So long story short I have this thunderbolt that is not working any longer. All of this happened over a year ago so I am vague on what I did to get the phone in its currently ruined state. It was rooted with the stock image and after trying to put a CM rom on it that didn't work I mistakenly booted into the phones recovery instead of clock work.
I now get a security warning and it is now s-on. If i do a recovery or factory reset it just boots back into the bootloader. Attached is an image of what is current on the screen when I power it on. I can't get ADB working on this pc but my spare rig has it working in OSX. ADB does not display the device. I have a way to get files onto the sd card but I am still kinda new to all of this stuff and just looking for some help. So where do I proceed from here?
I am going out of my mind.
So the phone just literally booted into my rooted rom. So now the question is, how do I get rid of the security warning and get s-off permanently?
At my end.
After a long day of trying to fix this thing and crawling all over the internet reading different posts I officially don't have a damn clue as to how to fix this. I am pretty sure the bootloader is corrupted and seeing as the phone is so old now it's really hard to find working links to downloads for this device.
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Some of you might have seen my earlier thread, my ReZound is rooted. HTC sent out the ICS update my phone attempted to install it and afterwards it would not advance past the white HTC screen. After many hours of playing around with it (being semi-noobish to all things rooting, but decently knowledable with technology) I realized that on the H-boot screen it was telling me that the Image was missing. I assumed that the HTC update deleted it? After thinking about it, I thought that maybe installing a custom ROM would fix this, so I grabbed Scotts Clean ROM. Sure enough I did and I was finally able to advance past the white HTC screen. It looks as if everything is working fine with the phone now EXCEPT I have no data and no calling connection. Im assuming that my phone is just that messed up from the attempted upgrade this morning that im missing files needed for the connection.
My next thought was to just say heck with it and do a factory reset hoping to get back to a bone stock phone that at least functioned, but when I try the factory reset it doesnt work....
Any ideas of what I should do next? Ive spent 5-6 hrs trying to fix this phone today, I really hope to get something figured out. Thank you everyone for your help!
EDIT: I feel like an idiot... Because of putting the battery in and out for resets I left the back off the phone. I now have service. Main issue now is that when I try to call out, as soon as I type a number on the dialer it freezes up and restarts itself....
The phone still tries to look for the old image on the restart and gives me issues every time on startup still also. Id like to be able to get this back to not needing a ROM....
If it were me, I would download the official RUU for ICS found here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...cream-sandwich-ruu-for-final-ota-3-14-605-12/ IIRC, mirror #3 was the fastest. Then follow the directions from that site:
After downloading the file, rename it to "PH98IMG.zip" (no quotes)
Place the renamed file onto the root of the SD Card
Power down your device
Reboot into the bootloader by holding VOL DOWN + Power
The flashing process should begin automatically
Let the device reboot, and you should be done.
That will get you up and running. Then you can go about rooting it again if you like.
Here is where I was at, ready to throw away the phone I ruined. I was rooted and S-ON and unlocked via HTC unlock bootloader web page. I was happily trying new things here when my phone went to all white background with green HTC letters. Wouldnt do anything. While trying to fix that I erased my backup and the software on the phone. I let the phone sit all day hoping the white backgound would go away but no. It wouldnt even power off. But I able to get into bootloader by doing this: Hold down power and volume up for 10 seconds, as soon as the screen goes blank slide finger down to volume down and hold. This got me into boot loader. I tried all the things outlined here to recover (using abd commands, fastboot *.img files nandroid backups, sideloading etc. My CID shows CWS_001 and next to the OS field is blank. Pulled the SIM and SD card to erase cache, no help. Wipe delvick, data, etc all failed with the E: unable to mount message. 2 Days gone by with not even a glimmer of recovering phone
So I went to HTC support download news (sorry cant post a link until 10 posts) and downloaded the RUU that contains the 4.4.3 update. This is an exe file that updates your phone. It failed on the first go. So I relocked the phone using wonders_never_cease M8 all in one kit, then double clicked on the RUU app again. It took off and ran. It is menu driven so I answered all the acknowledgements and got to the update screen. On that screen "current version field was blank and update to field reflected the new RUU version. The instructions tell you to put your phone into recovery mode and select fastboot. My Windows PC already had the HTC drivers loaded. I was shocked when the app began loading modules without failing. I didnt have to do anything except put attach usb cable to phone from PC and put the phone in fastboot. 10 mins later, the phone rebooted and my hated ATT logo and tune showed. Am up and running on 4.4.3 and new firmware.
Everything works fine on the phone (no modules missing). So it appears the "upgrade" will wipe partition and reload all the software on the phone without doing much of anything else. Thought I post this up for any other semi-noob that got into trouble and just wants a working phone. I am not sure a phone that is S-OFF would work but it doesnt hurt to try. I do understand HTC stopped the OTA update due to battery draining issues but the download is still available for fastboot. Am just happy to have a working phone. Now will make a backup in TWRP immediately. Over and out....Michael
sethandian said:
Here is where I was at, ready to throw away the phone I ruined. I was rooted and S-ON and unlocked via HTC unlock bootloader web page. I was happily trying new things here when my phone went to all white background with green HTC letters. Wouldnt do anything. While trying to fix that I erased my backup and the software on the phone. I let the phone sit all day hoping the white backgound would go away but no. It wouldnt even power off. But I able to get into bootloader by doing this: Hold down power and volume up for 10 seconds, as soon as the screen goes blank slide finger down to volume down and hold. This got me into boot loader. I tried all the things outlined here to recover (using abd commands, fastboot *.img files nandroid backups, sideloading etc. My CID shows CWS_001 and next to the OS field is blank. Pulled the SIM and SD card to erase cache, no help. Wipe delvick, data, etc all failed with the E: unable to mount message. 2 Days gone by with not even a glimmer of recovering phone
So I went to HTC support download news (sorry cant post a link until 10 posts) and downloaded the RUU that contains the 4.4.3 update. This is an exe file that updates your phone. It failed on the first go. So I relocked the phone using wonders_never_cease M8 all in one kit, then double clicked on the RUU app again. It took off and ran. It is menu driven so I answered all the acknowledgements and got to the update screen. On that screen "current version field was blank and update to field reflected the new RUU version. The instructions tell you to put your phone into recovery mode and select fastboot. My Windows PC already had the HTC drivers loaded. I was shocked when the app began loading modules without failing. I didnt have to do anything except put attach usb cable to phone from PC and put the phone in fastboot. 10 mins later, the phone rebooted and my hated ATT logo and tune showed. Am up and running on 4.4.3 and new firmware.
Everything works fine on the phone (no modules missing). So it appears the "upgrade" will wipe partition and reload all the software on the phone without doing much of anything else. Thought I post this up for any other semi-noob that got into trouble and just wants a working phone. I am not sure a phone that is S-OFF would work but it doesnt hurt to try. I do understand HTC stopped the OTA update due to battery draining issues but the download is still available for fastboot. Am just happy to have a working phone. Now will make a backup in TWRP immediately. Over and out....Michael
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congratulations that you restore your device. the link for the RUU its already posted in the General Forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-htc-one-m8/general/htc-one-m8-ruu-m8ul-4-4-3-t2860423
also a bootable no pc version of it http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...-2-23-502-3-bootable-ruu-pc-required-t2860486
as well as the OTA http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-htc-one-m8/general/htc-m8-4-4-3-official-ota-t2860139
t5620 said:
congratulations that you restore your device. the link for the RUU its already posted in the General Forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-htc-one-m8/general/htc-one-m8-ruu-m8ul-4-4-3-t2860423
also a bootable no pc version of it http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...-2-23-502-3-bootable-ruu-pc-required-t2860486
as well as the OTA http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-htc-one-m8/general/htc-m8-4-4-3-official-ota-t2860139
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Thanks for posting up the links.
sethandian said:
Here is where I was at, ready to throw away the phone I ruined.
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As long as the screen comes on for this phone, its virtually always recoverable. There was never any reason to think you had to throw away the phone. Next time you are stuck, just ask for help here; as we are happy to help. You did the right thing in trying to find existing solutions. But it sounds like you did your due diligence searching and reading; and would have been justified starting a new thread and asking for help.
sethandian said:
Everything works fine on the phone (no modules missing). So it appears the "upgrade" will wipe partition and reload all the software on the phone without doing much of anything else.
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That is precisely what the RUU does. Its a complete image, and handy for recovery purposes.
sethandian said:
I do understand HTC stopped the OTA update due to battery draining issues but the download is still available for fastboot. l
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While the OTA has had some reports of causing battery issues, the RUU has not had any reports of such issue, and seems to be free of it.
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I am not sure a phone that is S-OFF would work but it doesnt hurt to try.
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S-off does not affect whether or not the RUU will work, I don't know why folks keep saying or asking this. RUU will work whether S-on or S-off. The only difference, is that with S-on, you need to either have a LOCKED bootloader, or RELOCKED (relock it manually if you unlocked it).
Also, in general, S-off does not limit anything. It means "all security off" and enables more access, not the opposite. If anything, S-off enables more things than S-on.
Thanks for the all the info. The experience was a valuable teaching moment. Now back to playing around with the M8.
This started when my phone was acting out on Viper 4.0 rom and I figured I'd wipe it and start fresh, wiped the phone & ROM no longer booted, went to the forum to see if there is anything new to tryout & found dirty unicorn so I thought hey that's different (for me) let's give it a shot. Long story short the phone never came back until I relocked & used a factory RUU and it worked but phone was now locked & back to stock. Phone is S-Off by the way.
Today was a new day and I was determined to either get a new rom on my phone or go back to Viper 4.0, unlocked hboot & rooted the phone, installed the newest TWRP 2.8.01 and decided ok everything looks good let's see what happens, Dirty Unicorn requires that you copy ROM to internal storage then flash and this is where the first problem occurred; I couldn't mount internal storage so I thought meh I'll just boot the factory rom & connect as USB storage so I did that, back into recovery and somehow internal storage is not in either file manager or could I get to it from the install screen. I gave up & decided to go ahead & flash from Micro-SD which didn't work, tried to wipe & fail, tried to fix permissions and fail, every time I reboot it asked to reinstall supersu so I tried to flash the most recent zip I had and sure enough fail finally one of my zips worked and I hit reboot, that was the end of my phone.....
Right now - phone is completely blank, power does nothing, power+vol down does nothing, power+vol down+vol up does nothing. When I plug the phone into PC it shows up as QHSUSB_DLOAD RUU doesn't work and fastboot commands return nothing.
ummm what do I do?
oh & the second phone was a friend's phone that he gave up on gave to me to fix for him, of course that's bricked too but I have a feeling it'll come back maybe after the battery dies, haven't tried yet. But I need to get my own phone working so I can be back in business.
Whatever recommendations are welcome
Can't wait to go to Samsung lol this or something similar happens every time I try to switch or upgrade rom.
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This started when my phone was acting out on Viper 4.0 rom and I figured I'd wipe it and start fresh, wiped the phone & ROM no longer booted, went to the forum to see if there is anything new to tryout & found dirty unicorn so I thought hey that's different (for me) let's give it a shot. Long story short the phone never came back until I relocked & used a factory RUU and it worked but phone was now locked & back to stock. Phone is S-Off by the way.
Today was a new day and I was determined to either get a new rom on my phone or go back to Viper 4.0, unlocked hboot & rooted the phone, installed the newest TWRP 2.8.01 and decided ok everything looks good let's see what happens, Dirty Unicorn requires that you copy ROM to internal storage then flash and this is where the first problem occurred; I couldn't mount internal storage so I thought meh I'll just boot the factory rom & connect as USB storage so I did that, back into recovery and somehow internal storage is not in either file manager or could I get to it from the install screen. I gave up & decided to go ahead & flash from Micro-SD which didn't work, tried to wipe & fail, tried to fix permissions and fail, every time I reboot it asked to reinstall supersu so I tried to flash the most recent zip I had and sure enough fail finally one of my zips worked and I hit reboot, that was the end of my phone.....
Right now - phone is completely blank, power does nothing, power+vol down does nothing, power+vol down+vol up does nothing. When I plug the phone into PC it shows up as QHSUSB_DLOAD RUU doesn't work and fastboot commands return nothing.
ummm what do I do?
oh & the second phone was a friend's phone that he gave up on gave to me to fix for him, of course that's bricked too but I have a feeling it'll come back maybe after the battery dies, haven't tried yet. But I need to get my own phone working so I can be back in business.
Whatever recommendations are welcome
Can't wait to go to Samsung lol this or something similar happens every time I try to switch or upgrade rom.
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All of the things you mentioned are user error and have nothing to do with HTC or the phone itself. Now as far as an answer goes to try to get your phone working again, have you tried holding power for 60 seconds? MOD Edit: Unnecessary.
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All of the things you mentioned are user error and have nothing to do with HTC or the phone itself. Now as far as an answer goes to try to get your phone working again, have you tried holding power for 60 seconds? MOD Edit: Unnecessary.
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Yes of course I tried, the phone has been absolutely unresponsive. No amount of button holding is going to fix QHSUSB_DLOAD
Correct me if I'm wrong but http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1948485 is the only known solution for QHSUSB_DLOAD due to firmware issue (I'm pretty sure this is what happened) or Jtag.
Here's the kicker, the files in that thread are no longer there so as it stands phone's just a Brick.
So for now I'm giving up on it and going samsung.
When I have the energy I may try working on the second one I have which turns out wasn't bricked instead the power button is unusable 90% of the time, but for now that's going to be left out of commission. Ultimately I need a backup because sprint techs seem to only operate on a 3 day basis when it comes to physical repairs therefore I plan to revive the second phone just to keep it as plan-b.
May all be user error but frankly what takes me minutes with a samsung seems to take days on the past couple of HTC phones I've had, so the ranting aspect of my post is merely in these regards and that only and out of frustration, this sucks because I'd take HTC build quality over samsung any day. I've been an HTC faithful since their first windows phone (5 years ago or so).
I know I have to fix the power button on the second phone but have any idea why it fails halfway through a factory RUU?
that's where I left off with it, it's S-On Unlocked running TWRP 2.8.0.1 I was trying to return it to full stock so I can have a go with facepalm S-Off procedure.
Did you relock the bootloader prior to attempting to run the RUU?
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Did you relock the bootloader prior to attempting to run the RUU?
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out of 3 different RUUs I donwloaded only one worked, bootloader was relocked, ran RUU, Error 132 "Signature Error"
the one that did work the installer said finished, phone reboots but goes right back to bootloader where it says "Relocked" & "Security Warning" won't do anything else.
Hello all!
First of all, I am no developer.
Long story short.. I purchased an HTC 10 because I was sick and tired of my at&t galaxy s5 being bootlocked. I received the 10 and set out the next day to root it. I followed a video on youtube (not saying that the info was not correct...I may have done something wrong...not trying to discredit anybody) to the letter and lo and behold I ended up in a bootloop. My heart probably came close to a complete blockage at this point. This bootloop lasted maybe a minute before it would reboot. So... In my infinite wisdom I chose to relock the bootloader. Oh Boy!!! Fun times were ahead for me!! As soon as I relocked said bootloader, the bootloop increased its timing to about 1 point 5 seconds. I remember waking up on the floor in the fetal position. Now I am stuck with a phone that adb will not recognize. It does however recognize the device at the fastboot devices prompt. So my question is this.... Is this a salvageable phone? If so, How would one go about fixing this problem?
*** Relocked ***
htc_pmew1 pvt S-ON
os-2.28.617.8
I would prefer that the money I spent on this thing would amount to something more than a small ant bed.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Also I have been doing a lot of digging around and (I may be wrong) but. I could not find this scenario in the forums here. I apologize if this has already been covered.
...So..after looking around for a bit more, I discovered out that there is a way to flash a ruu/zip from an sd card. I have tried multiple times with what I thought were the right ones. As I am unable to boot into recovery, I feel I am limited as to what I should do. I have read about that I should wipe dalvik but I am very limited in my knowledge on an android system and would prefer to not mess this phone up anymore than it already is. I was trying to root and I used TWRP as the recovery but I never made it to the end before it started the loop. The Phone is an htc 10 unlocked version. and it just constantly reboots about 3 seconds apart. ADB says no device connected, so I cannot execute commands that way... really at a loss here. all the tutorials I have read refer to using and and being able to boot into rrecovery. when i boot into recovery, I get an immediate reboot and the 3 second bootloop forever. Is there a way to use twrp to somehow resolve this?Is there a tool that will help me at least get into recovery mode?
SOLVED... Ran across Batchtool by sneakyghost. Quite the bunch of tools there! Ended up solving my problem by placing the stock RUU in the root folder as the batch tool. Before I could not install from a factory RUU (would not recognize the phone through ADB or install the RUU. After the install of the batch tool I was able to get a clean install back to my factory settings.. Now I am free to mess it up again!!
BIG THANKS TO SNEAKYGHOST!!!!!
I'm unsure why the batch tool has worked for you and the sdcard method didn't - getting fastboot to work and all the bits and pieces together (drivers, Windows VCRedist, correct fastboot, correct adb) is usually more error prone than just identifying the correct zip and placing that in your sdcard root.
At this time, I'm a bit in a "scratch my head" mood, thinking this is weird. Same zip? Really the same zip didn't work from sdcard but would work in fastboot? I think I haven't come across that myself yet (non booting phones are a daily thing, almost).
I wish I had the time to analyze your steps with you, so I could gain understanding as to why that happened, so I can use that in the future, but alas! I have no time for XDA and deep digging around in issues of other people. Lately I can't even solve my own phone's problems anymore due to too many other things going on.
Well, glad it worked for your phone, anyhow. I'll keep this in mind for the next one messing up his/her phone.
So I admit I am an idiot and did this to myself. I installed the latest FireOS OTA through TWRP then thought to keep TWRP I would install it before I rebooted. I know I probably should have read threads about keeping root and the horribleness of 5.6.0.1 but I did not. So I can boot into the OS and I can boot to bootloader but I have no recovery at all. Any one know how to recover from this? Found out the unbrick method I have used before does not work. Fastboot give me an error about locked hw.
Been working on this anyone know or have a fastboot zip or image. I am getting a errors trying to flash the amazon bin with fastboot.
I know I am the only one posting here. I read through a bunch of threads that seem to be people in the same issue. I have now managed to get it stuck in demo mode. I also cannot seem to accomplish much from fastboot because I get a locked hw error. Bought a couple for parts HD6s off ebay. So hopefully I can make something work and get at least one working tablet. This has really put a damper on trying to create a device tree to try and build cm12.
Closer to being a brick. Some how I managed to have root in adb and managed to wipe all. Which I guess really meant all. Now all I get is the amazon logo. No desktop. No adb. No way to get to fastboot.
So ebay tablets came in, bout a lot that had 2. The one was listed as a demo model, so a simple ;demo in the search and resell the device and viola fully working tablet. It still had 4.1.1 on it so a simple update to 4.5.3, Kingroot, and TWRP install and back on CM11. The second was "black screen" so I assumed bricked as it did not seem to turn on when plugged in, initially. Tried running through unbrick but nothing from ./reader.sh so assumed on newer FireOS that blocked that function. After setting the first up I was rearranging my stack on now 2, what I thought where, badly bricked devices. Hit the power button and booted to lock screen with 7% battery. So I now have an extra HD6 to mess with. Best part is I got both of them for $20 total.