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Please help, possible brick after following guide to flash firmware

I was following Vomer's guide on my One, which has been working great. I had HBOOT 1.54, S-Off, SuperCID, and pushed the firmware twice, got the success message, and waited and when it says finished used adb to tell it to reboot. Now I get the splash, with the lock gone, as expected, and then the screen goes black. If I hold power, or power and down, the hardware keys start blinking and then nothing. A few seconds later I get the splash again, then blank again.
It appears to be communicating briefly over USB because my laptop starts trying to install a HTC MTP device (drive is already on the PC and has been fine) before it looses comms and drops out. I can't seem to get adb device to recognize it....
PLEASE tell me someone can help me recover my phone!!! I will be immensely grateful.

And what the HBOOT version you wanted to downgrade to?

Ivanovic said:
And what the HBOOT version you wanted to downgrade to?
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I wasn't trying to downgrade HBOOT, just rather ensure my firmware was up to date. I'd had mine set up as a GPE and was flashing the DE (after supercid).
By way of an update, I've been able to get into bootloader and I'm a bit scared on what to do next so I dont screw this up. I notice that I still have S-OFF, but HBOOT is now showing 1.56 and it says RELOCKED at the top. My plan was to use rumrunner (just because of the HBOOT, but it is erroring anyway) to unlock bootloader, and then to look up the fastboot commands to push a ROM and recovery. Any advice?

Downgrade to 1.44 and change cid according to the Rom you want. Then unlock or set your bootloader to LOCKED
Here is the file for 1.44 http://www69.zippyshare.com/v/95229262/file.html
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Can you help me with the adb commands to flash that boot zip? Also, should I run " fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin" to unlock my bootloader first?

vettejock99 said:
Can you help me with the adb commands to flash that boot zip? Also, should I run " fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin" to unlock my bootloader first?
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You can unlock if you want to flash custom recovery.
Place the file i gave you to the fastboot folder. Boot into bootloader and choose FASTBOOT.
Run the following : fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip filename.zip *where filaname the actual filename of the file i gave you
You will get FAILED or sth so do this command again to succesfully flash the firmware.

Ivanovic said:
You can unlock if you want to flash custom recovery.
Place the file i gave you to the fastboot folder. Boot into bootloader and choose FASTBOOT.
Run the following : fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip filename.zip *where filaname the actual filename of the file i gave you
You will get FAILED or sth so do this command again to succesfully flash the firmware.
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Awesome. So I've got HBOOT 1.44, S-OFF, bootloader unlocked, supercid, and TWRP 2.6.3.3 flashed again, and I tried sideloading ARHD rom. It all looked good but same thing for the moment, I get the splash and then black......I can't figure out why I can't boot into a rom right now. About to try flashing ROM again.
Okay, so didnt' work. After sideload flashing gets to 100% it just does nothing. Manually rebooting gets me back into the splash then blackness bootloop......

Can you issue fastboot clear cache in bootloader and see the outcome?
Also as you are Soff, you can run dev ruu

SaHiLzZ said:
Can you issue fastboot clear cache in bootloader and see the outcome?
Also as you are Soff, you can run dev ruu
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The former didn't get me anywhere, but I did follow your thinking and decided to use the RUU and start over. I'm happy to report that got me going, and then I was able to get AR HD on. I probably had to do that all along once I wiped the ROM and recovery, as sideloading clearly wasn't going to work (in retrospect) as it has an AROMA installer.
Thanks so much everyone!!

SaHiLzZ said:
Can you issue fastboot clear cache in bootloader and see the outcome?
Also as you are Soff, you can run dev ruu
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Nice that everything is solved now.
Verstuurd van mijn HTC One

[Q] Trouble with [OS - 1.10.605.2]

Having trouble with this OS because I want to update to (Sense 5.5) (4.4.2) but I'm stuck on (Sense 5.0) (4.2.2). Just becoming extremely frustrated and cannot find a firmware update to move my OS up to 1.10.605.10 or even 1.10.605.8.
I am on Verizon and have HBOOT - 1.54, Superuser, S-OFF, and Bootloader Unlocked. Right now after what I have been reading today it seems as if I am stuck with this OS and wont be able to receive the OTA updates to get a better ROM.
Although one good thing that happened is I just got my recovery working today thanks to "philz_touch_6.19.3-m7vzw"
So if anybody and I mean anybody has any suggestions on how I can do this or even point me in the direction of the best ROM for my requirements it would be greatly appreciated.
I do not remember rooting being this difficult with my Thunderbolt.
Best regards,

xxshererxx said:
Having trouble with this OS because I want to update to (Sense 5.5) (4.4.2) but I'm stuck on (Sense 5.0) (4.2.2). Just becoming extremely frustrated and cannot find a firmware update to move my OS up to 1.10.605.10 or even 1.10.605.8.
I am on Verizon and have HBOOT - 1.54, Superuser, S-OFF, and Bootloader Unlocked. Right now after what I have been reading today it seems as if I am stuck with this OS and wont be able to receive the OTA updates to get a better ROM.
Although one good thing that happened is I just got my recovery working today thanks to "philz_touch_6.19.3-m7vzw"
So if anybody and I mean anybody has any suggestions on how I can do this or even point me in the direction of the best ROM for my requirements it would be greatly appreciated.
I do not remember rooting being this difficult with my Thunderbolt.
Best regards,
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does the phone even see any updates available ?

clsA said:
does the phone even see any updates available ?
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No it does not...

xxshererxx said:
No it does not...
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this RUU will get you to .10
http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu-zip-m7_wl_jb_50_vzw_1-10-605-10_decrypted-zip/
Instructions for Flashing RUU Zip Files:
Download the RUU.zip file and place in your ADB/fastboot folder. I would recommend renaming the zip file to something simple like ruu.zip.
Boot your phone into the bootloader by holding the power and vol up/down buttons at the same time until you see the bootloader screen or if you have your phone booted you can use the ADB command:
adb reboot-bootloader
Now use these fastboot commands:
fastboot oem rebootRUU
Should see the Silver HTC logo. Now issue this command to flash your phone using the ruu.zip file:
fastboot flash zip ruu.zip
Now the first time you issue a command to flash firmware/ruu in fastboot it only prepares the flash. You have to issue the exact command again:
fastboot flash zip ruu.zip
The green status bar usually does not reach the 100% mark. When the output in the command window is complete, you can reboot:
fastboot reboot
**Notes about the RUU.zip method. You still need to have the proper CID for the RUU. You can run the RUU.zip with super CID, but you will have to lock your bootloader first. If you are running the RUU.zip as base to downgrade all your firmware because you are going to then going to restore a stock Nandroid so the RUU might not be made for your MID, so you may need to edit the android-info.txt inside the ruu.zip to include your MID or CID.

clsA said:
this RUU will get you to .10
Instructions for Flashing RUU Zip Files:
Download the RUU.zip file and place in your ADB/fastboot folder. I would recommend renaming the zip file to something simple like ruu.zip.
Boot your phone into the bootloader by holding the power and vol up/down buttons at the same time until you see the bootloader screen or if you have your phone booted you can use the ADB command:
adb reboot-bootloader
Now use these fastboot commands:
fastboot oem rebootRUU
Should see the Silver HTC logo. Now issue this command to flash your phone using the ruu.zip file:
fastboot flash zip ruu.zip
Now the first time you issue a command to flash firmware/ruu in fastboot it only prepares the flash. You have to issue the exact command again:
fastboot flash zip ruu.zip
The green status bar usually does not reach the 100% mark. When the output in the command window is complete, you can reboot:
fastboot reboot
**Notes about the RUU.zip method. You still need to have the proper CID for the RUU. You can run the RUU.zip with super CID, but you will have to lock your bootloader first. If you are running the RUU.zip as base to downgrade all your firmware because you are going to then going to restore a stock Nandroid so the RUU might not be made for your MID, so you may need to edit the android-info.txt inside the ruu.zip to include your MID or CID.
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Just curious so after I flash this RUU, what is my next step? To download a custom ROM suitable for 4.4.2?

xxshererxx said:
Just curious so after I flash this RUU, what is my next step? To download a custom ROM suitable for 4.4.2?
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no... hopefully get the OTA update

clsA said:
no... hopefully get the OTA update
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Ok, so lets say it all works and I install the OTA update. Then what?

Also I'm "SuperCID 11111111" probably should have mentioned this earlier.
Everything worked and had no issues, but now I'm confused on what to do next.
I don't want to install the newest OTA update because it seems that people are having issues with it.

xxshererxx said:
Also I'm "SuperCID 11111111" probably should have mentioned this earlier.
Everything worked and had no issues, but now I'm confused on what to do next.
I don't want to install the newest OTA update because it seems that people are having issues with it.
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Then just flash back to your custom recovery and root the phone
flash this from recovery >> http://download.chainfire.eu/382/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.93.zip
Also if you choose to flash roms please stay in the Verizon forums.. most of the Roms you find in this area are not for your phone

clsA said:
Then just flash back to your custom recovery and root the phone
flash this from recovery >> http://download.chainfire.eu/382/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.93.zip
Also if you choose to flash roms please stay in the Verizon forums.. most of the Roms you find in this area are not for your phone
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Alright so after tinkering around all day I have, HBoot-1.56, with KitKat 4.4.2, and OS- 3.11.605.1.
I have the bootloader unlocked thanks to SuperCID
Also S-OFF
I just cant find a way to root it or which recovery to flash on it.
Any suggestions?

xxshererxx said:
Alright so after tinkering around all day I have, HBoot-1.56, with KitKat 4.4.2, and OS- 3.11.605.1.
I have the bootloader unlocked thanks to SuperCID
Also S-OFF
I just cant find a way to root it or which recovery to flash on it.
Any suggestions?
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Are you still stuck ? OS- 3.11.605.1 is not android 4.4.2 it's 4.3
what happened to the recovery you used in the first post ?
openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-m7vzw.img
http://flyhalf205.com/getdownload.php?file=recoveries/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-m7vzw.img

Yeah I was a little to tired to realize what I was talking about last night.
I was going back and forth between studying java, ascii, and unix for my exam earlier today and trying to get my phone squared away.
Now I'm curious about updating my baseband unless it really won't make much of a difference.
But this is where I ended up at.
Sent from my HTC6500LVW using xda app-developers app

[Q] HTC One unrooting stuck on bootloader

Hi Everyone
While trying to unroot my one i eventually got stuck on my bootloader. What happened was that I typed in "fastboot oem lock" in adb and now I can't go into recovery or reboot. I know I should install a RUU at this point but I can't find an RUU for my phone! When I get "fastboot getvar all" I see that my "version-main" is 3.23.666.1 (is that the right one to look at?) and so I've scoured for hours for an RUU but only found OTAs which I don't know how to use. If it helps I'm on HBOOT 1.55.
I also remember pressing unroot in OTA unroot (I don't remember the exact app name) and tried pressing restore root but it did nothing so I started doing the above stuff with RUUs.
I'm pretty stumped right now and I would appreciate any help at all, thank you!

KoalaSuccess said:
Hi Everyone
While trying to unroot my one i eventually got stuck on my bootloader. What happened was that I typed in "fastboot oem lock" in adb and now I can't go into recovery or reboot. I know I should install a RUU at this point but I can't find an RUU for my phone! When I get "fastboot getvar all" I see that my "version-main" is 3.23.666.1 (is that the right one to look at?) and so I've scoured for hours for an RUU but only found OTAs which I don't know how to use. If it helps I'm on HBOOT 1.55.
I also remember pressing unroot in OTA unroot (I don't remember the exact app name) and tried pressing restore root but it did nothing so I started doing the above stuff with RUUs.
I'm pretty stumped right now and I would appreciate any help at all, thank you!
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If you have an unlocktoken flash it with fastboot flashunlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
If you dont have it, go to htcdev.com and visit unlock bootloader section and follow instructions there.
Once your bootloader is unlocked again, flash twrp recovery and ABD sideload some ROM.
After this you can start all over again whatever it is you were trying to do.
P.S. this will not get you the right RUU package but it will get your phone back to useful condition.
My advice is first you find an RUU for your phone and then do the bootloader manipulations.

7ftnick said:
If you have an unlocktoken flash it with fastboot flashunlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
If you dont have it, go to htcdev.com and visit unlock bootloader section and follow instructions there.
Once your bootloader is unlocked again, flash twrp recovery and ABD sideload some ROM.
After this you can start all over again whatever it is you were trying to do.
P.S. this will not get you the right RUU package but it will get your phone back to useful condition.
My advice is first you find an RUU for your phone and then do the bootloader manipulations.
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Thanks for the reply! I did that and my phone was working fine again. I went to go flash a stock rom that I found and it flashed fine but now the NFC logo flashes in the status bar even though it's not on. Also, my wifi doesn't work! It constantly says turning on wifi.. I'm trying to flash a different stock rom but I can't enter recovery anymore I would be fine except no wifi is a bit of a problem. Thank you for the reply by the way, is there a chance you can help me find an RUU for my phone? I've searched everywhere but there doesn't seem to be one.

KoalaSuccess said:
Thanks for the reply! I did that and my phone was working fine again. I went to go flash a stock rom that I found and it flashed fine but now the NFC logo flashes in the status bar even though it's not on. Also, my wifi doesn't work! It constantly says turning on wifi.. I'm trying to flash a different stock rom but I can't enter recovery anymore I would be fine except no wifi is a bit of a problem. Thank you for the reply by the way, is there a chance you can help me find an RUU for my phone? I've searched everywhere but there doesn't seem to be one.
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There is no RUU for Bell devices. Have you checked my restore to stock for canadian users thread? Post #1 should be ok for you

SaHiLzZ said:
There is no RUU for Bell devices. Have you checked my restore to stock for canadian users thread? Post #1 should be ok for you
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I took a look and I'll try it! Do you know if my device is Bell? I'm not sure how to tell.

SaHiLzZ said:
There is no RUU for Bell devices. Have you checked my restore to stock for canadian users thread? Post #1 should be ok for you
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So I managed to get my phone working again thanks to your guide! but once I went in to get my S-OFF the program got stuck on pouring 2 after I left it for an hour I hard reset my phone and now I can't boot into recovery or main OS, just bootloader. But in bootloader I see at the top that it says my phone is S-OFF but I can't do the remove tampered because I can't use adb because I can't boot into main OS! I've tried flashing different recovery TWRP but it isn't changing anything..
Any help would be greatly appreciated

KoalaSuccess said:
So I managed to get my phone working again thanks to your guide! but once I went in to get my S-OFF the program got stuck on pouring 2 after I left it for an hour I hard reset my phone and now I can't boot into recovery or main OS, just bootloader. But in bootloader I see at the top that it says my phone is S-OFF but I can't do the remove tampered because I can't use adb because I can't boot into main OS! I've tried flashing different recovery TWRP but it isn't changing anything..
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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did you erased cache after flashing the recovery?
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
then try to boot in recovery again.

alray said:
did you erased cache after flashing the recovery?
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
then try to boot in recovery again.
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Yeah I did try to erase cache, no luck. but I managed to fix it by turning my S-OFF back to S-ON by typing fastboot oem writesecureflag 3
after that I flashed twrp again and then i was able to boot up to OS again. Thanks for the help everyone!

KoalaSuccess said:
Yeah I did try to erase cache, no luck. but I managed to fix it by turning my S-OFF back to S-ON by typing fastboot oem writesecureflag 3
after that I flashed twrp again and then i was able to boot up to OS again. Thanks for the help everyone!
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well that is strange, you should have kept s-off and try other things first but well, its to late. At least your phone is working now

[Q] going back to stock - cannot fastboot boot recovery

Trying to return my one back to stock (unlocked, s-off) to send in for purple tint repair.
I tried a few different methods involving the RUUs but never had any luck:
1. The RUU.exe for my specific phone (telus), always crashed when htc_fastboot.exe stopped responding.
2. Since there was no RUU.zip for the Telus version I extracted it out of the exe and tried flashing manually, but again fastboot stops responding.
3. Tried changing the CID to CWS__001 and using the matching RUU.exe, and while fastboot didn't crash it wasn't able to complete either (can't remember the exact error).
So I decided to use the Telus Guru Reset from htc1guru, which worked fine.
Now I need to get rid of the tampered flag and lock bootloader/s-on, but I can't boot a custom recovery with fastboot boot recovery.img.
I need to boot into recovery to either use the guru bootloader reset tool or to temporarily install superuser, so that I can manually remove the tampered flag.
Tried the latest version of both TWRP and CWM Touch, and also tried fastboot erase cache before each.
Every time fastboot succesfully pushes the img to the phone and outputs booting..., OKAY, and finished, but the phone gets stuck at the bootloader and never actually boots to the recovery (have to force power off).
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.

xerockz said:
Trying to return my one back to stock (unlocked, s-off) to send in for purple tint repair.
I tried a few different methods involving the RUUs but never had any luck:
1. The RUU.exe for my specific phone (telus), always crashed when htc_fastboot.exe stopped responding.
2. Since there was no RUU.zip for the Telus version I extracted it out of the exe and tried flashing manually, but again fastboot stops responding.
3. Tried changing the CID to CWS__001 and using the matching RUU.exe, and while fastboot didn't crash it wasn't able to complete either (can't remember the exact error).
So I decided to use the Telus Guru Reset from htc1guru, which worked fine.
Now I need to get rid of the tampered flag and lock bootloader/s-on, but I can't boot a custom recovery with fastboot boot recovery.img.
I need to boot into recovery to either use the guru bootloader reset tool or to temporarily install superuser, so that I can manually remove the tampered flag.
Tried the latest version of both TWRP and CWM Touch, and also tried fastboot erase cache before each.
Every time fastboot succesfully pushes the img to the phone and outputs booting..., OKAY, and finished, but the phone gets stuck at the bootloader and never actually boots to the recovery (have to force power off).
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.
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boot recover has not worked sense hboot 1.44

clsA said:
boot recover has not worked sense hboot 1.44
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I guess that explains the problem as I am on 1.57. Just re-flashed that guru reset, and checked the option to install superuser and busybox this time so now I should be able to fix the tampered flag and lock, without having to worry about booting to a custom recovery.

Okay so I got it locked and tampered removed, however I cannot remove Superuser.apk, the su binary, or busybox now that my bootloader is locked (using adb shell, su, rm -r /system/app/Superuser.apk). Tried factory reseting and the files are still there, not sure how I can get rid of them!
edit: I've found this old post, not sure if it's still relevant, or exactly what it's doing.

xerockz said:
Okay so I got it locked and tampered removed, however I cannot remove Superuser.apk, the su binary, or busybox now that my bootloader is locked (using adb shell, su, rm -r /system/app/Superuser.apk). Tried factory reseting and the files are still there, not sure how I can get rid of them!
edit: I've found this old post, not sure if it's still relevant, or exactly what it's doing.
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Why not just run the Guru Reset again and select stock recovery and no root.

@xerockz try to install SuperSU app from Play Store. Open it and let update the binaries (normal!) and if successfull, you will after reboot get able to unroot for good in the app.
tetakpatalked from N7100

Hey guys, thanks for the suggestions. I ended up getting it all back to stock.
I believe the reason the RUUs weren't working was because I was on hboot 1.57.
I flashed 1.44 and then was unable to get fastboot to recognize the device under windows 8.1 (common driver issue apparently). I couldn't be bothered to try to fix the driver issue so I booted into a live Fedora usb which then let me use fastboot and flash the appropriate ruu.zip.
Now the ruu had hboot 1.55 so I was once again unable to fastboot boot recovery.img.
I ended up flashing TWRP again, trying the guru bootloader reset over and over, (for tampered and lock) wiped cache/dalvik, still wouldn't work.
Finally got it to work after fastboot format cache.
Now I was locked and no tampered flag, but still had TWRP flashed.
Tried pulling the signed_recovery.img out of the RUU zip and flashing it but obviously that doesn't work since I was locked at this point.
So I just flashed the entire RUU again, which fortunately worked even though I was locked.
Now I just had to S-ON, update OTA, and factory reset (through sense settings) and I'm completely back to stock.
14 hours of headache later and I finally got this thing reset.
It's unfortunate the return to stock guides fail to mention the RUUs don't work if you are on a newer hboot, and also that you need/can flash the RUU AFTER fixing tampered/locking.

xerockz said:
It's unfortunate the return to stock guides fail to mention the RUUs don't work if you are on a newer hboot, and also that you need/can flash the RUU AFTER fixing tampered/locking.
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beg to differ [GUIDE] [02-MAR-2014] nkk71's SuperGUIDE to returning 100% back to stock
but glad you got everything sorted out :good: :good:

[Q] Q softbricked help please

hi i have done sum thing terrible to my phone and now i can only asses the boot loader cant get in to OS or recovery,
unable to flash new recovery and after trying to flash stock RUU i am stuck with boot loader relocked have tried to re unlock it but no luck.
s-on with os 7.19.401.2 any ideas on what to do?

Necrolog_92 said:
hi i have done sum thing terrible to my phone and now i can only asses the boot loader cant get in to OS or recovery,
unable to flash new recovery and after trying to flash stock RUU i am stuck with boot loader relocked have tried to re unlock it but no luck.
s-on with os 7.19.401.2 any ideas on what to do?
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What steps did you take that led you to this point? Are you stock recovery at minute or are you custom recovery? Is your phone detected by fastboot (type fastboot devices)
Also I assume to tried HTC.com/dev to unlock using a different unlock token?

stovie_steve said:
What steps did you take that led you to this point? Are you stock recovery at minute or are you custom recovery? Is your phone detected by fastboot (type fastboot devices)
Also I assume to tried HTC.com/dev to unlock using a different unlock token?
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just for future reference, he needs to flash the stock firmware, same one he already has, my suspicions say he has re-locked his bootloader with a custom recovery on there, thats why he cant unlock his bootloader, it requires stock recovery, the only way to get stock recovery on an s-on and re-locked device is to flash stock firmware. :good:

Seanie280672 said:
just for future reference, he needs to flash the stock firmware, same one he already has, my suspicions say he has re-locked his bootloader with a custom recovery on there, thats why he cant unlock his bootloader, it requires stock recovery, the only way to get stock recovery on an s-on and re-locked device is to flash stock firmware. :good:
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Yeah I figured he'd done that, which is why I wondered was he custom recovery

thanks for the reply’s, i have now tried to use a new unlock token but i get the same problem as before, before i relocked the boot loader i flashed what i think was the stock recovery but now i can’t get in to recovery i can use fastboot and it does show up under fastboot devices and when i try to put the unlock token on i get the screen to confirm but when i confirm it boot into recovery and just stays there till the battery drains on i reboot it any more idea’s or advice ?