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[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!

Another HERCIMG question...

So my not so brilliant girlfriend tried to flash a ROM herself and its now in a reboot loop with HTC white screen and a sprint load screen. No backup, computer does not recognize the phone when plugged in, it does charge though. Hboot 1.47 does work and so does CWR 2.5.07....I tried to flash HERCIMG.ZIP but its not finding it in Hboot. I can see the file in recovery though. It is S-On, so I know there may be issues with that as well. I did format the SD card via my computer card reader as well.
I have another phone for her but I really just want to see if I can fix it. Anyone have any longshot ideas?

go here,,,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=759955,, its an s-off tool. install it and you may be able to flash your HERCIMG.img file. Or you can possibly get an RUU thats flashable through HBOOT and then reroot and start from scratch... later man

Im obviously cool with going back to factory at this point. Given cuurent state of the loop, anything do needs to be flashable I think.

I know you can find RUU's here in developement.somewhere that are flashable from hboot and some from recovery which ever you prefere or are able to. Iust sewrch the developement thread, youll fond what your lookinh for. Going bqck to stock and rerooting is my best advice , that will wipe out what ever your"not so bright girlfreind" may have borked....later
Sent from my HERO200 using xda premium

Here is that flashable ruin zip file
http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php/?t=804692
Good luck
Ooops, dang spell correction ... I meant RUU zip file ..... lets hope it does not ruin it for U
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk

Lol "Ruin zip file" thanks for finding that for him...later
Sent from my HERO200 using xda premium

pfunk81 said:
So my not to brilliant girlfriend tried to flash a ROM herself and its now in a reboot loop with HTC white screen and a sprint load screen. No backup, computer does not recognize the phone when plugged in, it does charge though. Hboot 1.47 does work and so does CWR 2.5.07....I tried to flash HERCIMG.ZIP but its not finding it in Hboot. I can see the file in recovery though. It is S-On, so I know there may be issues with that as well. I did format the SD card via my computer card reader as well.
I have another phone for her but I really just want to see if I can fix it. Anyone have any longshot ideas?
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You need to be s-off the flash a HERCIMG file from h-boot, you can ruu though. If toy can get into recovery, just flash a new Rom and gapps. Make sure you format everything in cwm multiple times. I format boot, system, cache and data 3x. Sounds like overkill, but it cleans out the dingleberries.
You think Meth is bad? Try being a flash whore with a Gingerbread habit and a legacy device! It ain't pretty.

Thanks everyone...Will try when I get home...
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The flashable RUU link isn't working...Can someone repost?
Thanks

Sorry, try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8551240
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk

Thanks...Yeah, I've tried that...It isn't finding it in H-BOOT. I've read that some people seem to have issues running it if they are S-On. So I am thinking I should flash to S-off. I currently have the .29 radio so I need I think I need to downgrade to .27, does anyone have a zip for that?

pfunk81 said:
Thanks...Yeah, I've tried that...It isn't finding it in H-BOOT. I've read that some people seem to have issues running it if they are S-On. So I am thinking I should flash to S-off. I currently have the .29 radio so I need I think I need to downgrade to .27, does anyone have a zip for that?
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If you use the HERCIMG that is for S-ON it will downgrade your radio automatically.
私のEVO 3Dから送信される

When I try the hercimg thru hboot it isn't finding it. I see it in recovery, but that obviously doesn't help.

pfunk81 said:
Thanks...Yeah, I've tried that...It isn't finding it in H-BOOT. I've read that some people seem to have issues running it if they are S-On. So I am thinking I should flash to S-off. I currently have the .29 radio so I need I think I need to downgrade to .27, does anyone have a zip for that?
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Have you checked to make sure that you haven't named it HERCIMG.zip.zip? If you put .zip in the name, it will show up twice. If you can get into recovery, I don't see why you want to ruu when you could use something more optimized (like NFX sense roms) or custom CM7, AOSP, etc.
You should be able to ruu without changing the radio. It will change it when you flash the ruu. Use Darchs SPL ENG for S-off and you don't have to change the radio I believe for that one. Regaws is permanent and you need to downgrade I think.

Help a newb and feel special today!

Just got a rooted incredible S, I got told there is a ROM on it but on boot it just shows the HTC splashscreen then the wavering android logo and didnt do anything for 5mins so I took out the battery
Went into... CWM? Power+vol down now im wondering what to do. There is no MicroSD card currently in it.
VIVO PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.13.0000
RADIO-3805.09.03.27_M
eMMC-boot
-insert date-"
Am i not mistaken I need a microsd card to install a ROM?
Where to go from here?

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Just got a rooted incredible S, I got told there is a ROM on it but on boot it just shows the HTC splashscreen then the wavering android logo and didnt do anything for 5mins so I took out the battery
Went into... CWM? Power+vol down now im wondering what to do. There is no MicroSD card currently in it.
VIVO PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.13.0000
RADIO-3805.09.03.27_M
eMMC-boot
-insert date-"
Am i not mistaken I need a microsd card to install a ROM?
Where to go from here?
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Yes you will need to get a microSD card to install and flash a new ROM using CWM.

Actually I'm not sure if it is CWM... Its a white background with 3 droids down the bottom on skateboards
Selecting recovery takes me to 4EXTRecovery v2.1.0 which also tells me the current ROM is Nik_IncredibleS_TriNiTy_Sen and cuts off, how do i boot the rom from there?
Or is the SD card also required here? backup/restore under Nandroid part tells me it cant mount the SD card.

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Actually I'm not sure if it is CWM... Its a white background with 3 droids down the bottom on skateboards
Selecting recovery takes me to 4EXTRecovery v2.1.0 which also tells me the current ROM is Nik_IncredibleS_TriNiTy_Sen and cuts off, how do i boot the rom from there?
Or is the SD card also required here? backup/restore under Nandroid part tells me it cant mount the SD card.
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You are going to want to get a SDcard in there so you can backup the system and download a new ROM or at least download Nik Trinity ROM so you can reflash it.
In the mean time from the recovery menu you could try a wipe data/system reset to see if you can get it booted.
The good thing is that you have permanent S-Off, so you should be able to get one of the ROMs to load and boot.

Will try that now, should i try:
wipe data/factory reset
format system
format data
Or something else? I presume the first option? Dont wanna screw anything up

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Will try that now, should i try:
wipe data/factory reset
format system
format data
Or something else? I presume the first option? Dont wanna screw anything up
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Yes since you don't have a SD card to flash a ROM, just do the first one.

freedom548 said:
you need reflash the rom.
1.format my SDcard first then copy all zip file to SDcard..
2.use ARHD super wipe
3.flash the rom
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Don't have a readily available SD card atm, will steal the one from my old phone when I can or buy one in the next couple days

tpbklake said:
Yes since you don't have a SD card to flash a ROM, just do the first one.
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Same old, same scenario as before
So when I get the SD card I put the rom files on the SD card then what...?

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Same old, same scenario as before
So when I get the SD card I put the rom files on the SD card then what...?
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You will need to flash/reflash a ROM zip file from recovery. As a previous poster noted, run the ARHD super wipe script first and then flash a ROM.

Gotcha makes sense now, would you recommend the ARHD ROM or something from CM or MIUI? Or is it down to the usual personal preference thing?

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Gotcha makes sense now, would you recommend the ARHD ROM or something from CM or MIUI? Or is it down to the usual personal preference thing?
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Personal preference. On my original HTC ARia I went with CM6 and CM7 because HTC Sense was too slow, but on my IncS it runs Sense 2.1 so well I have just stuck with a rooted version of the WWE stock 2.10.405.1 ROM. To each his own.

tpbklake said:
Personal preference. On my original HTC ARia I went with CM6 and CM7 because HTC Sense was too slow, but on my IncS it runs Sense 2.1 so well I have just stuck with a rooted version of the WWE stock 2.10.405.1 ROM. To each his own.
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Thought so. One last thing, when I flash a ROM using the SD card, it is okay for me to swap them out isnt it? Ill just lose some temp data, maybe some app data and whatever media files I had on it?

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Thought so. One last thing, when I flash a ROM using the SD card, it is okay for me to swap them out isnt it? Ill just lose some temp data, maybe some app data and whatever media files I had on it?
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Yes you can swap them.

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Gotcha makes sense now, would you recommend the ARHD ROM or something from CM or MIUI? Or is it down to the usual personal preference thing?
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Really depends on weather u want a Sense ROM or not. Niks Trinity sensation XL v2 is turning out to be a great sense ROM heavy on the eye candy, although this can also be a bit heavy on the battery consumption. CM or arhd for non sense ROMs. Flash one, try it out, back it up then flash another, try that out, if u like back it up, if not restore the older flash and use that or flash another. With CW recovery the possibilities are endless. Happy flashing....once u get an sd!
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

Thanks for the help tpbklake
Exactly what I was thinking Vader, may as well try out a few before deciding on anything
Any idea when we can expect semi-stable AOSP builds? I have noticed GalnetMIUI have started introducing some of the ICS framework into their builds http://galnetmiui.co.uk/landing/ics-builds/

Anyone want to help guide me through this?
Got the MicroSD and formatted as FAT32, currently downloading ARHD and CM and will use whatever downloads sooner
EDIT: Looks like CM will be done a lot sooner, with the installation process http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Incredible_S:_Full_Update_Guide do i need to put it under a root folder? ARHD doesnt mention a specific folder, only the SD card. Does it really matter?
EDIT2: Installed CM7.1 fine, then ran the super wipe script and couldnt install Galnet's MIUI for some reason. Will try again and also try ARHD

Well flashing roms in the end is easy enough, anyone want to give me a semi-detailed crash course in backing up apps, back up the rom, restoring apps and old roms?

P1n3apqlExpr3ss said:
Well flashing roms in the end is easy enough, anyone want to give me a semi-detailed crash course in backing up apps, back up the rom, restoring apps and old roms?
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In recovery mode you can do a nandroid backup which is a complete backup of the phone at that point in time; ROM, apps, settings etc. Restoring a nandroid backup will return the phone to that point in time.
To backup apps and then restore them when you flash a new ROM, IMO I like My Backup Root. Titanium Backup is another choice.

Awesome, that was all easy enough, just restoring apps and their permissions one by one is a pain in the ass
That galnet ICS ROM and a ICS theme is really nice

this is the first time i've heard people trying to flash a rom without a sd card. (where did he put the rom in the first place anyway?)

[Q] Rogers htc one unrooting?

Hi there,
I've rooted my rogers htc one, and have clockworksmod recovery on there, but I'm an idiot and never saved nandroid backup of the stock rom, I'm stressing out as its gotta go back in for warranty purposes and I've looked for 5 days high and low on this site on how to unroot the device back to stock again. I've downloaded the cwm backup of the rogers001 backup but my recovery wont pick it up? Any help would be appreciated, tks kenny

skyjor2012 said:
Hi there,
I've rooted my rogers htc one, and have clockworksmod recovery on there, but I'm an idiot and never saved nandroid backup of the stock rom, I'm stressing out as its gotta go back in for warranty purposes and I've looked for 5 days high and low on this site on how to unroot the device back to stock again. I've downloaded the cwm backup of the rogers001 backup but my recovery wont pick it up? Any help would be appreciated, tks kenny
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in superuser app there is an option where you can unroot your device..

I'll try that app when I get home. I downloaded whampahoofus cwm nandroid backup, tried adding it to clockworkmod/backup but clockworkmod recovery doesn't pick it up! Also in recovery I see 4 backups. Non of themselves the stick but How come I don't see them on my sd card?

skyjor2012 said:
I'll try that app when I get home. I downloaded whampahoofus cwm nandroid backup, tried adding it to clockworkmod/backup but clockworkmod recovery doesn't pick it up! Also in recovery I see 4 backups. Non of themselves the stick but How come I don't see them on my sd card?
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they're not there anymore, now they are in mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup
to remove root, use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu&hl=de
cheers

Thanks, I'll try it after work, appreciate your help, so have you used that app to indoor before. Is there anything special I need, I'm on Roger Cid rogers001 and it seems as if it's given everyone the hardest time unrooting, an Ruu for rogers001 would be fantastic! So do l my tonight rooted to gain access to the backup folder? So that path you gave me, is that where my backup from the PC be transfer. Sorry for all the question!

skyjor2012 said:
Thanks, I'll try it after work, appreciate your help, so have you used that app to indoor before. Is there anything special I need, I'm on Roger Cid rogers001 and it seems as if it's given everyone the hardest time unrooting, an Ruu for rogers001 would be fantastic! So do l my tonight rooted to gain access to the backup folder? So that path you gave me, is that where my backup from the PC be transfer. Sorry for all the question!
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in the supersu app you have the option to completely unroot. it should work..
yes, to access this folder you need a root explorer and a rooted device. then you can copy/move the backups with the root explorer on the device to the sdcard. after this you can find the backups on the PC.
cheers :highfive:

ok update, got home and installed supersu app, and it said to update su binary and I tried that but it didn't allow me to. Then I read I should install supersu.zip from recover, and I did, now I cant run supersu at all there's no binary installed. Also tried es file explorer, and root broswer, and went to mnt/shell and then its blank, there's no clockworkmod/backup. I dont think I have root access, and I tried to turn it on in settings but it wont allow me to. I think my phones rooted but I dont have root access of the rom, is that correct in saying, thanks

Managed to get back to stock rom, but need to find a stock recovery, then I should be able to apply the update thats available and it should be all back to stock, hopefully, wow I've been learning lots about android lately, lol

skyjor2012 said:
Managed to get back to stock rom, but need to find a stock recovery, then I should be able to apply the update thats available and it should be all back to stock, hopefully, wow I've been learning lots about android lately, lol
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were you able to find the stock rogers recovery? I'm looking to instal OTA update and need to flash to stock recovery...

Nope never did find it. I'm still looking. I need OTA update as well! I'm getting bad call reception!

I've heard using stock AT&T recovery.img works, since recovery images aren't really specific to the different carriers. Maybe try that out? Has anyone else ever tried that that can have some input?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358928
This thread has some more information about it.

[Q] Stuck, in many ways

Hi,
I have the non-Taiwan Butterfly S. I unlocked it via HTC Dev, and installed Clockwork Recovery.
This week, the 4.2 update was released for Singapore. It seems to have been in two parts, one which was a minor upgrade (235MB), and after that was applied, I got the option of the larger, 4.3, 700MB, OTA.
Applying the OTA seems to have left me, at boot time, with a blank screen (there is some backlight visible, after the HTC splash). I read tonight that OTA should not be used with custom recoveries, so I have (using fastboot) been able to flash the stock recovery.
I can now go into Fastboot, HBoot, and even Recovery. But I think I may no longer have an actual "system".
How can I flash either a custom ROM, or investigate the situation?
And also, after I see the Recovery screen (the battery icon), what can I do there?
Thanks,

ghane0 said:
Hi,
I have the non-Taiwan Butterfly S. I unlocked it via HTC Dev, and installed Clockwork Recovery.
This week, the 4.2 update was released for Singapore. It seems to have been in two parts, one which was a minor upgrade (235MB), and after that was applied, I got the option of the larger, 4.3, 700MB, OTA.
Applying the OTA seems to have left me, at boot time, with a blank screen (there is some backlight visible, after the HTC splash). I read tonight that OTA should not be used with custom recoveries, so I have (using fastboot) been able to flash the stock recovery.
I can now go into Fastboot, HBoot, and even Recovery. But I think I may no longer have an actual "system".
How can I flash either a custom ROM, or investigate the situation?
And also, after I see the Recovery screen (the battery icon), what can I do there?
Thanks,
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What I would do is get TWRP Recovery (Just a matter of personal preference you can get clockwormod too) do a full wipe, clear the cache, dalvik cache and install a custom ROM hope I helped somehow

Do you still have the OTA zipfile on your device? It should be possible to force the stock recovery to install it, I just don't know how exactly. If you manage to achieve that, it should fix any corrupted files or inconsistent state, unless something went completely wrong.
Also, did the CWM recovery actually succeed to install the smaller OTA? I find that somewhat weird, but then again, I haven't tried to install OTAs using CWM, only TWRP and that did fail early.
If it was a 901S, I'd suggest installing the stock ROM from scratch, but since your phone is 901E (as far as I understand) and my stock ZIPs are for 901S, that's not guaranteed to work. Still, you might try to do that, but make sure to make a backup of the current state first, just in case it only gets worse. If it does work, it's probably going to be the easiest way out.
Another option would be to get someone else with the 901E to post a backup of their /system, I could turn that into a ZIP, which would solve your problem.

koniiiik said:
Do you still have the OTA zipfile on your device? It should be possible to force the stock recovery to install it, I just don't know how exactly. If you manage to achieve that, it should fix any corrupted files or inconsistent state, unless something went completely wrong.
Also, did the CWM recovery actually succeed to install the smaller OTA? I find that somewhat weird, but then again, I haven't tried to install OTAs using CWM, only TWRP and that did fail early.
If it was a 901S, I'd suggest installing the stock ROM from scratch, but since your phone is 901E (as far as I understand) and my stock ZIPs are for 901S, that's not guaranteed to work. Still, you might try to do that, but make sure to make a backup of the current state first, just in case it only gets worse. If it does work, it's probably going to be the easiest way out.
Another option would be to get someone else with the 901E to post a backup of their /system, I could turn that into a ZIP, which would solve your problem.
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It is a 901s he said non Taiwan
Sent from my HTC Butterfly s using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

seyidaga said:
What I would do is get TWRP Recovery (Just a matter of personal preference you can get clockwormod too) do a full wipe, clear the cache, dalvik cache and install a custom ROM hope I helped somehow
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I have downloaded the Maximus ROM. I am open to doing this, but I cannot figure out how to use the stock recovery (there seem to be no controls).

koniiiik said:
Do you still have the OTA zipfile on your device? It should be possible to force the stock recovery to install it, I just don't know how exactly. If you manage to achieve that, it should fix any corrupted files or inconsistent state, unless something went completely wrong.
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I think so, too, but at this stage, I am willing to go clean-slate and restart with a stock, factory, look.
koniiiik said:
If it was a 901S, I'd suggest installing the stock ROM from scratch
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I have downloaded the stock zip from your website. How do i flash that in stock recovery?
I have access to fastboot from my laptop, I can see the device.
Thanks,

daorderdillon said:
It is a 901s he said non Taiwan
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Oh, okay, I think I'm getting lost in which area has which version of the phone. Never mind then and thanks for the correction.
ghane0 said:
I think so, too, but at this stage, I am willing to go clean-slate and restart with a stock, factory, look.
I have downloaded the stock zip from your website. How do i flash that in stock recovery?
I have access to fastboot from my laptop, I can see the device.
Thanks,
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Well, to install custom ROMs, you'll have to use either TWRP or CWM, I don't know about a way to do that using stock recovery.

Ok, I did this:
Installed CWM Recovery
Flashed the Stock zip from koniiiik's archive
Rebooted successfully. Lots and lots of force closes, Everything from android.core to ...
Used Rom Manager to restore a backup made a month ago
Rebooted. All OK now
Flashed Stock Recovery (again, thanks koniiiik)
Booted. Checked OTA. Got a small update (1.x)
Applied. Rebooted, Checked OTA again
Got the 4.3 package. Applied.
All is well
Between Step #3 and #4, I got my entire backlog of SMS delivered, which I lost in the next step. But that is a small price to pay.
Thanks to all of you helped,

ghane0 said:
Used Rom Manager to restore a backup made a month ago
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Would you mind uploading somewhere the /system part of that backup? I'd be interested in comparing it to the builds I have at hand.

Backup of /system, nearly stock
I say nearly stock, because it was taken after HTC Unlock, Clockwork Recovery was installed, and root flashed
koniiiik said:
Would you mind uploading somewhere the /system part of that backup? I'd be interested in comparing it to the builds I have at hand.
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I have three files in the directory:
system.ext4.tar (0B)
system.ext4.tar.a (954MB)
system.ext4.tar.b (500MB)
Is the split to avoid files greater than 1GB?
Will upload starting a few hours. Dropbox will do?

ghane0 said:
I say nearly stock, because it was taken after HTC Unlock, Clockwork Recovery was installed, and root flashed
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Don't worry about that, of these three, only root affects /system and it should be not too difficult to revert.
ghane0 said:
Is the split to avoid files greater than 1GB?
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Most likely – FAT filesystems, depending on inode size and other factors, only support file sizes up to a certain limit. Sometimes it's 2 GB, sometimes 4 GB, sometimes probably as little as 1 GB.
ghane0 said:
Will upload starting a few hours. Dropbox will do?
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That would be most helpful. Thanks.

Dropbox is back up, I have sent you a link.
Thanks