I have an HTC Vivid that I had successfully installed a couple of different ROMs on in the past. Yesterday I attempted to install VJRaider ROM, it got stuck at HTC screen on initial start up. I allowed it to run for almost 30 minutes and checked what was happening with "adb logcat", I kept seeing something about an audio failure. I decided I would give up on this ROM and try Virtuous Inquisition ROM, but encountered the same issue and even allowed start up to run for nearly one hour. After these issues I thought I would go back completely stock using the RUU from HTC. I ran it and it produced an error because I had forgotten to relock my bootloader. Using the Vivid All In One Kit v2.2 by Hanson2000 I selected relock bootloader but it said cannot find the device. I then used command line to relock the bootloader but it said it could not lock bootloader (something like that). At this point I thought I would just restore my backup and attempt to boot into recovery. The phone shows:
*** RELOCKED ***
*** Security Warning ***
Obviously the All In One Kit or my command line efforts to relock the bootloader had worked.
This brings me to where I am stuck at now. When I select "BOOTLOADER" "RECOVERY" the phone just reboots back into FASTBOOT. I think no big deal, I can plug it into my computer, do some investigating and research, and figure this out. The phone will not recognize it is plugged into the computer and show HBOOT USB (or maybe it is FASTBOOT USB I can't remember what I should see) nor will my computer recognize the phone has been plugged in.
All of the posts I have read mention similar problems but the users have been able to get to recovery or flash the RUU to return to stock. Any help that can be provided would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried any other cables or Ports on your computer? I recommend on desktop trying a port on back directly on the motherboard. Maybe even try a different computer? Also check to make sure some lint or something didn't get stuck in the USB port preventing a connection
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium
Tried on laptop running Linux and "FASTBOOT USB" appeared. Yay. Thanks for the suggestion, I even thought about doing that but talked myself out of it because I was using the same computer, same port, and same cable the whole time. Now to do my homework on how to fix my phone since selecting recovery just reboots the phone. Thanks again.
No problem glad i could be of help
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium
Related
Hello,
I am totally new in this forum. I got my HTC Vivid one month ago. Today, I wanted to root it. However, it was off and never back, no LED when plugging via USB.
I unlocked BootLoader according to HTC's instruction.
Update HBoot with PH39IMG.zip
Create recovery Nandroid with VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip
During the process flashing a Kernel in this forum, I type:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
It rebooted and I stuck in a boot loop (HTC logo just appeared again and again)
I did a Return to stock (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836). But I only succeeded in first step (fastboot oem lock).
I stuck in bootloader loop. The phone just response in bootloader forever.
I did recovery from Nandroid. It performed restore but not work.
Neither did with the factory reset.
I tried with another PH39IMG.zip (~35 MBs), it worked. I got my phone back.
After that, I wanted to recover since I can't connect to wifi.
Start recovery in bootloader, the phone was just dead. The PC recognized a connection (HSUSB). I download the driver (Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008
) but no effect.
I think my phone is bricked.
I will appreciate if anyone can help.
cuongcn said:
Hello,
I am totally new in this forum. I got my HTC Vivid one month ago. Today, I wanted to root it. However, it was off and never back, no LED when plugging via USB.
I unlocked BootLoader according to HTC's instruction.
Update HBoot with PH39IMG.zip
Create recovery Nandroid with VIVID_CWM_ROOT_VER2.zip
During the process flashing a Kernel in this forum, I type:
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
It rebooted and I stuck in a boot loop (HTC logo just appeared again and again)
I did a Return to stock (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836). But I only succeeded in first step (fastboot oem lock).
I stuck in bootloader loop. The phone just response in bootloader forever.
I did recovery from Nandroid. It performed restore but not work.
Neither did with the factory reset.
I tried with another PH39IMG.zip (~35 MBs), it worked. I got my phone back.
After that, I wanted to recover since I can't connect to wifi.
Start recovery in bootloader, the phone was just dead. The PC recognized a connection (HSUSB). I download the driver (Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008
) but no effect.
I think my phone is bricked.
I will appreciate if anyone can help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
did u update hboot with an unlocked bootloader...thats no good
are u still can access Hboot?
sometimes, u should flash a kernel with ROM to work on it. if you still running Stock ROM, don;t flash MOD kernel like Holiraider. it will couse boot loop.
if u still able to access HBOTT, no need to worry.
@meatwad0222: I unlocked bootloader and updated hboot. It succeeded in rooting the phone. I got problem when I tried to flash a kernel.
@prahasta: I can't do anything. The phone never turned on again, even if I plugged the charger, the LED was not on. Pressing power button with volume down did not work at all. In general, I can't access to hboot.
Hm... It will be difficult.. hope it wasn't couse by hardware.
Sent from my HTC Raider X710e using xda premium
I had a similar problem..I unlocked bootloader.and flashed a new ROM. I was then stuck in boot loop..it would go all the way to the screen where it says "upgrading android" and would then reboot...the solution I found was to extract the boot image and flash it...then it rebooted normally with new ROM. Hope this helps...
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium
austin4913 said:
I had a similar problem..I unlocked bootloader.and flashed a new ROM. I was then stuck in boot loop..it would go all the way to the screen where it says "upgrading android" and would then reboot...the solution I found was to extract the boot image and flash it...then it rebooted normally with new ROM. Hope this helps...
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if Bootloop, at least u still can access HBoot, but he can't do that.
try to connect it to PC with Full Battery. then check if your PC still detect it. if PC can detect it, try to flash Official RUU.
My laptop does not recognized it. It said that it can't find a driver for that. I searched in xda-forum and I found the driver. Right now, in the device manager of my laptop, it says Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. I tried to flash an office RUU but it stopped at <waiting for device>
Thank for your replies.
good to hear your laptop still detect the phone.
u need to pick right RUU for your device.
used Hanson tools, choose to unlock your bootloader again (hope this work). after unlock bootloader, and u can acces HBOOT, choose fastboot mode then instal CMW/WCXs recovery. once done, try to access CWM. if u can acces CWM recovery, there is no worries anymore, u just need to instal correct ROM and Kernel.
My laptop only detects the phone as a Qualcomm chip, not as a phone. When running Hasooon tool, it stops at <waiting for device>.
Sounds like it's in dload mode.
If your phone is in dload mode then I think that is a soft brick...it is fixable, from what I read on another thread, but is more difficult...but not impossible..I had to download HTC drivers for my laptop...the following 2 sites contain the files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450105
http://www.theandroidsource.com/viv...65-latest-htc-vivid-sync-driver-download.html
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium
I talked to HTC customer service for repairing. After everything was set up, I thought that I lost my warranty since I rooted my phone (in HBoot, it said RE-LOCK"). I will give a try with the "wire trick" in the thread "Juopunutbear S-OFF". Hopefully after wire those holes, I can access to the debug mode and "wake up" my phone. Otherwise, I have to spend $5 more to buy those warranty stickers on eBay and have the phone fixed.
I thought that it would be a jtag, but it was not. I did not succeed. I have to send it to HTC for repair.
I think I know the reason caused my problem. I tried to recover why I was on S-ON. Thus, the firmware will "fight" each other and the hardware will not know what it should do. The result is a software-bricked phone.
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 ?
Bigtjmc said:
Ok when you run the ruu are you selecting fastboot in the hboot screen ? Does it say USB after fastboot when connected ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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...
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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...
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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 ?
Lately my phone has been rebooting itself quite a bit. It seems to be getting progressively worse to the point where if I open any app for more than a minute or two then my phone will reboot. I've tried uninstalling quite a few third party apps but that didn't do the trick. Whenever I try to do a hard reset (whether it's through settings or the HBOOT menu) the phone will shut down and then instead of getting the picture of a phone with the green thing in the middle and a status bar below that indicating the phone is resetting, I get a picture of a phone with a red symbol similar to a hazard sign that will last for about 30 seconds then the phone just boots back up to my home screen. I had put an incorrect custom ROM on this phone about 5-6 months ago but I was able to get the stock Sprint ROM back on the phone and relock the boot loader and the phone functioned fine ever since up until about a week ago when it started rebooting randomly. I have a feeling this may be part of the reason why the factory reset is not working. Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed? Can I do a factory reset by pushing a ROM to the phone through my computer?
If u are s-off then I suggest u download the ruu and run it. If s-off all u have to do is go to hboot and select fast boot and run the program it will reset the phone back to whatever software version it is for the ruu. If your not s-off you will need to get the ruu that matches your firmware. That should fix your troubles if not then you have something faulty with the hardware itself
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Ok I am S-ON and here is what I am trying to do. I downloaded the RUU that matches my phone current software from the link below and placed the file in the platform-tools folder after renaming it. When I run the fastboot oem rebootRUU command in the cmd prompt, my phone just reboots rather than booting to the black screen with the silver HTC logo. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2687690
Also, my bootloader shows that it is relocked
coppertop4646 said:
Ok I am S-ON and here is what I am trying to do. I downloaded the RUU that matches my phone current software from the link below and placed the file in the platform-tools folder after renaming it. When I run the fastboot oem rebootRUU command in the cmd prompt, my phone just reboots rather than booting to the black screen with the silver HTC logo. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2687690
Also, my bootloader shows that it is relocked
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is a firmware flashing that will do nothing for u. Here is a link to the newest RUU I can find http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658910
Sent from my One using Tapatalk
luigi311 said:
That is a firmware flashing that will do nothing for u. Here is a link to the newest RUU I can find http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658910
Sent from my One using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok I tried that RUU yesterday and couldn't seem to get anywhere because I kept getting error 170 (tried updating drivers, installing HTC sync, etc). Tried again today and got error 170 again, so then I went in my bootloader, then fastboot, connected USB cable, fastboot usb. I then ran the RUU and it said it was going to update my phone. The status bar then said "Waiting for bootloader" and my phone just rebooted itself to the home screen and then I got like error 171 or something (another USB error). I'm kind of running out of ideas at this point. I believe something is wrong with my recovery or I have some sort of bug because I attempted to flash a custom recovery today (TWRP) but when I unlocked my bootloader, I restarted the phone and entered my bootloader again but it still said relocked (even though the prompt on my phone came up giving me the warnings asking if I was sure I wanted to unlock the bootloader) so when I run the command fastboot flash recovery twrp.img I get something along the lines of can't read twrp.img or can't open twrp.img (yes I made sure the file is in the same folder that I am running the adb out of). Willing to try any recommendations at this point because my phone is pretty useless as of right now because it restarts every couple minutes. HTC wants $150 to fix it which I told them I'm not willing to pay, rather buy a new phone.
Hi,
This is my first time to create an account and or post on XDA, so I appolagize if my question is somewhere else, or if this is the wrong section...
I have a T-Mobile HTC One M7. I flashed the Google Edition RUU to try it out. I then flashed just the firmware back and was going to restore a TWRP Backup. After I issued the command fastboot flash zip firmware.zip twice, I entered the command fastboot reboot-bootloader. The screen then turned black and won't turn on. The phone seems completely unresponsive. It won't boot to an OS, or Bootloader. No HTC logo on the screen. If I plug the phone in, nothing happens. No charging light or anything. I surrely thought I actually Bricked it, but it appears to be reconized by Windows. If I hold down the power button for so long, the light won't blink, but the computer makes a device disconnected sound shortly followed by a connect sound. I went ahead and connected it to a Linux machine, and the OS sees 6 different partitions / removable media. I am able to browse what appears to be the root, system, recovery...
It is S-OFF via firewater and the firmware I flashed has hboot 1.57.0000. The bootloader is unlocked. The device is not seen by adb nor fastboot.
Does anyone think I have any chance of recoverying it?
Yes it's dead, try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684
[UNBRICK][BETA] HTC Unbricking Project
If not, then JTAG.
That worked. Thank you very much SaHiLzZ.
AndroidBrick said:
That worked. Thank you very much SaHiLzZ.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Excellent
I had rooted my HTC One M7-Sprint a few months ago and installed CyanogenMod 11. Worked great. Now I'm trying to get it back to stock to sell it back cause I have a new phone.
I ran HTC One Gurus Rom "Guru Reset M7 Sprint 1.31.651.2" to return to stock with stock recovery. It did appear to work.
I have bootloader unlocked, and am S-ON.
One of the issues is that the Rom won't match the Firmware since all i could flash was the Rom being S-Off. The idea is that once I do an OTA it will update the Rom and the Firmware and I'll match.
But right now that mismatch between ROM and Firmware has my phone working, boots up into stock Android, but with a non-working screen. I'm told when we OTA it will be working again. the rom was 1.31, and from what I see in running Fastboot Getvar All the Firmware (I think that's version-main?) is 5.05.651.2. So I guess it's Cyanogenmod Firmware? Anyway, no match to the ROM version.
How do I get to the OTA without a working screen? I really don't want to buy any sort of hardware and spend a lot of $$, since I'm only going to get about $35 for the phone when I trade it in! I do have USB Debugging on and ADB working. Is there a way to start an OTA from ADB?
Have you tried just flashing the latest RUU? You may have to flash the full firmware first. That would get the phone up and running with the latest release.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795856
Hung applying OTA HTC One M7 Sprint
What I read from HTCOne Guru said (which is where I got the file I flashed) said you can't flash RUU if you're S-ON.
I found a cheap on the go cable, connected my mouse, and got the OTA downloaded. Then I said yes, install it. It restarted twice, then....nothing. Frozen. White HTC screen, nothing.
So I powered off, powered on, it starts loading, I hear about 3 notes of the HTC music as it's restarting, and ....nothing. Still stuck.
I can boot into Fastboot, but not ADB it seems (I can't get ADB Devices to return the device ID but I can get Fastboot Devices to return the ID.)
I've powered down and restarted, and I've tried to get into recovery (shuts down the phone). I've rebooted from Fastboot screen. Nothing works.
Steve Thomas said:
What I read from HTCOne Guru said (which is where I got the file I flashed) said you can't flash RUU if you're S-ON.
I found a cheap on the go cable, connected my mouse, and got the OTA downloaded. Then I said yes, install it. It restarted twice, then....nothing. Frozen. White HTC screen, nothing.
So I powered off, powered on, it starts loading, I hear about 3 notes of the HTC music as it's restarting, and ....nothing. Still stuck.
I can boot into Fastboot, but not ADB it seems (I can't get ADB Devices to return the device ID but I can get Fastboot Devices to return the ID.)
I've powered down and restarted, and I've tried to get into recovery (shuts down the phone). I've rebooted from Fastboot screen. Nothing works.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All HTC phones come s-on...I don't know where people are getting the info saying you cannot RUU if you are s-on. **Sidenote** You cannot RUU backwards if you are s-on.
The RUU is your best bet to get your device working again.
Remember you need to re-lock your bootloader before running the RUU