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Okay, so i've been on and off these forums and never decided to create an account until now. (I know you guys see these types of threads a lot)
I have an HTC Vivid and can't get it to boot. Whenever I try turning it on, it goes into fastboot (I have bootloader unlocked) or HBOOT.
I have tried getting CWM on it, but whenever it reboots, it gets stuck at the HTC logo like when you usually boot.
I can re-lock the bootloader, but it wont change a thing.
Also, when I type [adb devices] my device doesn't show up, but the phone says FASTBOOT USE.
When I try a factory reset, all it does is reboot the phone. Also I do not have a SD card with me.
This is my second HTC Vivid (the first one was rooted successfully with the Illiminati ROM but had a malfunction so I got a new one under warranty)
I have been using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450396
and this program: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498003 (which may be the cause to all of this idk)
I would invest in a cheap micro sd. I used the zip from the guide thread to restore mine back to stock (although I believe you have to relock bootloader first) and then try to unlock and root etc after that. I know that may not help if you have no way to get an sd. But they are always handy!
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We need more details as to how this happened. What did you do/trying to do when it started messing up?
oem relock and flash original ruu to go back to stock then go back through steps...
Wild Child said:
oem relock and flash original ruu to go back to stock then go back through steps...
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this would be correct
i agree with above post. +1
a god is coming so you know
Wild Child said:
oem relock and flash original ruu to go back to stock then go back through steps...
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I try doing this but cmd gives me:
... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!
i have the HTC drivers
DjSpunz said:
I try doing this but cmd gives me:
... INFO[ERR] Command error !!!
i have the HTC drivers
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You shouldn't be flashing the RUU thru cwm, it's a program that is ran on the computer
doktor buknasty said:
You shouldn't be flashing the RUU thru cwm, it's a program that is ran on the computer
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What program?
Im a noob at this and this is my first android phone...
I'm good at listening to instructions so can someone please tell me what to do step by step???
I can't unlock bootloader, as it gets stuck at the boot screen
DjSpunz said:
What program?
Im a noob at this and this is my first android phone...
I'm good at listening to instructions so can someone please tell me what to do step by step???
I can't unlock bootloader, as it gets stuck at the boot screen
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fastboot oem lock is the command.
From there, get ruu.exe, connect phone to computer, run the ruu by doubleclicking on the computer, follow the directions of the ruu program.
From there you can unlock the bootloader using the guides posted and flash recovery, then flash custom rom.
DjSpunz said:
What program?
Im a noob at this and this is my first android phone...
I'm good at listening to instructions so can someone please tell me what to do step by step???
I can't unlock bootloader, as it gets stuck at the boot screen
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If you've never done fastboot or adb before, my guess is that you are probably running stock. If that's the case, got to htc's website and download the drivers for the Vivid, then plug your phone in and proceed to run the RUU.exe. If the drivers are properly installed, the RUU should detect your phone and update it to ICS (make sure to back up your files as phone storage will be erased as well).
So I was really dumb and tried to factory reset my phone while I was on a custom rom and now am stuck in a boot loop. I have been googling around to try and figure out what to do but nothing seems to work. When I try and Hboot an RUU stock file it gets stuck at UserData. I also cannot get into recovery only Hboot.
I am relocked and S-On. Don't know what else to do. Is it beyond repair?
Ok when you run the ruu are you selecting fastboot in the hboot screen ? Does it say USB after fastboot when connected ?
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Ok when you run the ruu are you selecting fastboot in the hboot screen ? Does it say USB after fastboot when connected ?
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When i hold down power and volume down it goes to the Hboot screen and it automatically looks for the PH39IMG.zip file so no I am not running fastboot but when I do select fastboot it only says fastboot no USB (i do not have it plugged into PC btw).
When you select fastboot , then plug it in the pc and it should go USB , if not you need to install the drivers
If you need the drivers you dl htc sync manager , or dl the toolkit in the dev forum and install them that way .
Fastboot USB is showing up but HTC Sync is saying there are no devices connected, not sure if thats a problem.
Ok did you do this when you ran the ruu ?
brandork said:
Fastboot USB is showing up but HTC Sync is saying there are no devices connected, not sure if thats a problem.
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HTC sync looks for devices that are powered on...just try and run the ruu..listen to bigtjmc
AND DON'T UNPLUG ONCE IT'S GOING, THE PROCESS TAKES A WHILE...
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Well I was actually extracting the RUU image from my PC's temp folder then placing it on my phone to allow Hboot to find it. I am now running the actual RUU software on my PC and it seems to be working. I will update when its finished. Thanks so much for your help.
Right on ,
Let us know what happens .
The ruu is stuck at 34%...I have it plugged in still not sure what to do from here
How long has it been stuck?
Don't unplug it...just let it sit...
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sorry guys I was in class and couldnt respond. so right now i went through the RUU recovery steps and it allowed me to re-do the RUU setup. I just redid it thinking my PC may have messed up but I am stuck at 34% again. Any suggestions for what I should do after I recover it again?
edit: forgot to mention that I left it for a few hours while in class and it took me to the recovery setup
Can you get into recovery when it sends you there ?
no I cannot get into recovery. All i can do is get into fastboot.
Right but what recovery setup you mentioned earlier ? Maybe you got a bad ruu download try and re dl it or try a different version.
Sorry the recovery I mentioned was a recovery process the RUU takes you through when an update fails. I also have tried about 4 different downloads to no avail. I have been using this file here
Ok , what Rom did you have on the phone ?
I couldnt tell you for sure I installed it pretty quickly after the ICS update was available. I want to say I installed one of the HTC Holiday or Raider ICS roms because that was available before the Vivid one. Once that was installed I rooted.
Ok one last thing and I will see what I can come up with , the ruu screen when it stopped at 34% what was it trying or waiting on ?
When I boot my phone up I'm stuck on the HTC splash screen.
I read before that I can put a file on my SD card and use HBOOT to recover from this. My question is: I want to restore my phone to the factory rom, what file do I use?
AT&T HTC VIVID HBOOT 1.85.0025
are you s-on or s-off? if your s-on you can just flash the RUU and get back to stock. But you dont flash hboot only time you do that is when you s-off and you do it once. But if you get stuck at the htc screen while flashing a rom your probably s-on you need to flash the kernel using fastboot commands. We need more info on your situation
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are you s-on or s-off? if your s-on you can just flash the RUU and get back to stock. But you dont flash hboot only time you do that is when you s-off and you do it once. But if you get stuck at the htc screen while flashing a rom your probably s-on you need to flash the kernel using fastboot commands. We need more info on your situation
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Thanks for the reply. My phone was completely stock, so I take it I was s-on? I'll do more reading on this s-on/s-off stuff before proceeding. Thanks again.
628 said:
Thanks for the reply. My phone was completely stock, so I take it I was s-on? I'll do more reading on this s-on/s-off stuff before proceeding. Thanks again.
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yea its best to read everything a few times. and remember as long as your bootloader is locked you can flash an RUU so if youve never messed with it im sure it is
628 said:
Thanks for the reply. My phone was completely stock, so I take it I was s-on? I'll do more reading on this s-on/s-off stuff before proceeding. Thanks again.
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S-on/s-off has no bearing on this. Locked/unlocked bootloader does. If your phone was completely stock, then your bootloader is already locked, so you can boot to bootloader (hold vol- and power together), select Fastboot, plug your phone into your PC, and run the stock RUU.
Here are the RUUs (thanks football) http://www.filefactory.com/f/002b74e0f4775869/
I have same problem
homeslice976 said:
s-on/s-off has no bearing on this. Locked/unlocked bootloader does. If your phone was completely stock, then your bootloader is already locked, so you can boot to bootloader (hold vol- and power together), select fastboot, plug your phone into your pc, and run the stock ruu.
Here are the ruus (thanks football) (new user)
hey man, i downloaded the ruu becuase i have the same problem, i used hassons all in one toolkit to try to root my phone (kinda new to dis) but it stuck on the htc screen on startup... Oh and the bootloader is unlocked. Wat do i do with the ruu file??
Thanks
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jmiah1 said:
homeslice976 said:
s-on/s-off has no bearing on this. Locked/unlocked bootloader does. If your phone was completely stock, then your bootloader is already locked, so you can boot to bootloader (hold vol- and power together), select fastboot, plug your phone into your pc, and run the stock ruu.
Here are the ruus (thanks football) (new user)
hey man, i downloaded the ruu becuase i have the same problem, i used hassons all in one toolkit to try to root my phone (kinda new to dis) but it stuck on the htc screen on startup... Oh and the bootloader is unlocked. Wat do i do with the ruu file??
Thanks
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Relock your bootloader, boot to Bootloader, select fastboot, plug your phone into your computer, run the RUU and follow the instructions on your computer
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jmiah1 said:
Relock your bootloader, boot to Bootloader, select fastboot, plug your phone into your computer, run the RUU and follow the instructions on your computer
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thanks ima try it tomorrow because my computer wont install htc drivers or htc sync for some reason
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hey guys i just flashed and engineered hboot to my mobile through fastboot and after rebooting the screen get like and old t.v like grey and green and pink dots.
nothing works here.. only fastboot mode [without screen] !!
please any help?
my mobile software number is: 1.36.599.1
CID: HTC__332
first I tried to install another firmware but nothing happend untill i installed the eng-hboot !
please help me.. I want my mobile back!
Ask matt he's really great helped me when I soft bricked
Dude... read the thread. That is normal
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which thread?? what do you mean by this?
Flash back your original hboot, or the ge one if you didn't back up
I hate to say if you don't know how to change back then you don't need to mess with the eng hboot, it's only for developmental purposes.
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please provide some details.. how do i flash the stock hboot?? its only booting into fastboot mode and when i type fastboot oem rebootRUU to flash the hboot it goes to a black screen (no htc logo) and no fastboot says waiting for devices
See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316726
In Post 2 you will see downloads for stock hboot. The ENG hboot might not display the HTC logo in RUU mode. Just follow normal process and try to flash the stock hboot back.
Try fastboot reboot recovery
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Ok, I'm obviously new here, so I'm hoping someone might be kind enough to help. I have a T-Mobile HTC One M7 that seems to be stuck in a boot loop and shows a pixelated/distorted line of pixels right under the "htc" logo at boot. The bootloader is unlocked and I have TWRP recovery 2.8.4 installed - I can flash any recovery and send ROMs via adb no problem, but when the phone goes to reboot to complete the ROM set up is when the problem occurs. What's strange is I was running Android Revolution HD 91.1 just fine before this happened - it first happened after I tried to install AdAway. As it is now, I can boot into bootloader or recovery and can navigate just fine, but if I try to simply start up the phone as normal it goes into the bootloop and shows the distorted line of pixels at the htc boot screen. I've tried wiping everything, tried TWRP recovery 2.8.5, tried a couple different ROMs, and the results are the same. Really hoping someone might be able to help. Some information from the bootloader that might help:
S-ON
HBOOT-1.57.0000
OS-6.10.531.10
Also I'm using a Mac (but also have an HP Stream 7 Windows 8.1 tablet if that might help?) Please help!!
fredleysir said:
Ok, I'm obviously new here, so I'm hoping someone might be kind enough to help. I have a T-Mobile HTC One M7 that seems to be stuck in a boot loop and shows a pixelated/distorted line of pixels right under the "htc" logo at boot. The bootloader is unlocked and I have TWRP recovery 2.8.4 installed - I can flash any recovery and send ROMs via adb no problem, but when the phone goes to reboot to complete the ROM set up is when the problem occurs. What's strange is I was running Android Revolution HD 91.1 just fine before this happened - it first happened after I tried to install AdAway. As it is now, I can boot into bootloader or recovery and can navigate just fine, but if I try to simply start up the phone as normal it goes into the bootloop and shows the distorted line of pixels at the htc boot screen. I've tried wiping everything, tried TWRP recovery 2.8.5, tried a couple different ROMs, and the results are the same. Really hoping someone might be able to help. Some information from the bootloader that might help:
S-ON
HBOOT-1.57.0000
OS-6.10.531.10
Also I'm using a Mac (but also have an HP Stream 7 Windows 8.1 tablet if that might help?) Please help!!
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Theirs a t-mobile RUU but you need a windows PC to flash it
http://www.htc.com/us/support/news.aspx?p_id=630&p_name=htc-one-t-mobile
clsA said:
Theirs a t-mobile RUU but you need a windows PC to flash it
Thanks for the response - So I just flash the RUU from TWRP? Or how do I flash it? Sorry, not very knowledgeable about all this.
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clsA said:
Theirs a t-mobile RUU but you need a windows PC to flash it
Thanks for the response - So I just flash the RUU from TWRP? Or how do I flash it? Sorry, not very knowledgeable about all this.
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it's a windows EXE file
you plug the phone into the PC and run the RUU.exe
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clsA said:
fredleysir said:
it's a windows EXE file
you plug the phone into the PC and run the RUU.exe
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Do I need to be S-OFF or anything?
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Ok, well I ran the RUU program from a Windows machine and it just fails. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated - I'm wondering what the line of distorted pixels as shown in the picture might mean?
qw
fredleysir said:
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and just throw this phone in the garbage where it belongs and go back to the iPhone because I like things that actually, you know, function. Thanks for the amazing support XDA!
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did you lock the bootloader before flashing the RUU ?
fastboot oem lock
clsA said:
did you lock the bootloader before flashing the RUU ?
fastboot oem lock
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Tried it one last time before tossing the phone for good - failed again, then tried again and it worked! (Again I was using an HP Stream 7 tablet with a USB hub for everything, could have been part of the problem) Thank you so much for your help - gotta admit, this custom ROM stuff might not be for me. Thanks again.