Will they not know it had been unlocked before?
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
Butters619 said:
Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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Darn.... I just hope I don't have to deal with sending it for any repair. Gave you thanks!
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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But only if they reboot and look, which from what I've seen here, they never seem to do.
iElvis said:
But only if they reboot and look, which from what I've seen here, they never seem to do.
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I took my One X back to Best Buy to swap it out just before the return policy expired because my gf dropped it and put a small dent in the casing and I didn't even bother to relock or even RUU my device. I said I had a software issue and couldn't get the OTA. They turned it on and played with it and it had a custom boot animation and a ROM on it lol. They also couldn't get the OTA so they approved the return.
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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it doesn't say RELOCKED when you run an RUU. It gets rid of everything like Tampered and Unlocked and returns the phone to LOCKED. like it came
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I took my One X back to Best Buy to swap it out just before the return policy expired because my gf dropped it and put a small dent in the casing and I didn't even bother to relock or even RUU my device. I said I had a software issue and couldn't get the OTA. They turned it on and played with it and it had a custom boot animation and a ROM on it lol. They also couldn't get the OTA so they approved the return.
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hahaha, thank god for company cutbacks sometimes... it makes the employees not give a ****. and rightfully so too!!
the fact that companies cut back to make a few more billion dollars makes me sick anyways. but this is not the place for this conversation. carry-on
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it doesn't say RELOCKED when you run an RUU. It gets rid of everything like Tampered and Unlocked and returns the phone to LOCKED. like it came
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hahaha, thank god for company cutbacks sometimes... it makes the employees not give a ****. and rightfully so too!!
the fact that companies cut back to make a few more billion dollars makes me sick anyways. but this is not the place for this conversation. carry-on
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Nope once you unlocked it won't ever say locked again. Just re-locked
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Nope once you unlocked it won't ever say locked again. Just re-locked
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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You should probably double check that. Anybody with an AT&T One X had to have SuperCID to unlock their bootloader so that wouldn't matter. I have unlocked two AT&T One Xs and run the 1.85 RUU on both (one of them a couple times) and I have run the 2.20 RUU on one. every time it says RELOCKED.
Mine did this to when going to 4.5.
I did the following to get back into Recovery.
Use fastboot to flash the boot.img from the cleanrom 4.5 zip.
"fastboot flash boot boot.img"
I then flashed the recovery (TWRP 2.2.1.4 at the moment) again to the phone.
next I erased Cache.
"fastboot erase cache"
I then used the phone itself to reboot the bootloader and went into recovery. It took about 10 minutes but recovery finally booted.
At this point I had no access to anything on the SD card. so I selected mount and mounted the sd card as disk drive to access it through my PC. I was forced to format the drive at this point and loaded a fresh copy of the ROM onto the drive for flashing.
You probably just got a wrong recovery. The recovery on twrp website didn't work for me. The one I downloaded from the development section works fine.
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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Screenshots PLS
Phone was rooted using TWRP. I locked the bootloader and now I can't boot up into anything but the page with the TAMPERED RELOCKED screen, also has bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. Am I screwed? I just wanted to revert my rooted phone back to the original OS and it's been a freaking NIGHTMARE ):
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Phone was rooted using TWRP. I locked the bootloader and now I can't boot up into anything but the page with the TAMPERED RELOCKED screen, also has bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. Am I screwed? I just wanted to revert my rooted phone back to the original OS and it's been a freaking NIGHTMARE ):
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So you've relocked the bootloader, and then nothing else?
Run the RUU from the bootloader screen. Make sure the RUU is for YOUR phone
That's the thing, I can't get into it! I can't get into that screen where I could access stuff to INSTALL, MOUNT, etc.. it keeps taking me to the white screen with bootloader,reboot, etc.
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That's the thing, I can't get into it! I can't get into that screen where I could access stuff to INSTALL, MOUNT, etc.. it keeps taking me to the white screen with bootloader,reboot, etc.
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Seeing as though you have relocked the bootloader you can either a. unlock the phone again so you can install a custom rom or b. run a ruu to get it back to stock.
Yeah because the problem is i have no OS to boot into. It just goes into recovery mode. Can you point me in the direction on how I can unlock the bootloader again?
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Yeah because the problem is i have no OS to boot into. It just goes into recovery mode. Can you point me in the direction on how I can unlock the bootloader again?
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No no no. You said you wanted to go back to stock correct?
Download your stock RUU, and run from that white menu that says RE-LOCKED at the top. That's your bootloader
Ok, when you mean run from that white menu that says RELOCKED, how can I run it from that menu if I cant get into anything from this menu? Do you mean just run the RUU program from my computer and have my phone connected to the PC? I used to be able to go into that TWRP screen when i was in bootloader but now I can't.
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Ok, that's what I am doing already. I am downloading the RUU for my phone. Hope to gawd this will save my phone. I am just worried because it's literally stuck at this bootloader menu screen. I can't do anything else.
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Believe me, the fact your screen is on is a sign you are not bricked. Run the RUU (Make sure it's one that is easily rootable, like the 1.85 for ATT), and go through the process of bootloader and unlock and rooting. Hope this helped
I am glad to hear that. It's almost done downloading, about 4 minutes left. I really want to thank you for helping me out here. I am such a screw up with this stuff. Sigh. anyways, I'll let you know what happens here shortly. Thank you so much once again. Really..
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
It's working! It's updating and everything. Phew! No offense taken, I hear ya and agree. Just being a noob at all this can put me into a lot of trouble. I have learned a lot of stuff though lol. Anyways, thank you everyone for helping me! I should be good from here
Glad to hear its working
Cheers man, good to hear everything is fixed.
If you need anything else, contact me. There are a bunch of ways to.
As for rooting again? Just read up and you'll be set.
mgutierrez87 said:
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
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Hate to bump heads with ya dude but this isn't the way to be, I frown upon threads like this as well but I encourage others to root no matter who they are. Granted they do need to take the time to research what they are doing and how to get themselves out of a hole like this but someone has to help them learn
This is a community working towards a common goal, you never know maybe this dude will make his way towards development somewhere in the future. Or more likely since others helped him in his time in need he will turn around and try to do the same for someone else
Just my two cents
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Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
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A simple "Be more careful next time because of ..." would have been just fine.
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Hate to bump heads with ya dude but this isn't the way to be, I frown upon threads like this as well but I encourage others to root no matter who they are. Granted they do need to take the time to research what they are doing and how to get themselves out of a hole like this but someone has to help them learn
This is a community working towards a common goal, you never know maybe this dude will make his way towards development somewhere in the future. Or more likely since others helped him in his time in need he will turn around and try to do the same for someone else
Just my two cents
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My apologies. We had been PMing for over an hour before this thread trying to get his phone back. I came off a little rude on that last post but he knows how hard I was trying to help him and that he can always come here for answers. Most forum guys would tell him to "search it"
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how did you fix your phone i almost have same problem
He didn't delete ROM, recovery or anything. He relocked his bootloader. It just won't let you reboot unless you relock with a stock recovery flashed.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982968
Could u guys stop by my thread and help me out?
I kinda have the same problem, and RUU tells me phone is off, error 170.
Thanks
Hi Im a complete Noob for doinf this :silly:
Coming from Htc One there was a method posted on the Htc one forums to get the bootloader locked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475914
And stupid me without thinking I used the command echo -ne '\x00\x00\x00\x00' | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=33796
to reset the unlocked to lock stats.
Well now the phone doesnt even turn on no booloader no recovery nothing, pc detects it as an unkown device but I dont know what to do with it.
is there anyway possible to bring this brick back to life or do i have send it back to google?
Any suggestions or Advice is welcome.
Thanks
If it doesn't turn on I think you're hosed. You messed up one the partitions running the commands you did Please read the pinned (stickies) threads on the general forum before you do anything on your new device.
You wiped an important partition of the phone, and now it won't boot. Looks like you are out of luck. You can probably call Google and tell them your phone won't turn on, but technically that would be lying because you broke it without reading.
If you do get a replacement, and want to unlock the bootloader just get fastboot and type 'fastboot oem unlock'. That's it. This is a Nexus.
You kinda asked for it by attempting to follow a guide that is not for your device. HTC One =/= Nexus 5.
Like the above said, you wiped a partition essential to the function of your device. No way to fix it. Gonna have to send it back to Google, hopefully when you do they won't charge you and will just send you another. They might be used to having a million returns because when a device launchers there is a massive amount of nitpicking customers trying to get replacements and/or their are legit issues with the devices and they won't bother to check whats wrong with your phone. Most likely they will though, and who knows what you'll be charged. Good luck!
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You kinda asked for it by attempting to follow a guide that is not for your device. HTC One =/= Nexus 5.
Like the above said, you wiped a partition essential to the function of your device. No way to fix it. Gonna have to send it back to Google, hopefully when you do they won't charge you and will just send you another. They might be used to having a million returns because when a device launchers there is a massive amount of nitpicking customers trying to get replacements and/or their are legit issues with the devices and they won't bother to check whats wrong with your phone. Most likely they will though, and who knows what you'll be charged. Good luck!
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I hope I do get a replacement , Im in the Uk so i cant get in contact with Google support till Monday now. I was stupid for doing that and I have learned a valuable lesson.
That's what happens when you do not read. Good luck.
xXxG0dzRAgexXx said:
You kinda asked for it by attempting to follow a guide that is not for your device. HTC One =/= Nexus 5.
Like the above said, you wiped a partition essential to the function of your device. No way to fix it. Gonna have to send it back to Google, hopefully when you do they won't charge you and will just send you another. They might be used to having a million returns because when a device launchers there is a massive amount of nitpicking customers trying to get replacements and/or their are legit issues with the devices and they won't bother to check whats wrong with your phone. Most likely they will though, and who knows what you'll be charged. Good luck!
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this just scares me about android. I am getting a nexus 5 soon, and love tweaking with my phones, so im pretty sure theres nothing to worry about, but still.... not trying to troll or anything, but on iPhone, its ridiculously hard to "hard brick". I've seen posts online, but most of the time its just users who end up thinking they've done a fix with no result, when in reality, ive had to fix plenty of iphones in the past, and some have come in horribly screwed up. always been able to fix them and restore though, even if it meant wiping a users data. With android, while I understand there are options to restore and such, it still seems rather easy to totally brick if you miss a step or something were to happen.
hoping I will never have this issue.... :-\
unvaluablespace said:
this just scares me about android. I am getting a nexus 5 soon, and love tweaking with my phones, so im pretty sure theres nothing to worry about, but still.... not trying to troll or anything, but on iPhone, its ridiculously hard to "hard brick". I've seen posts online, but most of the time its just users who end up thinking they've done a fix with no result, when in reality, ive had to fix plenty of iphones in the past, and some have come in horribly screwed up. always been able to fix them and restore though, even if it meant wiping a users data. With android, while I understand there are options to restore and such, it still seems rather easy to totally brick if you miss a step or something were to happen.
hoping I will never have this issue.... :-\
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iPhone's are pretty much impossible to hard brick. Was in the jailbreak scene for 2 and a half years, and there is no way to hard brick one. Very early on it was possible, but not anymore. Android devices are pretty hard to brick usually. Just make sure you follow a guide for your device and all should be well. Only risky thing really is flashing the wrong firmware or radio on a device. Flashing roms, mods, or wiping the entire device is always fixable (not important partitions though, but that's only possible via command terminal like in this case). I was at first scared with my HTC One since it was my first android device, but realized as long as you know what your doing all should go well.
unvaluablespace said:
this just scares me about android. I am getting a nexus 5 soon, and love tweaking with my phones, so im pretty sure theres nothing to worry about, but still.... not trying to troll or anything, but on iPhone, its ridiculously hard to "hard brick". I've seen posts online, but most of the time its just users who end up thinking they've done a fix with no result, when in reality, ive had to fix plenty of iphones in the past, and some have come in horribly screwed up. always been able to fix them and restore though, even if it meant wiping a users data. With android, while I understand there are options to restore and such, it still seems rather easy to totally brick if you miss a step or something were to happen.
hoping I will never have this issue.... :-\
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Don't be too scared. Honestly bricking a nexus device is quite hard as long you are somewhat literate. With most situations (if you have access to the bootloader) you have the option of flashing the factory images which will get your phone up and running 95% of the time. Basically if you can access the bootloader, there is nothing to panic or worry about.
The only reason this guy bricked his phone is because he thought it was a good idea to root his nexus 5 using a guide that teaches you how to unlock the bootloader on an HTC One.
Just make sure you read a bit, understand what you are doing, and don't blindly follow random instructions that you find on the interwebz. If you follow that advice i doubt you will have any problems.
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uronfire said:
Hi Im a complete Noob for doinf this :silly:
Coming from Htc One there was a method posted on the Htc one forums to get the bootloader locked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475914
And stupid me without thinking I used the command echo -ne '\x00\x00\x00\x00' | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=33796
to reset the unlocked to lock stats.
Well now the phone doesnt even turn on no booloader no recovery nothing, pc detects it as an unkown device but I dont know what to do with it.
is there anyway possible to bring this brick back to life or do i have send it back to google?
Any suggestions or Advice is welcome.
Thanks
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Still having issues? I've got a couple of ideas you could try. I managed to fix my nexus after I completely screwed up the bootloader, willing to share how I fixed it
daniel.kusy said:
Still having issues? I've got a couple of ideas you could try. I managed to fix my nexus after I completely screwed up the bootloader, willing to share how I fixed it
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How did you manage to fix yours? Mine's still bricked but can only get access to the bootloader. Have tried every option of flashing factory but still no luck.
How do you brick a Nexus?
I wish I could feel pity but man....
Tell them it won't turn on. Send it back I'm sure they won't know. Hope they don't at least. Better than keeping a paperweight.
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jphilippon said:
How do you brick a Nexus?
I wish I could feel pity but man....
Tell them it won't turn on. Send it back I'm sure they won't know. Hope they don't at least. Better than keeping a paperweight.
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I used ChainFires auto root and it quite simply did not work and bricked my phone. Nothing else to it… it just bricked my N5. No interruptions, all correct drivers installed. Now I'm stuck with a phone displaying unlocked boot loader (which I can lock temporarily using fast boot command.) but when the device restarts into fast boot it's back saying unlocked. Nightmare really.
Meakii said:
I used ChainFires auto root and it quite simply did not work and bricked my phone. Nothing else to it… it just bricked my N5. No interruptions, all correct drivers installed. Now I'm stuck with a phone displaying unlocked boot loader (which I can lock temporarily using fast boot command.) but when the device restarts into fast boot it's back saying unlocked. Nightmare really.
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there is a person in the franco's thread who even corrupted the bootloader he managed to recover using some lg flsh tool something like kdz
it was some kind of methord used to unbrick nexus 4
Meakii said:
How did you manage to fix yours? Mine's still bricked but can only get access to the bootloader. Have tried every option of flashing factory but still no luck.
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have you tried the flash-all.bat (factory image using command prompt from the sdk/platform-tools folder )?
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floxrin said:
have you tried the flash-all.bat (factory image using command prompt from the sdk/platform-tools folder )?
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Yea mate. No luck.
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Yea mate. No luck.
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If you can get into bootloader does fastboot work? If you can get into the bootloader virtually anything can be fixed. What happens when you click the flash all.bat file?
Try LG download mode
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daniel.kusy said:
If you can get into bootloader does fastboot work? If you can get into the bootloader virtually anything can be fixed. What happens when you click the flash all.bat file?
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See the attached. I can't do anything. Every attempt to write anything to the internal SD fails. I wish it could be fixed but have tried everything. Worst part is even after fastboot oem lock cmd when it restarts it's unlocked again. Meaning when I return it warranty will probably be void.
This guy has the same problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=315800
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So i got the notif to update to the latest OTA today and when i tried to i got an error....
i checked superSU and it said that my phone was no longer rooted... and now when i try to do over the rooting process, i.e unlock the bootloader and root... its not working, im using the oneplus one toolbox version 3, i had originally used 2....
when i click unlock bootloader, all the phone does is reboot... which is strange seeing as i know it basicall factory resets the phone after unlocking... anyone have this problem? need help
If you were rooted before, you don't need to re-unlock your bootloader as its already unlocked.
Just go into recovery and flash SuperSU.
Stop using toolkits. Its pretty obvious that you aren't aware of what you're doing and you're just pressing buttons hoping stuff will work.
zephiK said:
If you were rooted before, you don't need to re-unlock your bootloader as its already unlocked.
Just go into recovery and flash SuperSU.
Stop using toolkits. Its pretty obvious that you aren't aware of what you're doing and you're just pressing buttons hoping stuff will work.
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um, no, you couldnt be farther from the truth.. as i have rooted devices already manually.
Also, please disregard this post, i switched the usb port i was using and everything is working now, my front port is faulty...apparently.
JohanXDash said:
um, no, you couldnt be farther from the truth.. as i have rooted devices already manually.
Also, please disregard this post, i switched the usb port i was using and everything is working now, my front port is faulty...apparently.
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If you were already previously rooted, your phone doesn't magically relock its bootloader. The only way for that to happen is if you manually relocked the bootloader which is bad practice if you're relocking your bootloader when its already unlocked. It serves no purpose to relock your bootloader if you did relock it, just leave it unlocked.
You don't have to go through the whole rooting process if your bootloader was already unlocked. All you had to do was flash SuperSU in recovery to reobtain root.
And don't use toolkits, you honestly don't learn anything at all but to click a button and hope it works. Because there is a chance that it will not work and then consequences will be set in place and then you'll have to rely on users who manually input commands on their phone via fastboot because you're not sure how to do it.
I'm currently on my 4th replacement from Verizon. Everytime the phone has either went into an endless bootloader loop where clicking start takes me back to the bootloader and when going to recovery it says "failed to boot to recovery" or turned off and wouldn't turn back on and essentially becomes a bricked phone. Is there anyone else with this problem?
Edit- I'm on stock Android 7.1.1 and not rooted.
Timtube said:
I'm currently on my 4th replacement from Verizon. Everytime the phone has either went into an endless bootloader loop where clicking start takes me back to the bootloader and when going to recovery it says "failed to boot to recovery" or turned off and wouldn't turn back on and essentially becomes a bricked phone. Is there anyone else with this problem?
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Did it work in the Verizon store? I've perhaps seen this once or twice but a replacement device usually worked. But 4 devices? That just doesn't seem real. Not that you're making it up but you need to explain what you are doing before the device goes into a boot loop. Worst case scenario, go to a store and make sure the phone works before you leave.
Weird sounds like you are trying to use depixel8 on an unsupported firmware? And you are bootlooping the phone ?
happened to me on my first device, partly why i havent SU or TWRP yet....just unlocked for future fun...
Mine bricked inbetween twrp and SU....but im sure i messed up somewhere. TWRP worked but as soon as i did SU, it all went wrong for me.....Figured id wait to more stable stuff is out, before messing around again.
mine did the same thing as what your describing...
peace
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I did not unlock the bootloader. I am not rooted. I am using stock Verizon Pixel XL 7.1.1.
well that changes everything, sounds like just bad luck dude
bytethegroove said:
well that changes everything, sounds like just bad luck dude
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I know it sucks. I really like the phone when it works.