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Nexus one only going to the "Android system recovery <2e>" screen

When booting the Nexus One I get an Android with an explanation point, then I am able to toggle the volume key and power to get into "Android system recovery <2e>" screen which gives me the options
-reboot system now
-apply sdcard:update.zip
-wipe data/factory reset
-wipe cache partition
when it's in this screen I can NOT access it through fastboot or adb.
It looks like it is only allowing me to push "officially" signed update.zip files to it and nothing else.
I cannot get it in to hboot or anything else it ONLY boots into "Android system recovery <2e>"
Maybe someone has an official update.zip boot image they can send me to or some other idea it would be much appreciated since I cannot use the phone at all.
Thank you in advanced, Please help!!!

Did you try holding trackball and power button when the phone is turned off to bring you directly to fastboot?

irishrally said:
Did you try holding trackball and power button when the phone is turned off to bring you directly to fastboot?
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Yes, with no luck, it just goes straight to the Android and explanation point

Are you rooted? Unlocked bootloader? What did you do to get you into this situation?
Not to worry you, but usually not being able to boot into fastboot is not a good thing.

hyperandy said:
Maybe someone has an official update.zip boot image they can send me to or some other idea it would be much appreciated since I cannot use the phone at all.
Thank you in advanced, Please help!!!
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Heres a thread that contains the official 2.1 update1 zip.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=627823
Maybe the volume key or trackball is stuck/damaged?

irishrally said:
Are you rooted? Unlocked bootloader? What did you do to get you into this situation?
Not to worry you, but usually not being able to boot into fastboot is not a good thing.
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ya at this point I was kinda figuring that but I am hopeful ...I unlocked the boot loader and everything was going great until I partitioned the sd in the recovery image, then I started getting a weird MISC error and couldn't boot up at all, only in recovery but fastboot and everything still worked. Then I saw a post about applying the original image to the device via fastboot, preformed that and ever since then I have had a $500 brink that lights up

I don't think you can brick the N1 by just flashing a ROM, usually this only happens when changing the radio or spl.
I would try taking out your sd card, copy all your files you your computer, format your sd card, copy your files back to your sd card and see what that does for you. Maybe some issue arose when you partitioned your sd card, although you said fastboot still worked until you flashed the ROM. Worth a shot though.
If you can access fastboot then, I would flash Amon Ra's custom recovery image via fastboot and take it from there.

well I actually tried a completely different sdcard and then none at all. No luck. If it's not letting me into hboot do you think it may have gotten corrupted or something

hyperandy said:
well I actually tried a completely different sdcard and then none at all. No luck. If it's not letting me into hboot do you think it may have gotten corrupted or something
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Honetly, I don't know. Did you try copying the .zip in the link posted above to your sdcard and then applying that zip in recovery?
Hopefully someone that knows more than me will chime in and have some better ideas.

irishrally said:
Honetly, I don't know. Did you try copying the .zip in the link posted above to your sdcard and then applying that zip in recovery?
Hopefully someone that knows more than me will chime in and have some better ideas.
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maybe it's because I just woke up but I am not clear what you are asking, can you rephrase that? The link above my SD card?

hyperandy said:
maybe it's because I just woke up but I am not clear what you are asking, can you rephrase that? The link above my SD card?
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Did you try copying the .zip file in the link below to your sd card and trying to flash it in recovery?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=627823

Thank you, ya I didn't see the link the first time. duh. Yep I tried that and I get a build.prop error (although this update says installing for a second and i see a progress bar, I have tried that same file from a few download locations to make sure it wasn't a bad download too):
file_getprop: Failed to stat "/system/build.prop": No such file or directory
E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted
Thank you for all your help!! but I am afraid this isn't looking to good.

I also tried creating that file just to see but since it wasn't officially signed it gave me an error about that

I think at this point it is looking for a specific signed update.zip file, where I find that, I have no idea.
It almost seems like I need the whole update.zip officially signed by google and/or HTC and then it would flash. I highly doubt they are going to hand that over. I am half temped to see if I could send it in to them to be reflashed even for a fee if it means I can get this thing working again, but I don't even know if they would offer that. It's only 2 months old and I think the file I need maybe out there but damned if I have been able to find it anywhere.

hyperandy said:
I think at this point it is looking for a specific signed update.zip file, where I find that, I have no idea.
It almost seems like I need the whole update.zip officially signed by google and/or HTC and then it would flash. I highly doubt they are going to hand that over. I am half temped to see if I could send it in to them to be reflashed even for a fee if it means I can get this thing working again, but I don't even know if they would offer that. It's only 2 months old and I think the file I need maybe out there but damned if I have been able to find it anywhere.
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I wouldn't give up yet. I'm sure there is someone out there that can tell you you are completely hosed, or help you fix the problem.
If you can't fix it, I have heard it will cost $196 for a new motherboard if you send it in to HTC. They could just reflash your phone but I heard they handle a case like this by charging you for a motherboard swap. Second hand information though.

irishrally said:
I wouldn't give up yet. I'm sure there is someone out there that can tell you you are completely hosed, or help you fix the problem.
If you can't fix it, I have heard it will cost $196 for a new motherboard if you send it in to HTC. They could just reflash your phone but I heard they handle a case like this by charging you for a motherboard swap. Second hand information though.
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I believe that, I work in the field service industry and I see stuff like that all the time. Although I would rather pay the 196 instead of 560+ again. I am almost 100% certain this could be re-flashed with the right file. but I have so far spent 2 full days trying different things, I think I will give it until tomorrow and then send it in (by then I should be good an sick of searching). Unfortunately, I am in love with my Nexus. it's been a while since I had a phone I really enjoyed as much. If I knew another great phone was coming out in a week I would probably say the heck with it and just buy the next one but this is still an awesome device.

hyperandy said:
I believe that, I work in the field service industry and I see stuff like that all the time. Although I would rather pay the 196 instead of 560+ again. I am almost 100% certain this could be re-flashed with the right file. but I have so far spent 2 full days trying different things, I think I will give it until tomorrow and then send it in (by then I should be good an sick of searching). Unfortunately, I am in love with my Nexus. it's been a while since I had a phone I really enjoyed as much. If I knew another great phone was coming out in a week I would probably say the heck with it and just buy the next one but this is still an awesome device.
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Have you tried every option in all the other "HELP BRICK" posts?? I don't really have time to search (and my nexus is working fine) but I know there has been plenty of threads like this before. Multiple options where tried, some successfully and some not. I would not give up unless it won't power on at all. Does ADB logcat work during a boot? Fastboot Devices? anything??????

martin0285 said:
Have you tried every option in all the other "HELP BRICK" posts?? I don't really have time to search (and my nexus is working fine) but I know there has been plenty of threads like this before. Multiple options where tried, some successfully and some not. I would not give up unless it won't power on at all. Does ADB logcat work during a boot? Fastboot Devices? anything??????
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No haven't tried those checking the Help Brick post I will see what I can find. No adb and not fastboot devices, just says waiting for device if I try anything.

Since you have unlocked the bootloader have you tried a complete reload?
fastboot: flash boot, flash recovery
recovery: wipe everything, reset, install latest CM.

Did you ever figure this out?

[Q] bricked htc hero

so my brother rooted his hero and flashed a custom theme a few months ago but did it incorrectly and bricked it i can get into hboot but when i try to get into recovery it stays on the white HTC screen and wont get passed that.. the same happens when i try to start it up normally... is there anyway to unbrick my phone.... i'd appreciate any kind of help.... etc. link, answers, other threads, or videos.... its his first android phone and i'd really like to help him unbrick it

DJ1395 said:
so my brother rooted his hero and flashed a custom theme a few months ago but did it incorrectly and bricked it i can get into hboot but when i try to get into recovery it stays on the white HTC screen and wont get passed that.. the same happens when i try to start it up normally... is there anyway to unbrick my phone.... i'd appreciate any kind of help.... etc. link, answers, other threads, or videos.... its his first android phone and i'd really like to help him unbrick it
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Haven't messed with a hero in a long time, but since you can get into h-boot, try to find a HERCIMG.zip of either the recovery or a full rom. (I see you now have an Evo, so HERCIMG.zip is just the Hero version of the PC36IMG for the Evo). Since the hero is pretty easy to root, I would suggest the entire rom to start fresh. If you are not familiar with HERCIMG.zip, put it on the root of your sd card and boot to hboot. It should then prompt you for the update.

eme82 said:
Haven't messed with a hero in a long time, but since you can get into h-boot, try to find a HERCIMG.zip of either the recovery or a full rom. (I see you now have an Evo, so HERCIMG.zip is just the Hero version of the PC36IMG for the Evo). Since the hero is pretty easy to root, I would suggest the entire rom to start fresh. If you are not familiar with HERCIMG.zip, put it on the root of your sd card and boot to hboot. It should then prompt you for the update.
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i'm gonna give that a shot and let you know what happens.... what should i do after it installs? should i try to boot into recovery and try to flash a rom from the ruu?

DJ1395 said:
i'm gonna give that a shot and let you know what happens.... what should i do after it installs? should i try to boot into recovery and try to flash a rom from the ruu?
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If you are using a full rom image, you will need to re-root. Just use the one-click root for the Hero. But yes after you flash the image, I would boot just to make sure you are now good.
If just use a recovery img then try to boot into recovery and flash a very basic, maybe stock like rom.

i downloaded a HERCIMG.zip and hboot wont recognize it.... i think its because i have the latest hboot and radio already installed so i dont know what to do now... i've done hard reset, clear storage and i still can only get the white htc start screen and it stays there for hours until the battery dies i've done a hard reset and now my phone says s-on so somewhere in the process of trying to fix this i've lost my s-off.... i have no idea what to do :'(

DJ1395 said:
i downloaded a HERCIMG.zip and hboot wont recognize it.... i think its because i have the latest hboot and radio already installed so i dont know what to do now... i've done hard reset, clear storage and i still can only get the white htc start screen and it stays there for hours until the battery dies i've done a hard reset and now my phone says s-on so somewhere in the process of trying to fix this i've lost my s-off.... i have no idea what to do :'(
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Try Fastbooting... if you Plug it into your Computer and press Volume Up (I believe?) You Should be able to get into Fastboot and Hopefully Fix your Problem!
Good Luck!

DJ1395 said:
i downloaded a HERCIMG.zip and hboot wont recognize it.... i think its because i have the latest hboot and radio already installed so i dont know what to do now... i've done hard reset, clear storage and i still can only get the white htc start screen and it stays there for hours until the battery dies i've done a hard reset and now my phone says s-on so somewhere in the process of trying to fix this i've lost my s-off.... i have no idea what to do :'(
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Reflash darchs eng-spl to enable fast boot commands. It will give you s-off again. If you can't find it let me know. Also I'd recommended flashing it with ra1.6,1.7 or cwm2.5. After you flash the s-off zip your phone should flash the hercimg.zip
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laie1472 said:
Reflash darchs eng-spl to enable fast boot commands. It will give you s-off again. If you can't find it let me know. Also I'd recommended flashing it with ra1.6,1.7 or cwm2.5. After you flash the s-off zip your phone should flash the hercimg.zip
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I don't have s-off I have no recovery so idk how to flash anything so I'm at a loss again.... I do really appreciate everyones help though thanks guys

DJ1395 said:
I don't have s-off I have no recovery so idk how to flash anything so I'm at a loss again.... I do really appreciate everyones help though thanks guys
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Try this... See if it Helps?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804692

What did u name the zip file?
... it's been a common mistake with this process that people actually name "hercimg.zip", which now becomes "hercimg.zip.zip"
But u have to name it just "hercimg" since it's already a zip file.
Its just a thought ... and plz excuse me for questioning u if u did it correctly and it truly did not work.
Good luck and take care
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk

PMGRANDS said:
Try this... See if it Helps?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804692
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Thanks!
This worked perfect for my un-rooted, bricked Hero!
Jim

otb4evr said:
Thanks!
This worked perfect for my un-rooted, bricked Hero!
Jim
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It Worked? Great man... Glad it Helped you!

Every ROM I flash gets stuck on the flash screen. Thoughts?

I just bought a used Hero as a temporary phone and I'm trying to get off the stock rom. I rooted the phone and flashed a MIUI rom. It got stuck on the splash screen during boot. Not feeling like dealing with it, I just ended up RUUing it. Then I rerooted it and tried another rom...same deal. Now I back to stock again. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thanks

You didn't firate anything, did you?

Try manualy flashing the boot.img in the rom from fastboot. Sometimes thats the problem.
Regards
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oohaylima said:
You didn't firate anything, did you?
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Urban dictionary tells me that means fake pirating...? If that's the case, no. I haven't even installed anything let alone log into my google account.
EDIT: I'm guessing you meant firerat. Nope, I haven't messed with anything.
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Try manualy flashing the boot.img in the rom from fastboot. Sometimes thats the problem.
Regards
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Good idea. I'd need abd for that though to run the commands right? I'm really trying hard to avoid installing it on my computer.

Why ?? If your going to be modding your phone s-off,eng-bootloader & adb are all tools you will definitely need. If not then you may have a few headaches down the line if something goes wrong.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\

laie1472 said:
Why ?? If your going to be modding your phone s-off,eng-bootloader & adb are all tools you will definitely need. If not then you may have a few headaches down the line if something goes wrong.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
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I won't be doing anything beyond flashing a custom rom.

I just dug up my Hero. It had CM6 previously. I tried flashing an updated ROM and it does not get past the HTC logo. I tried 4 different ROMs. Using CMW recovery. Wipe/Format all...and nothing.

Yeah I'm completely out of ideas. I may just have to suck it up and install adb.

Which version of CWM are you running? I've used 2.5.0.1 for all of my ROMs and never had a problem. I should have the zip to flash through recovery and the HERCIMG flashable through HBOOT if you wanna try.
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Adb is a breeze to install. Takes less than 20 min. Pm me if and when you wanna set it up, and believe me when I say you will not regret it. Adb makes modding your phone a little easier.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\

scl23enn4m3 said:
Yeah I'm completely out of ideas. I may just have to suck it up and install adb.
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What radio do you have? I remember people having issues when using the older radio (.27) instead of the newer (.29). Then again, it might not make a difference at all either. Just a thought.

i second drunkpilots radio idea, thats what gave me a headache for an hour the other night wondering why my cm7 wouldnt boot, updated to newest sprint radio and bam booted right up

Alright I just upgraded my radio. What's the best/easiest way to root it from here since I'm back to stock now?

System partition not booting up?

I'll try to keep this one explained simple
- Was running have boot loader unlocked and am rooted, was trickdroid
- Decided to try what else was out there for ROMS, switched to Renovate rom, was a downgrade from trickdroid in my eyes
- Decided to switch to one more rom before making the jump back to trickdroid, accidentally wiped internal storage data along with everything else
- After wasting most of my day messing with this crap, I finally got everything back to somewhat operational again
- My internal memory and Cache at one point were unmountable and read 0MB, had to do a factory reset via boot loader then a full wipe using TWRP
- Finally have trickdroid installed and its semi operational, aside from the fact that when I load it, it instantly has no service, no internet, nothing. It sends me to the launcher portion and there are no apps on there either. Shortly after it starts it will restart the device.
-After doing several restarts into recovery I have confirmed that the system partition consistently unchecks itself and I have already attempted fixing permissions several times and doing a system wipe and full ROM install again.. same issue to no avail.
- Last night I actually managed to pull up icons and programs, somehow, but again there was no system being loaded up
A little help please? I am in a state of a soft brick at this point, which is not bad considering I had a SUPER HARD brick earlier.
Help me, please. I just want to get this phone back to a functioning state!

Armygoat05 said:
- Finally have trickdroid installed and its semi operational, aside from the fact that when I load it, it instantly has no service, no internet, nothing. It sends me to the launcher portion and there are no apps on there either. Shortly after it starts it will restart the device.
-After doing several restarts into recovery I have confirmed that the system partition consistently unchecks itself and I have already attempted fixing permissions several times and doing a system wipe and full ROM install again.. same issue to no avail.
- Last night I actually managed to pull up icons and programs, somehow, but again there was no system being loaded up
A little help please? I am in a state of a soft brick at this point, which is not bad considering I had a SUPER HARD brick earlier.
Help me, please. I just want to get this phone back to a functioning state!
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A hard brick is unrecoverable. It means your phone is literally as responsive as a brick. I would say your phone is pretty functional if the actual OS loads.
Anyway, have you tried RUU? That usually brings everything back to normal. Be sure to use the correct one, and note that you will lose EVERYTHING. Even root.
EDIT: Try this.

sauprankul said:
A hard brick is unrecoverable. It means your phone is literally as responsive as a brick. I would say your phone is pretty functional if the actual OS loads.
Anyway, have you tried RUU? That usually brings everything back to normal. Be sure to use the correct one, and note that you will lose EVERYTHING. Even root.
EDIT: Try this.
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So I did try using this link and downloaded the full zip file and unzipped as per instructions of QBKing77 off of youtube, then clicked setup.exe within the folder which was unzipped, but after it ran through its setup process, nothing else popped up? I tried doing it as well through hasoons all in one toolkit but while that worked, it didn't work as expected and it just stayed at the black htc screen. I'm lost at the moment.

Trickdroid works on the Sprint variant?
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sounds to me like you flashed an international rom and messed up your partitions
run an RUU

flex360 said:
sounds to me like you flashed an international rom and messed up your partitions
run an RUU
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That's what I was thinking too.
Sent from my HTCONE using xda premium

We should add to the Q/A sticky the names of ROMs NOT to flash like Android revolution, trickdroid, etc.
P.S. He tried RUU, he's having trouble.

sauprankul said:
We should add to the Q/A sticky the names of ROMs NOT to flash like Android revolution, trickdroid, etc.
P.S. He tried RUU, he's having trouble.
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I'll add it right now
Done Q21

bigdaddy619 said:
I'll add it right now
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Sweet, will save a lot of noobs a lot of trouble.

sauprankul said:
Sweet, will save a lot of noobs a lot of trouble.
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Maybe if they actually read it haha

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Maybe if they actually read it haha
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It wouldn't be as bad if the Int'l forum was marked so. If I were new, I would assume all HTC Ones are the same too.

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It wouldn't be as bad if the Int'l forum was marked so. If I were new, I would assume all HTC Ones are the same too.
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Very true there are HTC One forums for:
International
Sprint
AT&T
T-Mobile
So it could be confusing to some

Hello from my finally unbricked one! Turns out I was having issues with the computer itself launching installshield so it wouldn't keep the factory RUU running. I did it from a different computer and it did it in stride.. I'm so happy to have this thing back. So on a sidenote I had to rwlock bootloader and then I had to reload the factory RUU.

[Q] Need Help please with strange bootloop problem

A friend has asked me to try and fix there M7 ul. It was. Completely stock on O2 UK. They got a notification for system update (4.4.2 Sense6.0). While installing they left the phone and when they came back it was off. After some fiddling they managed to get it to come on but it would only boot to the bootloader which had Tampered and Locked flags.
This is where I came in so I tried booting to stock recovery to see if the OTA would complete but it was a no go. The screen just stayed black for ages then eventually would show the phone picture with red exclamation. Using volume up+power to get the recovery menu to reset cache returned it to the normal picture with green arrows. But reboot and repeat So I tried fastboot erase cache and attempted ota again with same results.
At this point I told them that anything more I tried may void the warranty so better to send it in but there is no warranty so asked me to do whatever I can. Naturally for me the next step was to unlock the bootloader to regain some control. First I just let the phone boot this time no bootloader screen but it just looped on the HTC splash screen.(i kind of expected that). So next I reboot bootloader and flash twrp2.6.3.3 erase cache and boot recovery. ARHD rom was already in my android folder so pushed it strait over. Ran into some pitfalls trying to flash the rom like instant reboots when flashing started and disappearing zip files fixed with e2fsck, zip failed message fixed with Format data and eventually got the rom installed. I know first boot normally takes a while but this seemed longer than expected but eventually booted the rom and everything seemed to be working fine.
After setting up the basics and testing a few things (installing and running apps. Playing music and so on) I rebooted the phone but again it bootloops on HTC splash screen. Tried everything to get it to boot like wipeing cache/dalvik, dirty flash, clean install even fix permissions nothing worked except Format Data in Twrp Full wipe, re-push rom re-flash rom. Phone took a while but booted and again worked perfectly while setting up and using the phone. So tried restart and again bootloop on HTC splash
So I'm now at a point where I think I've narrowed it down to the Kernel or Ramdisk or atleast the partition there installed on. Since if I use the Superwipe script to wipe only the boot partition cache/dalvik then refresh the boot.img or flash a kernel from recovery (i've been using bulletproof kernel) the phone will boot with the rom and settings intact.
If there is a problem with this partition I do not know how to fix it. I know mmcblk0p33 is the boot partition but is it where the boot.img actually lives or is that the bootloader partition?
If it is the boot.img partition can I repair it with mke2fs or e2fsck or some other tool?
There is an ruu available for the device so if I can just stop the bootloop I could s-off and then ruu and return it to stock. But firewater won't work and I think it's because of the procedure involved in getting the phone to boot is interfering with the push somehow. Firewater will push ok and chmod works but when I try to run firewater nothing happens and then the firewater file disappears and I have to push it again which means re-wipeing and flashing the kernel. I'm really not sure where to go from here any help or suggestions would be most appreciated thanks in advance :fingers-crossed:

Ok so s-off is out of the question since this phone has emmc cid 9001 best I can hope for now is a firmware.zip. I did keep trying firewater and eventually got it to run but sure enough I got Whelp this sucks!!
Would using cwm to format boot be any different to what superwipe dose? It says Format Boot but dose it actually format it or just wipe the data from it? I haven't used cwm since my galaxy ace days.

Danny201281 said:
Ok so s-off is out of the question since this phone has emmc cid 9001 best I can hope for now is a firmware.zip. I did keep trying firewater and eventually got it to run but sure enough I got Whelp this sucks!!
Would using cwm to format boot be any different to what superwipe dose? It says Format Boot but dose it actually format it or just wipe the data from it? I haven't used cwm since my galaxy ace days.
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you could try a full wipe firmware.zip and HBOOT, you will have to use the one you currently have on the device or the next newer one due to s-on, it will / should re-write your partitions, try looking here:
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Seanie280672 said:
you could try a full wipe firmware.zip and HBOOT, you will have to use the one you currently have on the device or the next newer one due to s-on, it will / should re-write your partitions, try looking here:
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Thanks for reply.
Yep I've been looking for a firmware.zip it on 5.12.206.3 all I can find is an ruu.exe but it's the version before. I searched the updates thread and no one seems to have captured the OTA file so can't even extract from there.

Danny201281 said:
Thanks for reply.
Yep I've been looking for a firmware.zip it on 5.12.206.3 all I can find is an ruu.exe but it's the version before. I searched the updates thread and no one seems to have captured the OTA file so can't even extract from there.
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trouble is, you will need the full firmware, not just an OTA, and the wipe version, usually I see the page with the HBOOTs and firmwares everywhere, do you think I can find it now I need it...........
found it finally, check see if yours is in there, full wipe section: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LQDLpVZYyUpXPgC2sh1BvAS9Oo8B-fTiZU_JhpIH-fU/pubhtml#
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trouble is too, you cant s-off without a working rom on it, unless you can find someone who can do it by java card for you which is all done from the bootloader.

Seanie280672 said:
trouble is, you will need the full firmware, not just an OTA, and the wipe version, usually I see the page with the HBOOTs and firmwares everywhere, do you think I can find it now I need it...........
found it finally, check see if yours is in there, full wipe section: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LQDLpVZYyUpXPgC2sh1BvAS9Oo8B-fTiZU_JhpIH-fU/pubhtml#
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Thanks for looking I'll start searching for it now. I hope there's something out there. :fingers-crossed:

Danny201281 said:
Thanks for looking I'll start searching for it now. I hope there's something out there. :fingers-crossed:
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is it the HTC one ? or the HTC one Mini ?

Danny201281 said:
Thanks for looking I'll start searching for it now. I hope there's something out there. :fingers-crossed:
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I can get a working rom no problem but it will only boot if I superwipe the boot partition and reflash kernel. Other wise it just bootloops.
But I've already had the whelp this sucks message so no s-off that's why's I need a matching firmware.

Seanie280672 said:
is it the HTC one ? or the HTC one Mini ?
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HTC one M7_UL

Danny201281 said:
HTC one M7_UL
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The only RUU I could find is 4.xx.206.xx, you really need s-off to sort it, as you cant use that RUU, there is no RUU for your current version as its all ota's to get to that point, you may have some luck if you can find the next one up which will be 6.06.206.xx.
however, if you are in the UK and can live without your phone for a few days, then give these guys a call, book your phone in with them, and send it to them, they will s-off it by java card and send it back the same day, overall it takes about 3 or 4 days, its who I used, they were very helpful and friendly bunch of guys, best £15 quid ive ever spent.
http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/Unlocking/htc_s-off_service.htm
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actually, im over thinking things, have you tried this, it should also re-write your partitions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684

Seanie280672 said:
actually, im over thinking things, have you tried this, it should also re-write your partitions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684
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Yes I remember this thread starting up I had considered this but not sure it would work as phone isn't in qhusb dload plus no evidence so far (i've still got some posts to read) it works with s-on. But I'll definitely give it a try if all else fails. Thanks again

Well I don't know if it's from the repeated wiping and flashing of the kernel or what but the phone seems to boot every time without the need to reflash the kernel now. Only it takes about 20mins looping once or twice on the splash screen. Once it gets past that from the boot animation onwards it works flawlessly. I can't get my head around it.

Just to put some closure to this. It's determined to be a hardware problem. Possibly a damaged memory chip. I did manage to return it to stock before handing it back to the owner with the bad news. But it will not boot the stock Rom at all just loops endlessly on the HTC LOGO splash screen.
Case closed
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