So i did the HTC Dev unlock with s-on then installed the team win recovery. Tried to install CM10 with no luck. Installed what i thought was a stock ROM OMJ_EVO_LTE_4.0.3_ICS_Stock_Deodexed.zip
Long story short, been running like this for a few weeks till i can rap my head around this hboot, s-on better but been getting constant lag and occasional artifacts on screen. I also can't seam to get to hboot using the power and down volume button any more. I can get to recovery view titanium backup pro but if i use team win to boot to hboot, it appears to just power off.
Any advice?
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Connect to adb and in console type adb reboot bootloader. You can also use flash image gui to flash cm10 kernel, then go to recovery and flash ROM
This I shall try. Your advice is appreciated!
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My EVO doesn't seam to have the ability to get to the bootloader at this point I can run the windows rooter, boot to recovery and install the Rom mentioned in the op. Then root may or may not work....
The screen is constantly getting curupted. The desktop will not update until I touch it again. Major ***** there. Open an ap, doesn't open, touch glass again and app opens and I'm in setting or something else so I hit home key, nothing, hit again and I'm in widgets! Took me a half-hour just to get this posted. I type a word and about 5 secondslaterit spears. Using a process monitor it looks somewhat normal with nothing running in background killing the CPU or memory.
I'm wondering if my poker accepted an ota update. There was a notice in taskbar when this crap started. I think I need to figure out how to get this back to stock.
I'm running 1.13 and tried RUU 1.13 but that crapped out after the reboot. (bootloader again!)
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Update! I ran RegawMOD EVO 4G LTE Rooter and it completed the root process. I never saw the bootloader/fastboot screen. I can use adb reboot-bootloader to reboot it into bootloader. Again, I have no screen output, it is black. Not even a glow.
So I
Have a funtional Evo 4G LTE but
1) bootloader/fastboot can be accessed via CMD/ adb reboot-bootloader AND power+VOL down and will repond to commands via command line. No display output.
2) can get to twrp 2.2 recovery via adb reboot recovery twrp screen output corrupted and difficult to use.
3) I can get to the rom but screen input is one step behind. IE Power on, in sleep with screen off.... Hit power button, display is corrupted. Slide the unlock ring and I see the unlock screen, touch the area where msg icon is and i see the home screen. touch the area where the first txt thread is and see the default txt screen. Touch where the txt box is and see the thread but the keyboard doesn't show tho it is there... (That would explain the garbled post up above lol)
I'm getting pretty good at "blind" operating this thing but dang....
So at this time, I just flashed the boot image of meanrom via flash image gui because i got fastboot unrooted again as said at the begining of this post. Currently trying to install the rom via twrp. I think. It is currently displaying the swip to flash screen. The swip bar doesn't move so I am not 100% on this yet. Might need to try again.
Does anyone know how to get hboot info via fastboot command line? (I have no screen output as I said) I want to check to see what version I am dealing with. Last post quote:I'm wondering if my poker accepted an ota update. should have been I'm wondering if my pocket accepted an ota update.
Thanks in advance!
Im hoping someone else will chime in but in the meantime, search for diagnosis on your partions, worse case get your phone into bootloader mode and RUU. It looks to me like your partitions are screwed up.
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Dude, thanks for the input. The more I worked this cell the slower it got. I did get RUU 2.13 to stick to this phone after many other RUU and resetting attempt failures. Got it back to 'broken' stock and visited Sprint.
Tech guys said that the screen is fubar, replacement time. Got to send it back, need $35 please. The way they explained it, I would give them the phone and I would get a new one in the mail in about a week or two, After fighting this thing for a week I was not ready to hear that and kinda went off on them because they couldn't release store stock. I embarrassed myself by being a total asshole and walked out with my poo evo, Sorry guys.
Today, with a few wawa gift cards (they have good coffee) I went back and apologized for my indiscretions and they did an expedited return meaning that they send a new one and then I send the broken one back. Thanks Sprint and sorry again to the the guys for my temper.
MODS, This thread can be killed.
Thanks for the help folks.
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So, long story short, took the Phone into Sprint so they could look at my headphone jack (was cracked and left ear bud would constantly cut in and out) because its acting up.
Gave the Tech the phone without the battery in it (since he didn’t need to power up the device to clearly see the headphone jack has a huge crack in it) but I left my SD card installed. As he was walking away, I asked him if I could remove my SD card and he let me, then seen that I gave him the phone without a battery. So, I ended up giving it to him (praying he didn’t turn it on and see ViperBoys sick ass ROM booting up) and he accidently pressed the power button turning the phone on. Promptly short after, he removed the battery when the phone was on the HTC screen, didn’t even get the boot animation. I was like OHH $h!t, that gonna mess up my phone & sure as $h!t, it did… Just loops in and out of that screen resetting each time with a little vibrate then looping.
I can get into Fastboot and use ADB, I’ve flashed RUU’s, put Stock image on root of SD and let recovery restore (losing my CWM & my HBOOT 1.400), unlocked, relocked, wiped, thrown, and screamed at it with no luck.
I did do a CWM backup before even setting foot in the Store, so I do have a backup. The 1st thing I tried was restoring it through CWM recovery and that didn’t stop the looping. I can still get into fastboot via power + vol down and adb functionality is still there.
HBOOT is 1.50 and s-on is enabled..
Been reading through threads since lunch and tried many different solutions without success. It seems once a phone is this far gone, people stop responding.
Anyone have any ideas?
New phone will be here tomorrow (free of coarse courtesy of Sprint insurance) but I’ve been without a phone all day and most of yesterday. I’d like to get this one back to stock and booting before I trade it in for the replacement tomorrow
So you ran an RUU and it still didnt work? And you're sure the RUU SUCCESSFULLY ran without any parts of it failing right?
If that's true, there's no hope AFAIK. Try to get it not to show the bootanimation by bricking it further.
yousefak said:
So you ran an RUU and it still didnt work? And you're sure the RUU SUCCESSFULLY ran without any parts of it failing right?
If that's true, there's no hope AFAIK. Try to get it not to show the bootanimation by bricking it further.
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Yup, RUU ran though fine and finished without error. Thing has been rooted since Revolutionary came out with the 1st rooting scheme for the 3D.. Flashed tons of ROM's never had this problem.
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Yup, RUU ran though fine and finished without error. Thing has been rooted since Revolutionary came out with the 1st rooting scheme for the 3D.. Flashed tons of ROM's never had this problem.
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My only explanation is that while he removed the battery some of your hardware got borked. This can't possibly be a software issue.
yousefak said:
My only explanation is that while he removed the battery some of your hardware got borked. This can't possibly be a software issue.
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BUMMER! In case the question comes up I ran "RUU_Shooter_S_Sprint_WWE_2.17.651.5_Radio_1.06.00.1216_NV_NV_spcs_1.42_release_233304_signed" and it ran just fine.
Hmm, hardware issue. Dont see how I can check for that if it doesnt boot.
Guess I'll just have to wait for the new Phone
try to fastboot oem lock it from fastboot. Then RUU, see if that works.
Why even get this one to work if you are getting a replacement?
Sprint is just going to put the phone back to stock....
jdeoxys said:
try to fastboot oem lock it from fastboot. Then RUU, see if that works.
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The HTC unlock went as expected. Followed the directions to the "T", then relocked, checked in fastboot (not that I could check anywhere else, LOL) and the phone says "*** RELOCKED***". Ran 2.17.651.5 RUU successfully to the finish. Still looping
WEIRD!
DarkManX4lf said:
Why even get this one to work if you are getting a replacement?
Sprint is just going to put the phone back to stock....
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Because I just want to know WTF happened!!! Had this Phone since release, abused\used the hell out of it by flashing ROMs constantly, restoring backups, tethering like crazy, emailing, texting, FBing...
No reason for it to crap out on me from a simple mistake, not even of my responsibility, lol!
The only issue I've had with this Phone is that damn headphone jack 1/2 way failing..
Got new phone, terrified to even think about trying to flash new ROM though
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Got new phone, terrified to even think about trying to flash new ROM though
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LULZ
Same problem with me happened.. Except I had hboot 1.5 and I went one month or two without rooting because I was scared to brick it. I ended up rooting it with desperation and I found my one true love ZR3D rom.
BEAUTIFUL, FAST, plus 4.0 skins ;D. Do it man
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Threevo said:
LULZ
Same problem with me happened.. Except I had hboot 1.5 and I went one month or two without rooting because I was scared to brick it. I ended up rooting it with desperation and I found my one true love ZR3D rom.
BEAUTIFUL, FAST, plus 4.0 skins ;D. Do it man
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DONT TEMPT ME DAMMIT! lol! Just been without a phone for almost 3 days. I'm also seeing a lot of new threads about people experiencing what I've gone through.
Woops, sprint\HTC! once again rooted, and running viperROM.... SWWWWWET!
HBOOT 1.5 and s-on is a *****!
Not to mention... But in Linux, I never got revo recovery to flash... You can do it in windows just do it via fastboot.
Took my Orig cwm bsckup "recovery" & "boot" .img and threw them @ the phone via command prompt.
After cwm was restored, I restored my 4\29\2012 backup that I made before I entered the Sprint store, now my phone is back to the exact same way
It was. Pretty Damn sweet!
So much info here!! I'm truly thankful!!!
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Turned my Sprint CDMA EVO 3D (S-OFF, rooted, MeanROM ICS 1.4) on today and the screen flickerd and went out, it still rings when I call it and I think touch is OK since I was able to hang up on myself by tapping in the right place. I have Sprint total protection, but I want to flash back to stock, unroot, and S-ON so they don't get any funny ideas. Can I do this through USB and ADB? USB debugging is on.
Thanks!
If the screen is dead, there is no way sprint could tell it's rooted.
Philolagnos said:
Turned my Sprint CDMA EVO 3D (S-OFF, rooted, MeanROM ICS 1.4) on today and the screen flickerd and went out, it still rings when I call it and I think touch is OK since I was able to hang up on myself by tapping in the right place. I have Sprint total protection, but I want to flash back to stock, unroot, and S-ON so they don't get any funny ideas. Can I do this through USB and ADB? USB debugging is on.
Thanks!
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Well if the screen is out, they'd have to fix it before finding out your rooted and unlocked! I'd say just send it in, as is. But I do think the unroot method is done only on the computer if you're really worried about it.
If ur that worried about it bat pull put an ruu on ur sdcard flash that then fastboot oem writesecureflag 3 and ur done
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Asurion
Somthing similar happend to me i was not able to unroot my phone because my phone did not connect to the computer. My screen was often getiing stuck on the lower part of the phone and home botton did not work. Turned of my phone and called asurion paid my deductable and they send me a refurbished phone. I belive they will charge younfor the repair if the phone is rooted, even tho they will fix it ferst if u call them they will tell you that on the term and conditions.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
Arceo85 did you have Sprint Total Protection and they still made you pay?
I've read the horror stories about local stores flipping out when they hear you rooted your device. One guy on here last summer mentioned it in the store, they never saw it they just blacklisted it by marking his device as stolen. He kept calling the CEO about it, got a hold of internal memos saying not to **** with rooted users, etc. not sure how that ended. Regardless I'd rather have everything in shipped condition when I bring it in tomorrow.
I've been using Android Screencast to view my phone through my PC, thankfully the touchscreen is still working as ICS currently has no mouse/keyboard support in the app.
https://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
got on there and made a full titanium backup, used 4ext's software to reboot into an automated nandroid backup since the recovery screen is garbled through Screencast.
Then it got ugly.
I used an app to reboot into bootloader, waited and pressed power once to get into fastboot, I set the flag through the command line and rebooted. Device never showed up on ADB again. I still haven't flashed the RUU (the default USB debugging in the RUU is off and I figured cutting my lifeline would be the last step). I battery pulled, waited 2 min and turned it on, no adb, waited for it to boot like 10 min and called it- went straight to voicemail. It's apparently bricked.
I'm going to try this unbrick now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627917
At least I have the backups.
My volume-up button went bad about 3 months ago, I walked into the Sprint store (The Parks Mall in Arlington TX) and asked them if they could repair the button. The rep took my phone and immediately did a reboot and the MeanROM bootscreen appeared, lol. He asked what rom I was running and I told him and he said "cool!" and walked away and came back a few minutes later with another EVO 3D (refurb), handed it to me and said "Have a great day!"
Took it in yesterday, they exchanged it no questions asked. Just finished downgrading and restoring my nandroid. Thanks everyone!
Philolagnos said:
Took it in yesterday, they exchanged it no questions asked. Just finished downgrading and restoring my nandroid. Thanks everyone!
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You shouldn't restore nandroids from other phones. Especially with wimax, you can easily overwrite your wimax keys.
If your screen ever dies try using an mhl adapter. As long as the touch input is ok
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Hey guys, quite honestly this is just a post-mortem help I felt I would want to chime in with. I just had almost a heart attack last night thinking I bricked my HTC Raider 4G / HTC Holiday / HTC Vivid / HTC Velocity 4G - Whatever you want to call it, it's the same phone. BTW, the captcha on this site and the discrimination towards new users is borderline a war crime
I want to ensure you that if you followed the whole Juopunutbear S-off bootloop / ControlBear method - your phone is NOT BRICKED. Mine wasn't, and I almost gave up on it last night. I ended up trading my HTC Raider 4G with someone for a Samsung Galaxy S III, but I wanted to touch base and just give you a heads up as to what I did (as best my memory serves me).
My situation was as follows:
1) I used the whole S-Off Toolkit By Hasoon2000 - and actually got S-Off (Security Off)
2) I followed to a tee, with all of it's "beer" references and did the whole "wire-trick" see picture below, I had to pull out my lab lamp light to see it and was getting more and more angry as the evening progressed.
3) My phone was stuck in the Juopunutbear S-Off Bootloop (or Boot Loop as some put it)
4) I could get the phone into Recovery/Fastboot (whatever you want to call it.)
Here is what I did to fix it:
1) Get yourself your OEM RUU (This is the Original Equipment Manufacturer Rom Update Utility), I hate acronyms so I will clarify as I go. You can download these at the following link (If you come back to this page a year from now and the links are broken, Google them by the exact file name, I am certain someone out there will keep backups forever. The link below surely has your carrier, e.g. Telstra etc. Follow the instructions and download your RUU for your carrier:
http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/
2) Pull the battery out of your HTC Raider / Holiday / Vivid / Velocity
3) Re-insert the battery into the phone
4) Press the volume down button + power and hold until the "Bootloader" or "Recovery" or "HBoot" or "Fastboot" screen comes up - many names for it.
5) Once the screen has come up, click on Fastboot and connect it to your computer. If it detects your computer it will say "Fastboot USB", this is good and it will look like the image at the bottom.
6) Once the phone is connected, run the specific file name for your phone based on carrier from point number 1.
7) Leave the phone plugged in and running, and it will basically flash the phone back to OEM - at least this way you can have a useable phone and will allow you to retreat/regroup and fight another day.
Fastboot USB Photo - Get your phone to look like this by going through the menus, it won't take more than 10 seconds
http://i47.tinypic.com/ru5m55.png
My Lab Setup - With The "Wire Trick" + Lamp and me getting more and more pissed off.
http://i48.tinypic.com/dyng9v.jpg
I hope this helps, I was quite honestly pulling my hair out trying to find out more information/help but it was just almost impossible to find for this phone - I think the reduced user base is partially to blame for this. My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S I9000 and I had absolutely no issues with support. I've learned my lesson and devices to back out, I now have a nice Samsung Galaxy S 3. If you need anything - I think you can PM me. P.S. I ran both Virtuous Inquisition ROM as well as Wajee's 1.5 and they were ok - Wajee was a bit better.
All that typing and you didn't even post for the correct device
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You could just have use the controlbear -r command..iirc
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Spastic909 said:
All that typing and you didn't even post for the correct device
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Long night, i'll be moving this. or reposting there.
ce3jay said:
You could just have use the controlbear -r command..iirc
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I did, it did not help anything. It kept going into the Juopunutbear arrow down screen.
This is still good advice. Just needs minor tweaking for Amaze and you got yourself a deal!
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Dear Whom Can Help,
My sincere apologies if this thread feels redundant, but other threads dealing with restoring this phone are starting from steps well beyond an initial, and/or are using jargon that is at opaque at best from an outsider...
To reduce to salient points:
I bought a used HTC Evo 4G LTE through Glyde.com to port it over to Ting. The previous owner must have been one of your folk, a phone modder / tinkerer / developer / what have you, because it came in an obviously altered state. (Something called Beanstalk loading, terminal apps, etc.)
I don't want any of this. I respect those that want to root and modify their phone, and as a security and a network design consultant I understand the concepts behind all of it, but I also know when and where I want to apply my time. And I don't want to spend it learning about rooting and messing with my phone. And even if I do want to root it someday, I want to root it from scratch myself, not hope that the last person to have the phone didn't put anything nefarious on it (unlikely) or just did stuff I don't understand (likelier).
So I want the phone back to a completely clean factory state. But I don't know any of the precepts and assumptions that all the "unrooting" conversations I've seen have and make. (Basically, all the unrooting stuff assumes you were the one that rooted it, and so already know the jargon.)
Here's where I'm at:
HTC Evo 4G LTE. The phone is in TMRP v2.3.1.0. There are no packages to restore. There is no external microSD card (I can certainly buy one if it's required). I cannot even reboot, as there is "No OS Installed! Are you sure you wish to reboot?"* I can connect the phone via USB to my Windows laptop, if I would need to copy files to it or something.
So, I'm looking to, whether within TWRP or copying a ROM and rebooting the phone or whatever, have the phone back to naked, like I bought it fresh and new, state.
Can someone help me do this? The other questions along these lines point to websites like shipped-roms.com that have pretty names listed like Runnymede and Puccini, but nowhere to explain that my phone is Shooter or Supersonic or what have you. And while I'm pretty computer-savvy, I don't pretend to have any idea what the referents are to statements like "Like how do I get back to fully stock? Or should I be trying to re-root to RUU again? Moonshine doesn't recognize my device in fastboot us..."
I appreciate anyone's time, so I don't have to return this phone. I have already spent a good three-plus hours trying to tackle this, and I fear when I die and my life is flashing before my eyes, this time will be the most boring of the whole lot of it.
Thanks greatly for anyone's time,
Me
* Now, I am aware that I pretty much brought the phone to a worse place, with no OS / no restore points or whatever you kids these days call them, probably while I was trying to restore it to a factory default, which I thought was going to be as simple as clicking on the factory reset option within Android. In any case, yes I made it worse. But I'm at where I'm at, and it's still the dude's fault who sold me a phone without reverting it.
Power the phone completely off. Once off, press the volume down+power button and list all the info displayed on the screen. Then we'll go from there.
If you need to get your phone up & running right now, click the last link in my sig.
Also, I've never flashed to a different carrier, but I believe your phone must be rooted to do so, so at this point you just need to get your phone up and running by flashing a ROM.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
Thanks for your insanely quick reply. Luckily, I just got this phone and haven't activated it yet or anything, so there's not a huge time pressure, though I may have to return it.
Unluckily - this is going to sound like incompetence but I swear it's not - I powered off and rebooted but it's simply hanging on the "HTC quietly brilliant" splash screen, rather than listing any system attributes. This may be because the volume down button (I've just noticed now) may not be depressing properly - up has an actual 'click' feel, but down does not.
I'll keep trying to reboot it with the volume down button depressed.
Thanks much for your response!
ACK
No problem. Click the bottom link in my sig and let's get you up and running so you actually have a working ROM on your phone.
Also, if you can get back to TWRP recovery, choose the option to reboot to bootloader, then list the info on that screen.
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FinZ28 said:
Also, I've never flashed to a different carrier, but I believe your phone must be rooted to do so, so at this point you just need to get your phone up and running by flashing a ROM.
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Ting is a Sprint MVNO, and normally doesn't require rooted phones, just a Sprint-compatible one. There's a little work you have to do on the front-end to activate it with Ting, but it's usually minor. I was worried that the rooting that was done to do this phone could actually **prevent** activation with Ting, which was one reason I was looking to restore to factory state.
It shouldn't affect you being able to flash to Ting.
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No problem. Click the bottom link in my sig and let's get you up and running so you actually have a working ROM on your phone.
Also, if you can get back to TWRP recovery, choose the option to reboot to bootloader, then list the info on that screen.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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Audible sigh. No luck on the reboot - I hold power for ten seconds, screen goes black, then a vibration and the "HTC quietly brilliant" splash screen, but it stays there. Holding the Volume Down button before, during, or after seems to have no effect; again, it may be because the volume down button is bad - I can feel volume up click, but volume down is mushy. (Since it wasn't my phone until today, I don't actually know if the button was working or not.)
ACK
Once the screen goes black hold the volume down button in. If nothing happens, well, there are obviously other issues.
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FinZ28 said:
Once the screen goes black hold the volume down button in. If nothing happens, well, there are obviously other issues.
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The phone simply reboots to the splash screen.
I guess I'll just return the phone to the seller. Thanks for your time!
softyelectric said:
The phone simply reboots to the splash screen.
I guess I'll just return the phone to the seller. Thanks for your time!
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Make sure fastboot is UNchecked in setting->power then try again.
If fastboot is checked it won't go to bootloader
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Make sure fastboot is UNchecked in setting->power then try again.
If fastboot is checked it won't go to bootloader
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I appreciate that, but with all due respect I don't know what that means... there's nothing to check or uncheck. I was once in TWRP, if that's where the 'fastboot' option was, but after FinZ28's recommendation to "Power the phone completely off. Once off, press the volume down+power button and list all the info displayed on the screen", the phone simply boots to the "HTC quietly brilliant" splash screen and does nothing else. I can't re-access TWRP, or anything else, for that matter.
Thanks for your time!
Ok try this, power down let it go completely off then press the power button and vol down button release the power button after 3 seconds while still holding the vol down and see if it will boot to bootloader
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Make sure fastboot is UNchecked in setting->power then try again.
If fastboot is checked it won't go to bootloader
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The phone doesn't have a ROM installed, it seems.
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The phone doesn't have a ROM installed, it seems.
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE
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yeah i figured that out after reading the Op lol
bigdaddy619 said:
Ok try this, power down let it go completely off then press the power button and vol down button release the power button after 3 seconds while still holding the vol down and see if it will boot to bootloader
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Thanks. I tried that / trying right right no, to no avail. I hold "power" and "volume down", let go of "power" while still holding "volume down", and it simply goes to the "htc quietly brilliant" splash screen. It stays there until the battery dies.
When the phone's battery died, and I plugged it in again, the three 'hard' buttons at the bottom did flash, but then again the phone goes to the splash screen and stays there, seemingly no bootloader / other information.
Originally Posted by FinZ28 View Post
"The phone doesn't have a ROM installed, it seems."
No ROM, I wouldn't think; there was one when I first got the phone yesterday, but clearly I inadvertently deleted it when trying to revert the phone back to a clean slate. My bad on that, though the seller should never have sold me a rooted phone with a bunch of unknown apps on it in the first place (at least without indicating it was a rooted phone, which I wouldn't have chosen to purchase in the first place).
Thanks for your time!
My htc one m8 is unable to send and receive MMS messages. I've been on the phone with tech support since this morning. I'm going to take the phone back and possibly sway it out for another one. I had unlocked the boot-loader and I had rooted the device.
Since im returning it I relocked the boot-loader but its still showing
***TAMPERED*** and ***RELOCKED*** on the boot-loader screen.
Three questions.
How do i unroot it?
Do i need to flash the a ruu file to get it back to normal? if so where can i find it.
Dude... There it's no ruu yet. The phone just launched. We me than likely won't get one until well after your return exchange period expires. I'min a similar boat as my computer refuses to fully flash twrp to mine and now I can't boot into recovery at all. I'll probably needtowait for an ruu as well. Good luck, hope you can just get the issue resolved because exvhangingwould be a bad idea with your device in its current state. Have you tried getting a new SIM card for your device? I actually work for att and more often than not a new SIM will fix a data/mms issue.
We tried a lot of trouble shooting. Its definitely the phone. I took the sim out the phone and popped it into my nexus 5 and I was able to send and receive MMS without an issue.
Im new to HTC and if i knew they were so high maintenance I would of never gotten it. lol
maybe if i can find the stock recovery i can reflash that and that should take care of the tampered snitch and ill just take it back with the relocked showing
generally they're not terribly high maintenance, but anything compared to a nexus is high lol. Also, had you gotten the developer version it wouldn't be high maintenance either. The maintenance comes from the carrier lock and having to bypass it. not trying to flame, but if you didn't purchase the dev edition or the GPe version then you bear the risk. Then either way, htc states that by unlocking you waive your right to your warranty. Again, not being a jerk or trying to be mean, but next time I would take at least a few hours to test basic functions before jumping into it. If you already had and it was working fine before, something must have went wrong during the unlock/root process. Either way, let's just hope an RUU drops before your R/E runs out. You'll still have your warranty but we all know the potential risks of getting a "like-new replacement".
p.s. i would still try a new sim. over time heat can wear away the laminated coating on the sim where it touches the contacts on the inside of the phone. It's an outside shot and might not help at all but it would definitely be a more feasible option to try at the moment.
i found this hope it helps.
AT&T HTC One M8 unroot utilizing SuperSU or TWRP recovery
This is the first method that you can try using SuperSU.
Open Play store to see if there is a new update for SuperSU, to make sure you are running the most recent version.
Run it from app drawer.
Go to the Settings section above, scroll down the hit Full unroot option. You’ll see a warning message, just tap continues to start the uninstall process.
Once done, the phone will reboot. Your phone should unrooted now after boots up.
at&t htc one m8 unroot
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If the above method does not work to unroot AT&T HTC One M8, we are going to tell you how doing it manually.
Boot your phone to TWRP recovery mode by turn off your phone then presses Vol up + Power to boot into bootloader then choose RECOVERY. There is a more simple way, by using “adb reboot recovery”.
Once came into TWRP main menu, now tap Mount -> Mount system then taps Home.
Tap Advanced -> File Manager, browse to “/system/xbin” folder. From there delete su, daemonsu or busybox if it exists. Also browse to “/system/app” the get rid of Superuser.apk.
Thanks for the awesome reply. I followed the info you posted and it worked!
0pen said:
Thanks for the awesome reply. I followed the info you posted and it worked!
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So does that get rid of the tampered flag? Did you find any way to reset the "relocked" to locked?
Need to exchange mine also.
gsxrfl1k6 said:
So does that get rid of the tampered flag? Did you find any way to reset the "relocked" to locked?
Need to exchange mine also.
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NO
its still there :crying:
0pen said:
My htc one m8 is unable to send and receive MMS messages. I've been on the phone with tech support since this morning. I'm going to take the phone back and possibly sway it out for another one..
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I'm having problems sending MMS messages as well, but my phone is completely stock. Did you make any progress in diagnosing the problem?
Thanks
How to remove "tampered" banner: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708565
Bammeh said:
How to remove "tampered" banner: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708565
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Yep that's been around for a while now. I've used these instructions on my AT&T m8 and got the tampered thing removed.
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Mine was giving me this issue As well. Do a hard reset or check your apn settings. Mine started working after I did that
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