[q] htc one m7 soft_bricked-can't flash new recovery - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey! So I rooted and installed cyanogenmod on my HTC One M7, and It was working fine for a while. Then recently it wouldnt turn on. I can access the bootloader, but my recovery - ClockWorkMod - was not working. I cannot enter recovery or factory reset my device. Also when I try to flash a new recovery via fastboot, it says that it failed to write, and my devices freezes on the fastboot screen. In fact any command I try via fastboot fails. I Hope to be able to restore my phone back to stock sense. Any help?

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[Q] unable to run any recovery

hi guys iive unlocked my evo with the htcdev mod and no problem has come out , bun i'm unable to run any recovery.
iìve tryed all cwm twrp and any i found on the site.
i try with fastboot method and abd, all say that the recovery vas written , no error but when i try to lunch recovery the phone show the htc logo stay 10/15 second then reboot the phone.
pls help me
Have you tried downloading the twrp pg86img.zip & make sure it's named PG86IMG.zip then put it on the root of you're sdcard, boot into bootloader and update that way?
CM powered EVO 3D, enough said.
luca73n said:
hi guys iive unlocked my evo with the htcdev mod and no problem has come out , bun i'm unable to run any recovery.
iìve tryed all cwm twrp and any i found on the site.
i try with fastboot method and abd, all say that the recovery vas written , no error but when i try to lunch recovery the phone show the htc logo stay 10/15 second then reboot the phone.
pls help me
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when the device either hangs on the htc logo or reboots while on the htc logo, it means there is an issue with the actual kernel/ramdisk.
when dealing with a custom recovery, they should always boot without any issues. the best suggestion off the top of my head is to make sure if you're on the CDMA version, use the shooter recovery and if you're on the GSM version, use the shooteru version of the custom recovery.
otherwise, as suggested above, reflash the confirmed correct custom recovery for your device. there are a few ways to flash the custom recovery although, being you used the htc unlock method, regular custom recovery mode will not have write access to the boot/kernel partition.
if you're interested in loading any ROMs which come with kernels or separately flashing a custom kernel, there are essentially two complete methods:
1) use my Flash Image GUI app from normal android mode to flash the kernel. then flash the ROM from custom recovery.
2) use fastboot boot c:\android\cwm-recovery.img . this will temporarily boot the custom recovery and htc unlock will grant it write access to the kernel/boot partition. this command is different than fastboot flash recovery c:\android\cwm-recovery.img. the fastboot boot will temporarily boot into the custom recovery while fastboot flash will permanently write it into the recovery partition.
hope all the extra details make sense and helps!
Ummm.....Just my 2 cents, but it sounds as though the most basic possible problem has been overlooked here. You need to go into menu>settings>power and uncheck the "fast boot" box or do a battery pull, then try to boot into your bootloader to access recovery. With your phone completely powered down (fast boot unchecked or after battery pull), hold volume down and press power. That will put you in your bootloader with an option to boot recovery from there.
ok i'm a noob i've used thr shooter and not the shooteru cwm img, now all works
ty guys

[Q] Updating Recovery HBOOT 1.5?

Hello everyone, i rooted my Evo 3d about 4-5 months ago via HTC unlock method and when i go into fastboot screen (holding down Vol - and Power when phone is off) it says S-ON and all that. (just so you guys have an idea where im coming from)
now the thing is every time i want to flash a ROM or kernel or even go into recovery i have to flash the recovery image via fastboot so i can THEN go into CWM.
The other day one of my friends showed me his EVO 3d and he had an updated CWM recovery that was touch screen based (with bigger options) and he could access it from the phone per-say without having to flash the image via fastboot like i have to everytime i want to update my ROM.
Where can i go about finding out how to update my CWM recovery or should i first UNROOT my phone then re-root it to install this new recovery? My primary concern is just being able to access the Recovery without the need of fastboot.
Im afraid to mess things up since i lost my warranty when i unlocked via HTC method.
I am sorry to say that. You can not downgrade your hboot version and forget s-off (for now) does not matter which c.recovery you use. If you dont want to boot in recovery with your pc , you can use GUI app. Sorry. MY friend
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Razpr said:
Hello everyone, i rooted my Evo 3d about 4-5 months ago via HTC unlock method and when i go into fastboot screen (holding down Vol - and Power when phone is off) it says S-ON and all that. (just so you guys have an idea where im coming from)
now the thing is every time i want to flash a ROM or kernel or even go into recovery i have to flash the recovery image via fastboot so i can THEN go into CWM.
The other day one of my friends showed me his EVO 3d and he had an updated CWM recovery that was touch screen based (with bigger options) and he could access it from the phone per-say without having to flash the image via fastboot like i have to everytime i want to update my ROM.
Where can i go about finding out how to update my CWM recovery or should i first UNROOT my phone then re-root it to install this new recovery? My primary concern is just being able to access the Recovery without the need of fastboot.
Im afraid to mess things up since i lost my warranty when i unlocked via HTC method.
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The cwm recovery can be booted without using fastboot too.
I think you always use "fastboot boot cwm.img" command to boot the recovery right?
But if you use "fastboot flash recovery cwm.img" you can always boot it without the use of fastboot.
And if you want to use the recovery like your friends 3d then download and flash this -> http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Or you can also flash TWRP 2.0 touch screen recovery from here -> http://teamw.in/project/twrp2
I prefer twrp 2.0 than clockworkmod as cwm is littlebit buggy.
NOTE: Even though you can boot recovery from your phone itself without using fastboot, you must boot recovery from fastboot for flashing kernels or ROMS with kernels different than your current one.

Help required with Hero flashing error

hi.
i have never had problems with my hero before but suddenly i'm unable to flash anything on it. i have always been on the stock recovery with S-OFF and rooted.
i flashed VanillaEclair 6.2 a while back and had no problems.
yesterday when i tried to flash another rom, i got signature verification error. I thought i'd flash TWRP or CWMR to bypass the signature verification but when i tried to flash it, i got the same error.
i tried to flash the recovery through rom manager but it failed...even with adb!
frustrated, i thought to use the official rom RUU...i ran the RUU, it went halfway in flashing the rom and then gave error.
now i don't have any recovery and pressing 'home+power' leaves me at the HERO screen forever.
luckily i can still boot in android so my device is not bricked.
I have tried pushing the recovery via adb but even the fastboot doesn't work.
i tried starting from scratch to check for the bootloader lock. fastboot oem get_identifier_token returns an error.
phone is working fine but i don't like the rom and want to be able to flash via custom recovery.
please help!
much appreciated.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Hero_(GSM):_Full_Update_Guide Check the installing a custom recovery page, use the FLASH_IMAGE method

Flash recovery not working!

Device: Motorola Droid RAZR HD; unlocked bootloader; android 4.4
Backstory: I tried to load Cyanogenmod on my phone; but first I had to load TWRP recovery in order to get to load it. This is where the issue came; I decided to go the easy route and attempted to install it through Flashify (an app on the Google Play store); upon restarting my phone; it was bricked. I went into EVERYTHING, when I tried to go into recovery it would just send me through the bootloop and then send me to AP Fastboot.
Confused, I called Motorola; and was notified and Flashify had removed my prevoius recovery and failed to but TWRP resulting in this.
Issue: So what I did is I got the CWM recovery specific for my phone (XT926) and went into ADB fastboot and typed "fastboot flash cwm.img", from my ADB folder of course. Then when I booted into recovery, nothing happened; it would just send me through the bootloop again. Please help.

HTC one eye - Stuck at HTC logo screen

Hi All,
I have unlocked my HTC M8 eye with the help of HTCDev site and installed TWRP from playstore. I restarted the phone and went into Fastboot mode and using adb installed TWRP image file for this phone (v2.8.0.3), before it I have saved SuperSU zip file on my local storage. From TWRP in recovery mode I installed SuperSU everything goes good and its shows Success. When I reboot I shows "Your device does not seems to be rooted? Install SuperSu now?" When I gave install now it shows error msg "Failed to copy su binary in to /system/bin/". I tried re-flashing it and tried to install some other versions of SuperSU but none worked. After this phone goes re-booting and stuck in HTC logo screen till I use shortcut keys to enter recovery mode. In Fastboot mode my laptop was able to detect my phone from command prompt and also my internal storage.
I believe I can get back my phone on working. Please help me, I really need my phone back .
If you can still get into recovery, then you can install a custom rom and go that route. Keep in mind, if you are just HTCdev unlocked and you flash a custom rom, you will have to use fastboot to flash the boot.img.
If that doesn't work, then you should be able to find the RUU for your phone and restore it to stock and redo the custom recovery and root. For future reference, just flash the SuperSU zip. TWRP doesn't normally detect that correctly and trying it's method often makes things worse, as you experienced.

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