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So I've had my HTC One S for a while now, and just decided to unlock/root/flash custom ROM tonight. Well, I think I got to tired, and I made a few mistakes.
Everything went well initially. I was able to unlock the bootloader, flash new recovery (clockwork), root the phone and install the stable Cyanagen HTS One S built. Cyanagen never booted past the intro animation screen though. I cleared cashe, dalvik cache, and did a factory reset, and then reflashed the rom. Again, nothing.... just got stuck.
I was pretty tired at this point. Long story short, I accidentally formatted the originally rom/google pack file from the "sd card." Now I can't reflash a rom or anything. It's just going around in circles.
I tried doing a "./fastboot update <filename.zip>" but it just gave me an error about not having any android.txt or something like that. Through some of the research I did, it seems you can't actually update a ROM through fastboot? Is that true? If not, what did I do wrong? I'm on a mac btw...
I was then thinking about "adb" but I don't really know much of anything about it. I booted my phone into recovery mode, then went to install zip from side load, and then type "./adb sideload <filename.zip>" in my terminal window. It started to do something, but in the end, it said device not found.
I'm super tired, I've been up all night trying to "unbrick" my phone. I now am coming to the masses in hopes that I'm just too "newby" at this and I'm missing something stupid. Is there a way to flash a new rom on my phone—and for me to hope that that does the trick and lets me boot up that bad boy.
Oh yea. I forgot the biggest mistake yet! I forgot to do a backup of my device before the new ROM was flashed originally! A lot of stupid mistakes. That's why you don't do these kinds of projects for the first time late at night/early in the morn I guess.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone in advance.
Dd you flash the boot image from the zip file using fastboot.
If not:
Extract the rom zip on your computer which also has fastboot installed on it. Then copy the boot image to the folder where your fastboot is. Then enter into the folder which contains fastboot and the boot image and type fastboot devices after plugging in your device in fastboot mode thorough the bootloader. It should display your phone serial in the command window. Then type fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot with cm installed and it should work.
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up user got right. flash boot.img from rm then reboot and fash rom in cwm.
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Boom. That seemed to work. Up and running CM. Thanks!
WildfireDEV said:
Dd you flash the boot image from the zip file using fastboot.
If not:
Extract the rom zip on your computer which also has fastboot installed on it. Then copy the boot image to the folder where your fastboot is. Then enter into the folder which contains fastboot and the boot image and type fastboot devices after plugging in your device in fastboot mode thorough the bootloader. It should display your phone serial in the command window. Then type fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot with cm installed and it should work.
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more problems
Okay. Maybe I need to start a new thread. I'm having some issues. The phone is up and running in CM. I can make/receive calls.
The problem now? CM is not recognizing my built in internal storage on my HTC One S. There is no actual sd card slot on the HTC One S—There are multiple slots for internal storage, and it doesn't seem to be recognizing that space at all. So, I can't use my camera for example.... and my available space for new apps is very limited (should be 32gb if I remember correctly...)
Also, when it did boot, it didn't go into the normal "set up your google account" that android normally goes into. I did add account in settings, but it doesn't seem to be syncing all my contacts/etc/etc.
Any other thoughts on what else I need to do to get my device working as it actually should? Thanks for all the help again.
WildfireDEV said:
Dd you flash the boot image from the zip file using fastboot.
If not:
Extract the rom zip on your computer which also has fastboot installed on it. Then copy the boot image to the folder where your fastboot is. Then enter into the folder which contains fastboot and the boot image and type fastboot devices after plugging in your device in fastboot mode thorough the bootloader. It should display your phone serial in the command window. Then type fastboot flash boot boot.img then reboot with cm installed and it should work.
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... I should mention
Based on my initial message—I did "format SD" at one point when I was attempting to get CM to boot properly initially. Hopefully that didn't jack things up further... When I boot into recover, I'm unable to create a backup or anything like that—it just gives an error when attempting to mount the "sd card."
Any thoughts? Oye. Last time I do late night work on my only phone.
tylermoney said:
Okay. Maybe I need to start a new thread. I'm having some issues. The phone is up and running in CM. I can make/receive calls.
The problem now? CM is not recognizing my built in internal storage on my HTC One S. There is no actual sd card slot on the HTC One S—There are multiple slots for internal storage, and it doesn't seem to be recognizing that space at all. So, I can't use my camera for example.... and my available space for new apps is very limited (should be 32gb if I remember correctly...)
Also, when it did boot, it didn't go into the normal "set up your google account" that android normally goes into. I did add account in settings, but it doesn't seem to be syncing all my contacts/etc/etc.
Any other thoughts on what else I need to do to get my device working as it actually should? Thanks for all the help again.
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further discovery
Okay, so I did another factory reset just in case—it looks like the factory reset wasn't able to do exactly what it needed either. I saw an error in the formatting of the SD in that process as well. A message like "android-secure" or something like that.
"Error mounting /sdcard/ .android_secure!
"Skipping format..."
tylermoney said:
Based on my initial message—I did "format SD" at one point when I was attempting to get CM to boot properly initially. Hopefully that didn't jack things up further... When I boot into recover, I'm unable to create a backup or anything like that—it just gives an error when attempting to mount the "sd card."
Any thoughts? Oye. Last time I do late night work on my only phone.
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Fixed it
Okay. So a couple of things here. Thought you guys may like to be updated on the progress, as it is positive.
1) How I fixed the SD card mounting issue
• I tried re-flashing other recoveries, and tried reformatting the sc card from that (using TWRP vs Clockwork currently)—that DID NOT work
• I was able to get the drive to be recognized by osx (not mountable though—had to attempt to mount through recovery)—I then reformatted to a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format—when I next plugged my phone into the usb port connected to my computer, it stated that the "sd card (there isn't really one...)" was damaged, and asked if I'd like to reformat it—I did, and Valhalla.
2) I realized that I had forgotten to re-flash gapps after the initial re-flash of CM10—which is why my startup wizard never came about and I was unable to sync to my google account... blah blah. So, I flashed google apps, then cyanogen 10, and here we are.
Going to attempt a nightly later on this week probably. Going to keep stable for a few days. Hah.
I guess we can consider this a closed case for now. Thanks.
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Well, I have to ask for help right here because Goole/Yahoo/Wiki DIDN'T help. Although it's a bit long but please read it
Here's my problem:
At the last time that my phone is still being functional, I was playing the game "Contract Killer" and "Facebook", "Internet" were running in the background.
Suddenly, it shut off with showing "power off...(Sth like that). This is obviously a normal situation when the battery is out of power. I took it to charge as usual and went to sleep.
Next day, I waked up and tried to boot up my HTC EVO 3D...
First time: Stuck in the startup screen without playing the HTC opening sound track( The phone used to be in Silent Mode)
Second time: I pulled out the battery and put it back and boot again. Still stuck in the startup screen but this time it play the HTC opening sound track...
I've got a lot data in the internal memory and I've never BACKUP before.....
Is there anyway that can boot up my phone without losing the data???
Oh...my phone has never been rooted.
Anyone know the problem??? (
I dunno, kinda sounds like a Hard Reset/Factory Reset is in order. Did you take the battery out for a while and then try to reboot?
There's no way unless u can take to service provider an have them extract it
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i had that kind of a problem once but i was on a CUSTOM ROM so i'm not sure it will work for you and I'M NOT SAYING this method is THE SAFEST.
so 1st thing i did was.. i panic'd... 2nd, i started googling and when all the signs pointed me to a boot up problem i opened the zipped rom, i extracted the boot.img, connected the phone to the pc in fastboot mode and flashed the boot image. after that it started with no problems, all my data was there. what do anyone else suggest? would it be okay to flash boot.img (stock one) on a stock rom?
I would suggest the following:
If rooted with custom recovery:
1. Pull out the battery
2. Replace the battery, and access recovery and do nandroid backup, you will only need the user data.
3. wipe, wipe, wipe
4. install the ROM you had and let it boot
5. reboot in to recovery and restore you DATA ONLY
If not rooted:
1. Install custom recovery
2. go to rooted instructions
IF this doesn't work you can get the .img files from the forums of the ROM you had or stock if that was what you had and only install the boot.img and system.img and try to see if you get the phone to boot with your data in there.
let me know if anything helps.
PS. There is a great risk that you won't be able to recovery your apps data but lets try and hope for the best.
This sounds like a battery, cable, or AC adapter problem to me. You can get a cheap replacement battery on eBay for a few bucks and see how that works out. Also try different wall pieces, micro USB cables, and power outlets.
If none of that has worked, then you more than likely have a corrupted boot image. You can mount the EMMC (internal flash storage) onto a Linux distribution (like Ubuntu or Fedora) via usb and copy your data to a safe place like a flash drive or HDD. Then do an RUU (there are tutorials on this in the development thread) to restore the phone to stock, then of course pull whatever is needed from the data you saved.
Now if absolutely none of this has worked at all, you have malfunctioning hardware. Your only option at this point is to go to a Sprint store to have your data transferred over to a new replacement phone.
Hope this helped mate.
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megabiteg said:
I would suggest the following:
If rooted with custom recovery:
1. Pull out the battery
2. Replace the battery, and access recovery and do nandroid backup, you will only need the user data.
3. wipe, wipe, wipe
4. install the ROM you had and let it boot
5. reboot in to recovery and restore you DATA ONLY
If not rooted:
1. Install custom recovery
2. go to rooted instructions
IF this doesn't work you can get the .img files from the forums of the ROM you had or stock if that was what you had and only install the boot.img and system.img and try to see if you get the phone to boot with your data in there.
let me know if anything helps.
PS. There is a great risk that you won't be able to recovery your apps data but lets try and hope for the best.
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First of all, thanks for helping~ I would like to know that will my data lose if install the custom recovery? Seems like a huge risk...
Besides, I am a little confused about using the .img to boot my phone.......
MikeyCriggz said:
This sounds like a battery, cable, or AC adapter problem to me. You can get a cheap replacement battery on eBay for a few bucks and see how that works out. Also try different wall pieces, micro USB cables, and power outlets.
If none of that has worked, then you more than likely have a corrupted boot image. You can mount the EMMC (internal flash storage) onto a Linux distribution (like Ubuntu or Fedora) via usb and copy your data to a safe place like a flash drive or HDD. Then do an RUU (there are tutorials on this in the development thread) to restore the phone to stock, then of course pull whatever is needed from the data you saved.
Hope this helped mate.
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I was once using Nokia N900, and it is very easy to flash the rom meanwhile i can keep everything in the emmc remain unchanged! Since ANDROID is based on Linux, I am sure your way will be damn work! Any software or environment would i need to do these stuffs? Thx at all!!
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All in all, I do care the messages in the phone only. That is what i really want.
Nokiawithandroid said:
All in all, I do care the messages in the phone only. That is what i really want.
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Well if you can somehow get ADB access to your phone you can try to backup the following file:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
This is there database that contains all your messages (SMS / MMS).
Flashing the boot.img file is easy, if you have the phone in fastboot (and it indicates the usb connection on the phone too) then you can just flash this way:
fastboot flash boot [location of boot.img]\boot.img
You will not loose any personal data, there that the partition affected by the boot.img is not the same as the one affected by /data. This also apply to the recovery section of the phone, in case you want to load a custom recovery:
fastboot flash recovery [location of recovery.img]\recovery.img
Hope this helps, if you need any more help let us know.
HELLO?
megabiteg said:
Well if you can somehow get ADB access to your phone you can try to backup the following file:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
This is there database that contains all your messages (SMS / MMS).
Flashing the boot.img file is easy, if you have the phone in fastboot (and it indicates the usb connection on the phone too) then you can just flash this way:
fastboot flash boot [location of boot.img]\boot.img
You will not loose any personal data, there that the partition affected by the boot.img is not the same as the one affected by /data. This also apply to the recovery section of the phone, in case you want to load a custom recovery:
fastboot flash recovery [location of recovery.img]\recovery.img
Hope this helps, if you need any more help let us know.
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How can i get to access my phone by ADB?
I am totally new for all these...
Nokiawithandroid said:
How can i get to access my phone by ADB?
I am totally new for all these...
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This can get you acquainted with ADB
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1241935
Props to Droidzone for putting it all together.
If not rooted:
1. Install custom recovery
2. go to rooted instructions
IF this doesn't work you can get the .img files from the forums of the ROM you had or stock if that was what you had and only install the boot.img and system.img and try to see if you get the phone to boot with your data in there.
Can i do the above things while i can't get connect USB with my phone - -?
Nokiawithandroid said:
If not rooted:
1. Install custom recovery
2. go to rooted instructions
IF this doesn't work you can get the .img files from the forums of the ROM you had or stock if that was what you had and only install the boot.img and system.img and try to see if you get the phone to boot with your data in there.
Can i do the above things while i can't get connect USB with my phone - -?
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If you remove the battery off your phone and then you reinsert it back, press PWR+Vol UP to access the bootloader.
While in the Bootloader access fastboot and ensure to have the USB connected. from there, you can run any fastboot command you need, like loading custom recoveries or anything else.
WOW! I am approaching the target. To be clear, fastboot command stands for using ADB access?
AND:"While in the Bootloader access fastboot and ensure to have the USB connected. from there, you can run any fastboot command you need, like loading custom recoveries or anything else." means my phone can connect the computer by using "press PWR+Vol UP to access the bootloader"??? The bloody bootoader??
I am sure i'm almost there!!!!! THANKSSWSSSS
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WOW! I am approaching the target. To be clear, fastboot command stands for using ADB access?
AND:"While in the Bootloader access fastboot and ensure to have the USB connected. from there, you can run any fastboot command you need, like loading custom recoveries or anything else." means my phone can connect the computer by using "press PWR+Vol UP to access the bootloader"??? The bloody bootoader??
I am sure i'm almost there!!!!! THANKSSWSSSS
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Fastboot is a different command center from it counterpart adb. From fastboot you use only commands related to the flashing img files and more.
Just use fastboot /? From the command prompt to see a quick help of all what fastboot can do for you, but the main thing you'll need from this command is the ability yo flash a new boot, and maybe system image to get your phone back up and running.
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megabiteg said:
Fastboot is a different command center from it counterpart adb. From fastboot you use only commands related to the flashing img files and more.
Just use fastboot /? From the command prompt to see a quick help of all what fastboot can do for you, but the main thing you'll need from this command is the ability yo flash a new boot, and maybe system image to get your phone back up and running.
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Oh..damn.....the voyage is lengthy
What equipment/environment do i need?
My target: 1)Back up the Message Database 2) Run this bloody phone.
Difficulties: 1)S-ON 2)command 3) environment 4) Flashing a new (boot?image?)
megabiteg said:
Fastboot is a different command center from it counterpart adb. From fastboot you use only commands related to the flashing img files and more.
Just use fastboot /? From the command prompt to see a quick help of all what fastboot can do for you, but the main thing you'll need from this command is the ability yo flash a new boot, and maybe system image to get your phone back up and running.
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Any thread for that?
I’m extremely new to the Android community and I did do a lot of reading on how to unlock, install a recovery, and install ICS on my HTC Rezound. The problem I’m having is that I found an ICS ROM to install. I downloaded it, renamed it PH98IMG.zip, installed it onto my SD card through Clockworkmod Recovery, I then tried rebooting into the bootloader to get the zip file installed, but this is what happens in bootloader:
SD Checking…
Loading…[PH98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading…[ph98diag.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading…[ph98img.zip]
And there’s a vertical progress bar on the right side of the screen that fills up, but then nothing happens after that. It goes back into the bootloader screen. Now my phone won’t startup at all, I get stuck at the HTC white startup screen. I can get into bootloader and Clockworkmod recovery, but nothing else works.
If anybody can please help me with step by step instructions I would really really really appreciate it. Thanks.
I should also mention that I followed a YouTube video on how to install ICS on my Rezound (I can't post a link of the video b/c XDA website won't let me).
The video had me unlock the bootloader, install CWM recovery, and install something called Ineffabilis-Deus-v1.0.1-Odex.zip. Everything up to this point worked just like the video (which is point 3:30 on the video). After that, nothing else worked.
I've ended up formatting the SD card from CWM recovery so now there's nothing on the SD card. Not even the PH98IMG.zip file. PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
If you still have ADB set up after you unlocked, here's whatchya do.
1. Unzip the P98 file.
2. Move the boot.img into your ADB directory.
3. Plug your phone into your computer.
4. Run CMD as administrator and type in the following commands
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Should work just fine after that. :good:
And I really hope you are at least using the modded CWM recovery from this post and elsewhere, you'll have issues if your phone fully drains otherwise:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27517554
Worry about reflashing recovery on its own after you get the ROM up and running, just be sure you keep the phone charged. And consider AmonRa or TWRP recovery.
Chyrux said:
If you still have ADB set up after you unlocked, here's whatchya do.
1. Unzip the P98 file.
2. Move the boot.img into your ADB directory.
3. Plug your phone into your computer.
4. Run CMD as administrator and type in the following commands
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Should work just fine after that. :good:
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YES! It worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now to figure out how to get Amon Ra installed and uninstall CWM Recovery.
You can download Amon Ra from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23781936&postcount=428
rename img file to recovery.img and flash using fastboot as below
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fasheezy said:
YES! It worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now to figure out how to get Amon Ra installed and uninstall CWM Recovery.
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Dowload this: http://www.mediafire.com/?5yemc20dcnbr91c
Rename to PH98IMG and install via boot loader.
fasheezy said:
I’m extremely new to the Android community and I did do a lot of reading on how to unlock, install a recovery, and install ICS on my HTC Rezound. The problem I’m having is that I found an ICS ROM to install. I downloaded it, renamed it PH98IMG.zip, installed it onto my SD card through Clockworkmod Recovery, I then tried rebooting into the bootloader to get the zip file installed, but this is what happens in bootloader:
SD Checking…
Loading…[PH98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading…[ph98diag.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading…[ph98img.zip]
And there’s a vertical progress bar on the right side of the screen that fills up, but then nothing happens after that. It goes back into the bootloader screen. Now my phone won’t startup at all, I get stuck at the HTC white startup screen. I can get into bootloader and Clockworkmod recovery, but nothing else works.
If anybody can please help me with step by step instructions I would really really really appreciate it. Thanks.
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My Rezound has the exact same screen when going to the bootloader. I tried so very hard to avoid this but it must be done, I have to ask for help. I have no idea how to fix this phone. When trying to boot it gets all the way to the 4GLTE screen and stops, forever.
This phone is rooted with an unlocked bootloader, S-On, using Hasoon2000's AIO. It was working fine up until I did something stupid and loaded Motioncoding's Beats audio installer. (In case you're wondering I did this in an attempt to have the Beat's audio function while using Pandora, unfortunately this stopped the stock music player from functioning with headphones, I'm and idiot, I know...)
The problem occurred once I tried to uninstall the beat's audio installer using Root Browser Lite and deleting the system files they specified in the instructions. Apparently I deleted one to many and upon restart this is where I ended up. I have tried numerous fixes but the problem I keep running into is I cannot get access to Android via a USB connection on my PC. I still have access to the bootloader and to Clockworkmod Recovery but that is it. If someone can explain to me how to fix this it would really make me feel better and I promise I will never try to do something this stupid again. Thanks.
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Did you create a nandroid backup as recommended before trying any new mods? If not, reflash your rom in recovery/boot.img in fastboot, with only a system wipe. If so, restore your nandroid, if you don't boot then reflash a proper boot.img in fastboot.
Yeap snuzzo is spot on. I just wanted to add that it's not a big problem at all, not even something to stress about. We will help you get it fixed up. If you have the vertical loading var, there's a PH98IMG.zip file on the external sd card that you need to delete.
Since it was mentioned in the quote, make sure you aren't running the official clockwork mod recovery. Either run amon ra or fly halfs custom clockwork mod
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fairly new to rooting, so sorry if the fix is simple (hoping it is). i have a evo 4g lte, rooted it, been having issues flashing cm10, so i would reflash a previously saved working rom, no problems. i have been using twrp for recovery. so i switched to cwmr (HUGE MISTAKE)to try and see if that would somehow fix why everytime i was flashing cm10 my phone would never load past the loading screen ( android in middle of revolving circle). basically my problem is, in recovery i cant mount ext-sd or the internal sd, i can "see" my saved backups, but cant flash them, when i try it says" no files found" i played with things for a while, somehow got some old downloaded cm10 version to work, so i atleast have a working phone, but cant mount my sdcard under storage which i need done to flash twrp back into my phone. ive been reading on how to use termianl emulator to mount sd card, but cant figuer that out, any help would be muchly appreciated, sorry for long description of my issue, i just want to be able to flash twrp, reboot into recovery and restore back to a previously working rom!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!
also... cm update is constantly running, cant stop it, my pc doesnt recognize my phone, cant mount in recovery or in settings. tried copy and pasting the saved zip files using a root browser app to relocate them and trying to reboot into recovery and flashing them, that does work... please help!!!!
If you can get into terminal emulator, then just flash twrp using that. The directions are on their website.
toolmod francis,
{ParanoiA} said:
If you can get into terminal emulator, then just flash twrp using that. The directions are on their website.
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too late, i kept playing around with everything in recovery mode, and apprently made things worse, now the phone will recognize my ext sd and not the internal sd, which is what u need to use terminal emulator to reflash twrp, any other suggestions???
You can update recovery image through fastboot or place the twrp update zip (rename PJ75IMG.zip) on external and boot to bootloader. As for internal being corrupt, boot into twrp and mount as USB storage and format through pc
om4 said:
You can update recovery image through fastboot or place the twrp update zip (rename PJ75IMG.zip) on external and boot to bootloader. As for internal being corrupt, boot into twrp and mount as USB storage and format through pc
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can u give me the detailed instructions on how to do that please
om4 said:
You can update recovery image through fastboot or place the twrp update zip (rename PJ75IMG.zip) on external and boot to bootloader. As for internal being corrupt, boot into twrp and mount as USB storage and format through pc
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when trying to upload pj75img.zip in recovery from ext sd it says install aborted, it wont take, how do u update recovery image in fastboot
update... cant flash anything, lol. cant access the vfolk folder or whatever under system/etc... to try and make my ext sd my primary source of memory, cant flash twrp in terminal emulator, cant flash anything while in recovery with clockworkmod, cant flash twrp thru goomanager or any other app, cant mount internal sd while in recovery, ANY SUGGESSTIONS people, ive spent literally all weekend researching and still nothing, if someone could call me and walk me thru **** thatd help alot, hell... im to the point to where id mail my phone to someone to let them fix it, haha, please help!!!!!!!
run the ruu and start over again
i had sd card reading issues couple months ago and the ruu fixed it
Miahjera04 said:
when trying to upload pj75img.zip in recovery from ext sd it says install aborted, it wont take, how do u update recovery image in fastboot
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ADB Tools Mini SDK
Extract this and then open the folder and hold shift+select and right click. In the menu select open command window here. Put your phone in fastboot and connect to pc. Type fastboot devices to make sure its connected. Then type fastboot flash recovery "filename.img" filename being what ever the name of the recovery file is. It should write recovery and then you can boot into twrp
flex360 said:
run the ruu and start over again
i had sd card reading issues couple months ago and the ruu fixed it
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to run ruu, dont u have to be able to connect to pc? when i do, the pc doesnt recognize, since the internal sd isnt mounted, i cant "mount" my phone to the pc....
Boot to fastboot and run ruu
om4 said:
Boot to fastboot and run ruu
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so that's plugged into PC to do that right, shouldn't the phone say fastboot usb or something
Boot to bootloader and select fastboot, when you connect to the pc it should say fastboot usb
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Boot to bootloader and select fastboot, when you connect to the pc it should say fastboot usb
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while in fastboot i cant get it to say fastboot usb sometimes, but when i run ruu, it says it cant detect my phone, so no luck there... it says usb connection error: 170
om4 said:
ADB Tools Mini SDK
Extract this and then open the folder and hold shift+select and right click. In the menu select open command window here. Put your phone in fastboot and connect to pc. Type fastboot devices to make sure its connected. Then type fastboot flash recovery "filename.img" filename being what ever the name of the recovery file is. It should write recovery and then you can boot into twrp
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after unziping the folder and trying to run that program i get system error saying its missing a .dll file
You probably need to reinstall HTC drivers
om4 said:
Boot to fastboot and run ruu
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ok, i atleast got ruu to take, then phoen reboots the bootloader, erases user data, then just stays on sending for about 30-45 secs, then the program stops and says unknown error and to find rom compatible with phone, im using ruu 2.13 which looks to be the newest one... : (
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You probably need to reinstall HTC drivers
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i reinstalled 1000 times. lol.... im currently working on getting adb prompt to work, downloaded the neccesary java stuff, but cant get the prompt to open, been reading about having to relocate java files, and stuff, but havin dificulty... hoping that if i can get into an emulator on the pc i can force flash twrp or something, anyone know how to help with that?
FINALLY FIXED!!!!!! had to relock bootloader for the ruu to take, smh... such an easy thing to over look, but got back to factory rom.. bot to root again, lol... BIG LESSON LEARNED, thanks for all help
Ok... This is my 4th android phone.. And I love this phone... And only had it for a week.... and just now got it bricked.... here's what happen... Today I tried to flash a sense 4.1 rom, but im so new at this, and I'm half way done, and I went in a rush because I was nervous, and I accidentally press "install and keep data" and that was my mistake. I factory reset it b4 so I tried to flash it... So I thought it wouldn't be a problem. So I waited till the phone finish flashing. And when I rebooted the phone.... Nothing happened, just stuck on the white screen.... vibrating and etc... And I tried to restore all my data in clockworkmod recovery like I never even tried flashed it.. and it kept saying "won't mount sd card" and I tried to clear my cache/dalvik-cache, and like it still wont fix the issue. I even tried to restore wat I backup b4 I tried to flash it... and It was gone!!! Even my windows 8 laptop won't even detect my resound nor my sd card(unless its on a different android). But How can I fix my Rezound?!? plzzzz How can I fix this soft bricked issue? pllzzzzzzz help!!!
Im assuming you already have adb installed
Download this file
http://www.mediafire.com/download/oa2sjlvrecx0wdn/recovery-ra-vigor-3.16-gnm.img.zip
Extract the recovery img
Put it in the adb folder
Load into fastboot
Open up the terminal
Put "cd" then hit space
Drag and drop the adb folder into the terminal window then hit enter
Now use this command to flash that recovery "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotation marks)
Now go into recovery Find "format data system cache ect."
Go to format all to ext3 once that is done hit return
Flash your prefered rom from the flash menu and all that
Once you are done return to the main menu and go to "developer menu"
Then reboot to bootloader
Now go into your rom that you downloaded on your pc and find the rom now open it and get the boot.img
Copy the boot.img file to your adb folder
Open up terminal again and this time use the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img" in terminal its going to say sending then writing usually takes a couple of seconds
now just go to the reboot option and your rom should work
Now remember that since you are s on you need to get the boot.img file from EVERY rom you install and flash it thru the terminal in order to get your rom working
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Im assuming you already have adb installed
Download this file
http://www.mediafire.com/download/oa2sjlvrecx0wdn/recovery-ra-vigor-3.16-gnm.img.zip
Extract the recovery img
Put it in the adb folder
Load into fastboot
Open up the terminal
Put "cd" then hit space
Drag and drop the adb folder into the terminal window then hit enter
Now use this command to flash that recovery "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" (without the quotation marks)
Now go into recovery Find "format data system cache ect."
Go to format all to ext3 once that is done hit return
Flash your prefered rom from the flash menu and all that
Once you are done return to the main menu and go to "developer menu"
Then reboot to bootloader
Now go into your rom that you downloaded on your pc and find the rom now open it and get the boot.img
Copy the boot.img file to your adb folder
Open up terminal again and this time use the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img" in terminal its going to say sending then writing usually takes a couple of seconds
now just go to the reboot option and your rom should work
Now remember that since you are s on you need to get the boot.img file from EVERY rom you install and flash it thru the terminal in order to get your rom working
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If you are S-ON, you are likely not bricked, it's almost impossible to completely brick when you are S-ON.
Why do people keep telling occasional flashers that are S-ON to do this?!?!? It is the hard way, also don't use Amon Ra, is it outdated and known to cause issues with current ROMs, use TWRP or CWM recovery!!! Also, verify your ROM is specifically for the HTC Rezound, check the Developer threads here and make sure it is stable and widely used unless you really know what you are doing.
Although xkjonathanxk is on the right track, he is making more complicated than it needs to be...
- Download the first link in the first post of this thread and place it on the root of your SD card: [Tool] - 3/24 - CleanWIPE 1.0 - Wipe 5 or 10x before ROM install! - 1heffer Edition! (CleanWIPE formats all the necessary partitions for you, and prepares the phone for a new ROM)
- Download TWRP or CWM Rececovery (one of the first two links in post 1) and extract the recovery*.img and place it in the adb folder that contains fastboot.
- Download a tested and verified ROM of choice and place it on the root of your SD card
- Now, reboot into fastboot, remove battery and hold down Power and Vol Dn, once the menu comes up select Fastboot and press power, connect phone to PC
- In ADB enter the command "fastboot devices", if it shows a device continue, if not report back please
- Now enter the command "fastboot boot recovery.img" and TWRP (or CWM) should open on the device in a few seconds (replace recovery.img with whatever the name of the xxxx.img file is from TWRP or CWM archive)
- Install the CleanWIPE zip from above
- Install ROM zip image
- Reboot and enjoy the goodness
Remember to give the ROM some time to settle down on the first boot, and that the first boot can take a long time, like a painfully wrong "WTF did I do to ruin my device!" long time, but give it a solid 10 minutes before doing anything else.
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acejavelin said:
If you are S-ON, you are likely not bricked, it's almost impossible to completely brick when you are S-ON.
Why do people keep telling occasional flashers that are S-ON to do this?!?!? It is the hard way, also don't use Amon Ra, is it outdated and known to cause issues with current ROMs, use TWRP or CWM recovery!!! Also, verify your ROM is specifically for the HTC Rezound, check the Developer threads here and make sure it is stable and widely used unless you really know what you are doing.
Although xkjonathanxk is on the right track, he is making more complicated than it needs to be...
- Download the first link in the first post of this thread and place it on the root of your SD card: [Tool] - 3/24 - CleanWIPE 1.0 - Wipe 5 or 10x before ROM install! - 1heffer Edition! (CleanWIPE formats all the necessary partitions for you, and prepares the phone for a new ROM)
- Download TWRP or CWM Rececovery (one of the first two links in post 1) and extract the recovery*.img and place it in the adb folder that contains fastboot.
- Download a tested and verified ROM of choice and place it on the root of your SD card
- Now, reboot into fastboot, remove battery and hold down Power and Vol Dn, once the menu comes up select Fastboot and press power, connect phone to PC
- In ADB enter the command "fastboot devices", if it shows a device continue, if not report back please
- Now enter the command "fastboot boot recovery.img" and TWRP (or CWM) should open on the device in a few seconds (replace recovery.img with whatever the name of the xxxx.img file is from TWRP or CWM archive)
- Install the CleanWIPE zip from above
- Install ROM zip image
- Reboot and enjoy the goodness
Remember to give the ROM some time to settle down on the first boot, and that the first boot can take a long time, like a painfully wrong "WTF did I do to ruin my device!" long time, but give it a solid 10 minutes before doing anything else.
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I really appreciate your help and everything. So i thank you. But Like i said im running windows 8, it wont detect my rezound or my sd card, the only time the pc is able to detect the sd card is when im able to mount my sd card to CWM. But it really wont detect it.... help me again
Multidex24 said:
I really appreciate your help and everything. So i thank you. But Like i said im running windows 8, it wont detect my rezound or my sd card, the only time the pc is able to detect the sd card is when im able to mount my sd card to CWM. But it really wont detect it.... help me again
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Ubuntu Live CD... Windows not required.
Sent from my HTC Aria (Liberty) running CM 7.2 using xda app-developers app
Dont know how to work ubuntu.. help again
acejavelin said:
Ubuntu Live CD... Windows not required.
Sent from my HTC Aria (Liberty) running CM 7.2 using xda app-developers app
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lol its the good thing i know how to make a dual os between win8 and ubuntu, but heres another problem, i dont even know how to work ubuntu...
i think my pc can detect the rezound. But idek how to work ubuntu, plzzzz help!!
Multidex24 said:
lol its the good thing i know how to make a dual os between win8 and ubuntu, but heres another problem, i dont even know how to work ubuntu...
i think my pc can detect the rezound. But idek how to work ubuntu, plzzzz help!!
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For the things you need to do, its not much different than Windows. Download and install adb, copy images to same places, and the commands are pretty much the same. If you can dualboot you obviously have some knowledge of such things.
If this is all do difficult, just grab a thumb drive, put mini-adb, recovery.img, and your ROM on it and go to a buddies computer with Win7 for 20 minutes and get it done that way.
I know this seems like a huge, potentially fatal problem, but it is minor...
Another thought I had... Download TWRP, go into CWM recovery and copy the TWRP file and ROM to the sd card, and FLASH TWRP recovery ZIP with CWM recovery, reboot into recovery and you will then be on TWRP and you can use TWRP's HTC Dumlock to flash the ROM and the boot.img without a PC at all... In theory, it should work.
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Hello,
I just purchased this phone knowing that it has this problem and I am trying to fix it but I do not know much about the original firmware or anything except of the following:
SKU: 6233A, MFG: 2014/05/30, HW: R1.6
I need to restore the Firmware and preferably be able to use the Dock Station (reason I bought it).
I also like to use it with T-Mobile and do not know if these phones are locket to ATT or not.
I am not a developer but have good technical knowledge.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you
Mike
MH928 said:
Hello,
I just purchased this phone knowing that it has this problem and I am trying to fix it but I do not know much about the original firmware or anything except of the following:
SKU: 6233A, MFG: 2014/05/30, HW: R1.6
I need to restore the Firmware and preferably be able to use the Dock Station (reason I bought it).
I also like to use it with T-Mobile and do not know if these phones are locket to ATT or not.
I am not a developer but have good technical knowledge.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you
Mike
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Hopefully you can enter in to fastboot mode.
Try to reflash this ATT_userdebug rom from TWRP recovery, and then restore this backup.
1. Turn on the fastboot mode(vol up + power), plug in the cable to PC, open CMD, Boot in to twrp(fastboot boot recoveryyouchoose.img) and use "adb push filename.zip /sdcard"
2. install .zip then reboot
3. boot up, then boot back to TWRP recovery, make a backup.
4. boot up, copy the downloaded backup, boot back to recovery
5. restore it.
hope it works
paleszgergo said:
Hopefully you can enter in to fastboot mode.
Try to reflash this ATT_userdebug rom from TWRP recovery, and then restore this backup.
1. Turn on the fastboot mode(vol up + power), plug in the cable to PC, open CMD, Boot in to twrp(fastboot boot recoveryyouchoose.img) and use "adb push filename.zip /sdcard"
2. install .zip then reboot
3. boot up, then boot back to TWRP recovery, make a backup.
4. boot up, copy the downloaded backup, boot back to recovery
5. restore it.
hope it works
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The second link (to restore) redirects to another Thread but most of the links there do not work, can you send me a direct link to the file?
MH928 said:
The second link (to restore) redirects to another Thread but most of the links there do not work, can you send me a direct link to the file?
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I think he meant these for the second link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60403709&postcount=34
Edit: you must use twrp to flash these backups after user debug.
Justatechie said:
I think he meant these for the second link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60403709&postcount=34
Edit: you must use twrp to flash these backups after user debug.
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Yeah, thats what i mean!
Please help. the same problem. Invalid boot. TWRP recovery i have already. please help step by step...
(why invalid boot? i flashed new recovery from Quarx to a boot partition )
Sirocco.ukr.lviv said:
Please help. the same problem. Invalid boot. TWRP recovery i have already. please help step by step...
(why invalid boot? i flashed new recovery from Quarx to a boot partition )
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Is your Bootloader unlocked?
Justatechie said:
Is your Bootloader unlocked?
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Locked bootloader. Where i can see for sure?
When VolUp+Power i can see this window
I need adb driver.
TWRP that i have on this phone is old one ported from nexus device and it can't see SD card.
Sirocco.ukr.lviv said:
Locked bootloader. Where i can see for sure?
When VolUp+Power i can see this window
I need adb driver.
TWRP that i have on this phone is old one ported from nexus device and it can't see SD card.
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To find out, you have to put your phone into fastboot.
To do that power down your phone, then hold volume up and power button at the same time. There, the asus logo will pop up like normal and hang on that screen to show that you are in fastboot mode.
Open up command prompt and verify your device is connected, by typing in fastboot devices.
If it shows up good then all you have to do is type in fastboot oem device-info.
If it says device unlocked: true that means your BL is unlocked.
If its not, you have to download crowlock from the cm12 thread and flash it.
It works better with cwm but since you are stuck its worth a shot to flash it under old twrp.
Then check the BL status again, if its good great.
You could restore your device from some backups posted or if you could find a boot.img from the stock image, you could use the new version of twrp to flash the boot image under image flashing.
This is the adb/fastboot driver I use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
Justatechie you are only one who help. i appreciate it. god bless you!
i've done it. unlocked already. i watched bootloop so i wiped everything. what rom to install?
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Nice to hear that.
Well it depends if you want to install one or you want to keep it stock.
For keeping it stock unfortunately you must restore from backups posted.
If its custom well Cm is a good way, just the dock does not work, but it will work hopefully soon when the developer receives it soon.
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Nice to hear that.
Well it depends if you want to install one or you want to keep it stock.
For keeping it stock unfortunately you must restore from backups posted.
If its custom well Cm is a good way, just the dock does not work, but it will work hopefully soon when the developer receives it soon.
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My asus padfone x T00D with full wipes identifies like T00N (padfone s) and reboots on first welcome screen on your rom...
please see video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMB9Ctvrk0Q
Sirocco.ukr.lviv said:
My asus padfone x T00D with full wipes identifies like T00N (padfone s) and reboots on first welcome screen on your rom...
please see video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMB9Ctvrk0Q
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Dont worry about the asus_toon, it will turn back into padfone x when you are finally able to restore to the at&t factory rom
What is very strange,is that you cannot wipe certain things, I guess It may be due to a tampered bootloader. (something must have tripped it up)
My bootloader is unlocked but not tampered.
But the reason why it says ASUS_T00N is because you installed cm or miui and it changed build prop and the partitions. (all of quarx roms are built from the pfs source but work on the pfx too) its not a big deal don't worry.
Have you tried any other recoveries, perhaps the older version of twrp Here
Try booting them through fastboot using the fastboot boot filename.img (of the recovery file that should be located inside a folder containg fastboot/adb files)
See if they can wipe cache data(no media) and system. Remember, booting from fastboot is just temporary
Then try flashing a rom, doesnt matter what it has to be but it should work after its done. Maybe flash without gapps, it could sometimes cause a random problem and besides you can always install it later.
I never had to use fastboot to wipe cache either because well I could do that in recovery, plus its safer