[SOLVED] Can't Boot into Recovery - AT&T HTC One (M7)

Hello all,
I have followed several tutorials here on XDA, and even more video tutorials on YouTube, but I am stuck at the seemingly simple task of rebooting into recovery. I've rooted every Android device I have ever had, but this one is throwing me off...
I flash TWRP (from adb), erase cache, and then when I'm still in the bootloader, I go to bootloader>recovery and then for a split second I see the HTC logo with the pink "booting into recovery" text then it reverts back to the clean HTC logo and proceeds to reboot into the OS.
I've tried the whole process again and again, and still nothing. It doesn't say "TAMPERED" above UNLOCK (in the bootloader) either.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and thank you in advance
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EDIT:
I managed to get it working. I let the phone sit (powered 100% OFF) while I brewed a pot of coffee (1-2 minutes), when I tried it one last time; it listed "TAMPERED" then "UNLOCKED" and allowed me to flash into recovery with no issues. I think the key is to let the phone sit for a bit while it is powered off. [MODs - Feel free to remove this thread if needed]

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Please HELP! cannot get into recovey!

Okay about a month ago I root my gf evo 3d , she has hboot 1.5 so I followed the steps on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821.
Everything has been working fine up until about a week ago , her phone started running hot and the battery would drain really quick with barely any usage. So my plan was to do a factory restart and full wipe and reinstall the rom fresh but when I tried to get into recovery the phone just shuts off , then goes to the boot screen then after the boot screen the phone just restarts itself. I even tried to do a factory reset from the phones menu options and the same things happens. The ways I tried getting into recovery are by using the shutdown menu options (hold power , reboot , recovery) , I've also tried rom manager and last I tried getting to recovery from bootloader and nothing seems to work.
I am completely lost PLEASE! HELP!
unomillionaire said:
Okay about a month ago I root my gf evo 3d , she has hboot 1.5 so I followed the steps on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821.
Everything has been working fine up until about a week ago , her phone started running hot and the battery would drain really quick with barely any usage. So my plan was to do a factory restart and full wipe and reinstall the rom fresh but when I tried to get into recovery the phone just shuts off , then goes to the boot screen then after the boot screen the phone just restarts itself. I even tried to do a factory reset from the phones menu options and the same things happens. The ways I tried getting into recovery are by using the shutdown menu options (hold power , reboot , recovery) , I've also tried rom manager and last I tried getting to recovery from bootloader and nothing seems to work.
I am completely lost PLEASE! HELP!
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You should reflash your recovery to TWRP using fastboot. Then boot into recovery using fastboot. From there you should be able to do a complete wipe and flash a ROM. It is outlined in the thread you linked OP and second post. Feel free to come into the d3rp q+a thread in my sig if you need more help.
It worked thanks you
unomillionaire said:
Okay about a month ago I root my gf evo 3d , she has hboot 1.5 so I followed the steps on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821.
Everything has been working fine up until about a week ago , her phone started running hot and the battery would drain really quick with barely any usage. So my plan was to do a factory restart and full wipe and reinstall the rom fresh but when I tried to get into recovery the phone just shuts off , then goes to the boot screen then after the boot screen the phone just restarts itself. I even tried to do a factory reset from the phones menu options and the same things happens. The ways I tried getting into recovery are by using the shutdown menu options (hold power , reboot , recovery) , I've also tried rom manager and last I tried getting to recovery from bootloader and nothing seems to work.
I am completely lost PLEASE! HELP!
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unomillionaire said:
It worked thanks you
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As a heads up to some of the inner workings.
All the methods you listed are correct methods of booting into the recovery. ROM Manager selecting boot recovery, booting into the bootloader and selecting recovery and also adb shell, reboot recovery.
The boot order goes: bootloader -> kernel -> recovery. Once you see the HTC screen or whatever custom splash screen is loaded, you know the device is now booting the kernel. At this point, if the device hangs on the splash screen or reboots again to the splash screen, something is wrong with the kernel "recovery" itself.
If you get this rebooting to splash screen or hanging on splash screen two or three times in a row, that should be sufficient to know, you have correctly booted the device into recovery mode and the next step is to reflash the recovery, essentially reloading it.
We can speculate on how/why the recovery became corrupt on your device, but in the end, these things sometimes just happen to no intentional fault of the user.
Hopefully this doesn't happen again, but if it does, hopefully this extra information will help prevent a bit of frustration the next time around!
joeykrim said:
As a heads up to some of the inner workings.
All the methods you listed are correct methods of booting into the recovery. ROM Manager selecting boot recovery, booting into the bootloader and selecting recovery and also adb shell, reboot recovery.
The boot order goes: bootloader -> kernel -> recovery. Once you see the HTC screen or whatever custom splash screen is loaded, you know the device is now booting the kernel. At this point, if the device hangs on the splash screen or reboots again to the splash screen, something is wrong with the kernel "recovery" itself.
If you get this rebooting to splash screen or hanging on splash screen two or three times in a row, that should be sufficient to know, you have correctly booted the device into recovery mode and the next step is to reflash the recovery, essentially reloading it.
We can speculate on how/why the recovery became corrupt on your device, but in the end, these things sometimes just happen to no intentional fault of the user.
Hopefully this doesn't happen again, but if it does, hopefully this extra information will help prevent a bit of frustration the next time around!
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So you mean, stuck at the splash screen(HTC with white screen) and reboot again and again is because of the recovery destroyed? My phone stuck at the splash screen for about 10 seconds and then reboot again and again. I have tried to flash many recovery images, includeing twrp 1.0.3, twrp 1.1.1, cwm-1.0.4, cwm-1.0.5, cwm-5.0.2, all failed to boot up into recovery:-(
Thanks in advance!

[Q] Cant get TWRP to start.

Phone got hung up during a super wipe and i held the power button down and turned it off. It felt stupid while I was doing it, but I waited a good 30 minutes and really felt like I didnt have a choice. I can get into my bootloader but not recovery. Keeps rebooting to splash screen. Tried to fastboot flash the recovery image but i get failed remote: not allowed. not sure what else to do. If anyone has any ideas, I would be greatful.
s-off
hboot-2.09.0000
openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-jewel-selinux.img
Nevermind. I dont know what happened. I left it on the splash screen for a while and the boot animation for the rom started. It never did boot, so i went back into bootloader, tried to fastboot flash the recoverery image again - failed. Tried recovery again and it started. Restored my backup - and my phone is back from the dead once again.

[Q] Can't get recovery to load, shell won't work and HTC One freezes at Boot...

I have followed a few of the tutorials with some success but did a mis-step somewhere along the way pursuing S-OFF. While not a total noob with modding (Consoles mainly) this is the first time I am truly lost in the process.
Excuse me if I use a wrong term here and there, I probably need to have a sleep as I have been working on this (from start of initial Mod) for about 17 hours straight (Overnight).
So I have a HTC One M7 UL that I have unlocked and has TAMPERED showing on the Boot screen. :good:
When I power it up it freezes at the white HTC powered by ANDROID screen.
I can get to the Boot menu, and I can select Recovery but it shows the screen for loading the which ever tool I have managed to flash (so yes I have the ability to flash and can swap between Clockwork and TWRP versions with flashing)
I can't list devices or start a shell session, as it thinks that USB debugging isn't turned on. Up until I caused the FUBAR USB connection was working fine.
Holding Power Button doesn't shutdown, just reboots, but can achieve shutdown through boot menu.
How do I get a working phone again?
Ok I soleved it myself. Found a boot.img flashed it over and the custom recoveries work again. Now onto getting S-OFF so I can get Google Play Edition.

[Q] softbricked htc desire 601 zara

2 days ago my phone went from running perfectly to turning off and getting stuck in a boot loop, I'm assuming it had something to do with supersu updating because i noticed a popup about the binaries needing updating before the crash. I couldn't load recovery (would show team win logo then reboot) but i could load safe mode, i tried downgrading to lower versions of su ( i tried 2.13, 1.8 and 2.01) but that didn't work my phone would boot normally, i could access it for about a minute then it would reboot and do it all over again. i had originally followed this guide (URL at the bottom as i can't post links) so last night i attempted to just re do it all following the same guide. I got the recovery mode to boot and wiped the cache but i still had the same issue where i could access my phone for a minute before crashing. Now when i try to enter recovery it shows the htc logo and immediately reopens boot loader on the fast boot option. I rurally don't want to go out and buy a new phone so any help is appreciated. My current PC access is fairly limited but i can use one if i have to.
Also when i launched safe mode i noticed id get an error report after a few minutes, not sure if thats relevant but it never showed up when i booted normally.
android forums(.)com/desire-601-all-things-root/817068-root-unlock-bootlader-install-recovery-guide-htc-desire-601-zara.html
(remove the brackets)
*edit* i have tried searching for similar threads but i think i will have a better result if the replies are directed towards me directly
Thats weird. Ive never seen this issue before
Try this steps : http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...1-zaraul-s-t2893035/post56365857#post56365857
It works for me.

My Galaxy Nexus in a boot-loop (I need help!) (MOVED)

Sorry if the thread is not in the right place and not fancy written, I don't use forums a lot..
So I've had that phone for about 3 years now. I've never rooted the device, never installed any custom roms, nothing. Only did a factory reset/wiped data couple of times.
One day I woke up (on 2nd of January), looked at my phone (it was charging whole night) and it was showing the "Google" logo. After that it switched to "colorful X", then it turns off, vibrates and all over again.
I was doing it until I took out the battery for a half an hour. Plugged it back in, turned on... Same thing was happening.
I've removed the battery again and plugged it back in. Pressed the power + vol up + vol down buttons in order to get into the bootloader. Got to the "recovery" and wiped the data/factory reset, and wiped the cache.
Restarted, didn't work.
Got mad here and decided to first time to attempt installing a rom. I've got to the google developer website where there are factory images. There were a couple of versions of the Galaxy Nexus. I didn't know which one to pick, so I've picked the first one (GSM with google wallet latest version). (I've already had Android SDK) so I've followed the instructions by using the "fastboot oem unlock"
then "flash-all". It failed. And the reason is when it rebooted, the bootloader locked again and the script couldn't continue installing/flashing.
So every time I unlock the bootloader and reboot, it locks it again.
I've decided to flash every img individually. By using this pattern:
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash bootloader bootloaderblabla.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash...... and every single image including the radio, boot system, etc....
basically every time I flash and reboot, I unlock the bootloader.
That however didn't fix the problem, it was still remaining in the bootloop.
So I am not sure which version of the galaxy nexus I have, I've tried doing that will few versions of the factory images with no success.
So I came here, in a chance to get it fixed by some magic!
Please help?

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