Dear XDA,
I have an att one m8, I was running cyanogenmod and tried to install the viper rom which bricked my phone. I then flashed TWRP and the install didn't work either and now I have a bricked phone. I re-flashed CWM and tried to install my nandriod but it didn't work. Now I am stuck with a phone that is stuck on the HTC screen with the this build is for development purposes only message. I have no idea what to do now and am completely stuck as I am kinda screwed since my nandriod doesn't work. What do I do to get back to stock and it would be nice if I could get back to stock and not see any bloatware waiting for me also!
ng4 said:
Dear XDA,
I have an att one m8, I was running cyanogenmod and tried to install the viper rom which bricked my phone. I then flashed TWRP and the install didn't work either and now I have a bricked phone. I re-flashed CWM and tried to install my nandriod but it didn't work. Now I am stuck with a phone that is stuck on the HTC screen with the this build is for development purposes only message. I have no idea what to do now and am completely stuck as I am kinda screwed since my nandriod doesn't work. What do I do to get back to stock and it would be nice if I could get back to stock and not see any bloatware waiting for me also!
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Run bootable ruu as long as you are AT&T. This should be in questions and answers btw.
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ng4 said:
Dear XDA,
I have an att one m8, I was running cyanogenmod and tried to install the viper rom which bricked my phone. I then flashed TWRP and the install didn't work either and now I have a bricked phone. I re-flashed CWM and tried to install my nandriod but it didn't work. Now I am stuck with a phone that is stuck on the HTC screen with the this build is for development purposes only message. I have no idea what to do now and am completely stuck as I am kinda screwed since my nandriod doesn't work. What do I do to get back to stock and it would be nice if I could get back to stock and not see any bloatware waiting for me also!
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First off, this isn't a brick. You just got yourself into a state where the phone won't boot, and just don't know the steps to recover from this particular state. A brick requires the phone to be taken apart in order to recovery, and it would pretty much mean you are screwed.
1) Why did you flash TWRP again after flashing Viper rendered the phone unbootable? Why not just restore your CWM nandroid (not sure, but it seems your nandroid is from CWM, not TWRP)
2) Did you factory reset in bootloader (not advised, will corrupt internal memory)?
3) S-on or S-off?
Suggestion by an0ther to RUU (relocking bootloader required if s-on) will certainly get you up and running. But it might be as simple as getting a custom or stock rooted ROM on the phone, and flashing with CWM/TWRP
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an0ther said:
This should be in questions and answers btw.
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I've reported to mods to move the thread to the correct section.
redpoint73 said:
First off, this isn't a brick. You just got yourself into a state where the phone won't boot, and just don't know the steps to recover from this particular state. A brick requires the phone to be taken apart in order to recovery, and it would pretty much mean you are screwed.
1) Why did you flash TWRP again after flashing Viper rendered the phone unbootable? Why not just restore your CWM nandroid (not sure, but it seems your nandroid is from CWM, not TWRP)
2) Did you factory reset in bootloader (not advised, will corrupt internal memory)?
3) S-on or S-off?
Suggestion by an0ther to RUU (relocking bootloader required if s-on) will certainly get you up and running. But it might be as simple as getting a custom or stock rooted ROM on the phone, and flashing with CWM/TWRP
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I've reported to mods to move the thread to the correct section.
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Beacause my nandriod was corrupted and I thought that it was a CWM bug that bricked my phone so I switched to TWRP. I ended up going back to CWM and flashed a stock rom that worked.
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Hey guys,
I had my old Evo, and had it rooted, not through HTC's bootloader, sadly that phone broke and I had to get a new one. well I had it backed up with Clockwork and I want to restore my old Rom. I did the process of unlocking and rooting the phone here being it was on Hboot 1.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
But now every time I try to restore the Backup in Clockwork I get sent to TWRP and can't seem to recover the back up there. Anyway to do this or to remove TWRP and put back the recovery process that my old Rooted Evo 3d had?
cheato3825 said:
Hey guys,
I had my old Evo, and had it rooted, not through HTC's bootloader, sadly that phone broke and I had to get a new one. well I had it backed up with Clockwork and I want to restore my old Rom. I did the process of unlocking and rooting the phone here being it was on Hboot 1.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
But now every time I try to restore the Backup in Clockwork I get sent to TWRP and can't seem to recover the back up there. Anyway to do this or to remove TWRP and put back the recovery process that my old Rooted Evo 3d had?
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CWM and TWRP use different naming conventions for their backups.
If you created a backup in CWM, would be easiest to restore using CWM.
When restoring a backup from a different devices, I would suggest ONLY restoring, data, system and boot partitions.
Keep in mind some devices can have hardware variations between versions and on occasion these can impact restoring an "older" ROM from a previous device to a newer device.
Hope that helps!
joeykrim said:
CWM and TWRP use different naming conventions for their backups.
If you created a backup in CWM, would be easiest to restore using CWM.
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How do I force it to use CWM. I open it up, try to restore it and it restarts my phone in TWRP.
You might need to use fastboot to make CWM work. I haven't had success using any other method with hboot 1.5. I've had the same experience as others with only CWM 4.0.1.4 and 5.8.0.1 working via fastboot. Instructions I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17660133&postcount=1877
Not trying to hijack this thread but I don't want to make a new thread for this noob question.... How do I know which hw version I have? On evo4g it says it right on the hboot screen, but I can't see it on the 3d. Thanks.
Edit...found it.
cheato3825 said:
Hey guys,
I had my old Evo, and had it rooted, not through HTC's bootloader, sadly that phone broke and I had to get a new one. well I had it backed up with Clockwork and I want to restore my old Rom. I did the process of unlocking and rooting the phone here being it was on Hboot 1.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
But now every time I try to restore the Backup in Clockwork I get sent to TWRP and can't seem to recover the back up there. Anyway to do this or to remove TWRP and put back the recovery process that my old Rooted Evo 3d had?
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Restoring a backup from CMW to a different phone is a bad idea. If you do, DO NOT RESTORE WIMAX PARTITIONS or you will lose 4g. I would just start over as it would be the safest.
tgruendler said:
Restoring a backup from CMW to a different phone is a bad idea. If you do, DO NOT RESTORE WIMAX PARTITIONS or you will lose 4g. I would just start over as it would be the safest.
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Agreed, what you should do when switching phones is to backup with titanium backup, I find it to work better because I backs up the apk and the data for it opposed to CWR or TWRP which actually grab a snapshot of the partitions and recover from it.
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cheato3825 said:
How do I force it to use CWM. I open it up, try to restore it and it restarts my phone in TWRP.
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I think, You have TWRP flashed to your phone, and you havent flashed CWM yet. You are just booting CWM using fastboot. So, when the recovery restarts you get to TWRP.
Instead of using "fastboot boot *.img" use "fastboot flash recovery *.img" then use "fasboot boot *.img". Then try once again and check if it works......
The 300 MB update started to install, but after the reboot, it's hung at the HTC splash screen. After about 40 minutes sitting there, I pulled the battery. I'm able to get back into the bootloader and recovery so I'm not hard bricked. I'm pretty sure my mistake was letting the update install with AmonRa recovery, not stock. The 7 MB update installed fine that way, though. I just clicked reboot after it was done patching.
Any ideas how to recover from this without completely bricking my phone?
It was completely stock GB other than being rooted and AmonRa.
hopefully you have your data backed up.
I would suggest running the FULL ruu linked here if a data wipe in amon ra doesn't work.
Fortunately between Titanium and a couple of nandroid backups, I do have backups of everything but the stock recovery. I'm debating whether to restore /system and try it again when I get home from work.
Anybody have a link to the full .12 RUU?
I'm pretty sure I read you need to be on stock recovery in order to take OTA.
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GoBlue13 said:
I'm pretty sure I read you need to be on stock recovery in order to take OTA.
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Yeah you do that's the problem
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's where I went wrong. Can anybody upload the stock recovery.img? I'm hoping I can restore my nandroid backup from last night, flash the recovery back to stock and try the update again.
I am the same way Antoine.WG needing the stock recovery for download....and need to know how to lock my phone back....
jwp1223 said:
I am the same way Antoine.WG needing the stock recovery for download....and need to know how to lock my phone back....
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Found the recovery image at the bottom of this thread. I restored /system and /boot (not sure if I needed /boot, but it seemed like a good idea) and I'm back to GB again. For some reason I can see the update with the status button but it won't give me the option to install it.
EDIT: Gave it some time and it finally prompted me to install. All updated with some delicious frozen goodness.
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Since a few weeks my phone turnes itself off accidentally, during any operation or just lying lazy on the desk. I had ARHD 6.5 since 6 months or so and I replaced it with 6.7 like 3 days ago, hoping this will solve the problem but it didn't. So I wanna try the stock rom and see whether it helps or not, and if it won't I'll send it to rma. My question is how to recover original soft from nandroid backup, cause I tried and got stuck with bootloop. Do I have to recover the old firmware as well? I found some thread on how to remove clockwork and root, put the phone back S-ON and so on but I would have to recover stock rom first, right? I know I can also flash the stock rom, but the only one I found is not matching perfectly my original one, so I would rather get it back from backup. This phone is just so freaking annoying...
Thanks in advance
You have to boot into custom recovery, be it clockworkmod or another one, then go into "backups and recovery", and from there, restore from backup, then you have to choose your nandroid backup, provided that you have performed it, and select restore (all).
That's it, good luck.
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dagomez99 said:
You have to boot into custom recovery, be it clockworkmod or another one, then go into "backups and recovery", and from there, restore from backup, then you have to choose your nandroid backup, provided that you have performed it, and select restore (all).
That's it, good luck.
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I've done it already but as I wrote before I ended up in bootloop. I think it might be caused by firmware which I flashed in order to install ARHD (Firmware from 3.33.401.6 & 3.33.401.106 RUU). But I don't have any info about the version of previous FW and don't really know if this is the issue.
Anyone? Please have mercy, I'm getting killed by this phone. Help
I am fairly new to rooting and flashing custom roms world. I have a HTC EVO 4G LTE, which is rooted but S-On and with TWRP 2.6 recovery installed.
After usingSense based roms, MeanBean, Viperand Sense 5 port, for a few months, I installed BeanStalk rom (Android 4.3) a few nights ago just to try out. After trying this rom out for the last few days, I realized that I prefer Sense based rom so I attempted to restore to the nandroid backup of the Viper rom that I was using before I flashed BeanStalk. I was able to restore the VIper rom but while rebooting the system, it got stuck on HTC screen and then the screen just shut off after a while. The same thing occurred when I tried to restore to MeanBean rom as well. However, the funny thing is that BeanStalk rom backup I made booted up fine. I am at wits end with this. Anyone has any advice and solution on my predicament?
Thanks in advance for advise and solution to resolve this issue and sorry for my lengthy post.
James
My suggestion would be start from scratch and clean flash viper or meanbean again.
EVOlved human
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Also try installing an earlier version of TWRP. Some people are reporting bugs with 2.6.
EVOlved human
Try wiping everything before restoring. I've had that same issue before on several versions of TWRP.
Since you are s-on in order to get your nand backups to work you need to extract the boot.img from said roms and fastboot it:
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Restore your nand, then reboot to bootloader and flash the boot.img
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chaibaby said:
I am fairly new to rooting and flashing custom roms world. I have a HTC EVO 4G LTE, which is rooted but S-On and with TWRP 2.6 recovery installed.
After usingSense based roms, MeanBean, Viperand Sense 5 port, for a few months, I installed BeanStalk rom (Android 4.3) a few nights ago just to try out. After trying this rom out for the last few days, I realized that I prefer Sense based rom so I attempted to restore to the nandroid backup of the Viper rom that I was using before I flashed BeanStalk. I was able to restore the VIper rom but while rebooting the system, it got stuck on HTC screen and then the screen just shut off after a while. The same thing occurred when I tried to restore to MeanBean rom as well. However, the funny thing is that BeanStalk rom backup I made booted up fine. I am at wits end with this. Anyone has any advice and solution on my predicament?
Thanks in advance for advise and solution to resolve this issue and sorry for my lengthy post.
James
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jocarog said:
Since you are s-on in order to get your nand backups to work you need to extract the boot.img from said roms and fastboot it:
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Restore your nand, then reboot to bootloader and flash the boot.img
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Thanks to all who have posted suggestions to help me out.
I tried wiping everything before restoring my backup and it still get stuck on HTC screen . I'll try fresh install of a Sense based rom tonight after work when I can devote more time to my phone. The weirdest part is that I can restore BeanStalk rom backup that I made straight from TWRP. I wonder if the problem I'm experiencing has to do with trying to go from a CM10 based rom back to Sense based roms. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Nvm
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jocarog said:
Since you are s-on in order to get your nand backups to work you need to extract the boot.img from said roms and fastboot it:
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Restore your nand, then reboot to bootloader and flash the boot.img
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@jocarog. Thanks for your instruction. I finally tried it last night and it worked beautifully. I did not realize that boot image has to flashed separately even for nandroid restore. Greatly appreciated. :good:
jocarog said:
Since you are s-on in order to get your nand backups to work you need to extract the boot.img from said roms and fastboot it:
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Restore your nand, then reboot to bootloader and flash the boot.img
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I am just curious if I can use the app Flash Image GUI to flash the kernel (boot image) and then go to TWRP recovery to restore the said backup?
Glad you got it working and for flash gui, personally I've never used it but give it a try and let us know...
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Howdy Everyone,
So just tried rooting my new m8 and now I'm stuck endlessly booting into TWRP. I thought I did everything correctly: Unlocked the bootloader, installed the USB drivers, installed the ADB fastboot drivers and then flashed twrp 2.7.0.3. I get to the the htc logo screen/warning and, bam, back to twrp everytime.
Does anyone know how to fix this??? The last time i was rooting and installing custom mods was back in samsung galaxy s2 days, so my knowledge is a little dated. Please help!!
PirateP3t3 said:
Howdy Everyone,
So just tried rooting my new m8 and now I'm stuck endlessly booting into TWRP. I thought I did everything correctly: Unlocked the bootloader, installed the USB drivers, installed the ADB fastboot drivers and then flashed twrp 2.7.0.3. I get to the the htc logo screen/warning and, bam, back to twrp everytime.
Does anyone know how to fix this??? The last time i was rooting and installing custom mods was back in samsung galaxy s2 days, so my knowledge is a little dated. Please help!!
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Did you boot system after unlocking boot loader? or did you flash twrp right away. also 2.7.0.4 is out. Did you use the UL_CA twrp and not the WHL? Need more info, has it booted since you installed twrp?
an0ther said:
Did you boot system after unlocking boot loader? or did you flash twrp right away. also 2.7.0.4 is out. Did you use the UL_CA twrp and not the WHL? Need more info, has it booted since you installed twrp?
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Yes, I remember booting back into the phone after unlocking the boot loader. I made some calls, sent some texts, then flashed twrp.
I used the UL-CA version after following these instructions. androidcentral.us/2014/04/root-att-htc-one-m8/ (ugh, won't let me link)
I'm not sure what the difference between that and the WHL is.
Also, not sure what you mean by "has it booted since you installed twrp", I've tried rebooting it numerous times, but it just goes back into twrp.
Thanks!!
PirateP3t3 said:
Yes, I remember booting back into the phone after unlocking the boot loader. I made some calls, sent some texts, then flashed twrp.
I used the UL-CA version after following these instructions. androidcentral.us/2014/04/root-att-htc-one-m8/ (ugh, won't let me link)
I'm not sure what the difference between that and the WHL is.
Also, not sure what you mean by "has it booted since you installed twrp", I've tried rebooting it numerous times, but it just goes back into twrp.
Thanks!!
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Well i'm not actually sure what happened there but I ended up just flashing a custom rom. I was really trying to stick with stock for now but whatever. Anyways, thanks for the reply and I have much to learn
PirateP3t3 said:
Well i'm not actually sure what happened there but I ended up just flashing a custom rom. I was really trying to stick with stock for now but whatever. Anyways, thanks for the reply and I have much to learn
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The stock nandroid for twrp is available to download. Stock is super bloated anyway. Make sure you get newer version of twrp.
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Whl is for Sprint.
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