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S-ON bootloop, RUU won't work

I have a friend who tried flashing a rom on this HTC One with S-ON. The phone is now relocked and "tampered" but I have been trying to return it to stock so it will actually boot. It just hangs on the HTC screen for now. The version is 1.26.502.12 Hboot 1.44 but the RUU for ATT doesn't work at all; gives me the error 132 "signature error". I know this is the correct RUU, as when it says it will update to xxx version, it's the same exact version as what's on there (1.26.502.12).
Have been searching long and far for an answer, and have tried locating a ruu in the form of a .zip file, but have returned with no such luck.

xartic12 said:
I have a friend who tried flashing a rom on this HTC One with S-ON. The phone is now relocked and "tampered" but I have been trying to return it to stock so it will actually boot. It just hangs on the HTC screen for now. The version is 1.26.502.12 Hboot 1.44 but the RUU for ATT doesn't work at all; gives me the error 132 "signature error". I know this is the correct RUU, as when it says it will update to xxx version, it's the same exact version as what's on there (1.26.502.12).
Have been searching long and far for an answer, and have tried locating a ruu in the form of a .zip file, but have returned with no such luck.
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Its not the correct ruu for the phones cid, which will be CWS__001 or something similar. What's wrong with the phone that you need to ruu? You can either;
Find the correct RUU.
S-off the phone, change the cid, and flash any ruu of your choosing.
Re-unlock, re-flash custom recovery, and re-flash the rom.
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It won't boot because it's relocked with a custom recovery. Unlock again, flash the stock recovery from the RUU, and relock, and you'll be stock.

iElvis said:
It won't boot because it's relocked with a custom recovery. Unlock again, flash the stock recovery from the RUU, and relock, and you'll be stock.
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I have it unlocked and it had TWRP. I pulled the .zip from the RUU from the /local/temp/f3823848f (you get it), and tried running the fastboot commands:
fasboot erase cache
fastboot rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip rom.zip
This works up until the flashing of the zip, which results in "ERROR: could not clear input pipe; result -536870163< waiting for device >".
How would I go about getting the stock recovery from the RUU?
edit: I originally had it unlocked but relocked it so I could run the .exe for the RUU.
CoryTallman said:
Its not the correct ruu for the phones cid, which will be CWS__001 or something similar. What's wrong with the phone that you need to ruu? You can either;
Find the correct RUU.
S-off the phone, change the cid, and flash any ruu of your choosing.
Re-unlock, re-flash custom recovery, and re-flash the rom.
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Well the phone tried to install a custom rom (trick droid) without S-OFF, so now it completely won't boot past the HTC screen. I have problems with mounting the cache, but finally worked that kink out. I can't s-off the phone without it booting can I?

You do not need s-off to flash a rom on the one. He probably flashed a bad zip. Reflash TWRP, wipe everything. Adb push the ROM.zip and flash it.
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---------- Post added at 09:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:12 PM ----------
Also the stock recovery, if you wanna go that route, will be an .IMG file.
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG
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CoryTallman said:
You do not need s-off to flash a rom on the one. He probably flashed a bad zip. Reflash TWRP, wipe everything. Adb push the ROM.zip and flash it.
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---------- Post added at 09:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:12 PM ----------
Also the stock recovery, if you wanna go that route, will be an .IMG file.
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG
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Tried sideloading the RUU .zip rom and it wasn't able to mount cache and told me the .zip was corrupted. Where could I find the stock recovery?
Edit: Got the stock recovery on there now. Trying the RUU again.

xartic12 said:
Tried sideloading the RUU .zip rom and it wasn't able to mount cache and told me the .zip was corrupted. Where could I find the stock recovery?
Edit: Got the stock recovery on there now. Trying the RUU again.
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You can't sideload an ruu zip. Side load is for custom software, not official ruus
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CoryTallman said:
You can't sideload an ruu zip. Side load is for custom software, not official ruus
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I was reading where you could, as it's the stock .zip for your phone (assuming you had the correct one). My problem still is lingering. I have stock recovery installed and it's relocked, still can't manage to get the RUU to correctly read my model.
I posted some pictures, 1 containing the information about the device while the other is the window showing how it matches up.

Xartic, you should first read tutorials on how to flash something. Here on the forum are some. You can also sideload a custom Rom from the forum. Like Viper one
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xartic12 said:
Tried sideloading the RUU .zip rom and it wasn't able to mount cache and told me the .zip was corrupted. Where could I find the stock recovery?
Edit: Got the stock recovery on there now. Trying the RUU again.
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If you can't mount cache partition then the recovery will not work correctly.
I get the same problem few days ago when erasing all partitions.
Try to format cache partition from recovery. I've done it many times until it accept it.
It seems I format it in the wrong format.
If you have "cache mount error" when in recovery, then I don't think flashing a ROM will work (and when it works, the ROM will not boot anyway).
Get rid of this problem first.

Tecardo said:
Xartic, you should first read tutorials on how to flash something. Here on the forum are some. You can also sideload a custom Rom from the forum. Like Viper one
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Actually I did read and know how to flash roms, but the problem isn't that I didn't read, that my friend jumped the gun on flashing without knowing HTC and their s-on situation . The problem is that security still remains on and the phone won't accept the RUU to return it to stock.. I understand the phone is unlocked now but when I attempt the RUU I relock it with no positive results. I resorted to the stock recovery to see if that would help with the RUU, but it doesn't.

truc007 said:
If you can't mount cache partition then the recovery will not work correctly.
I get the same problem few days ago when erasing all partitions.
Try to format cache partition from recovery. I've done it many times until it accept it.
It seems I format it in the wrong format.
If you have "cache mount error" when in recovery, then I don't think flashing a ROM will work (and when it works, the ROM will not boot anyway).
Get rid of this problem first.
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You should use cwm not twrp. that normally works
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Tecardo said:
You should use cwm not twrp. that normally works
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I've noticed cwm has to be used to erase and mount cache. I still can't get anywhere though even being able to boot into any recovery.

Any other ideas on how to fix this problem?

Have you tried;
Unlock
Reflash TWRP or CWM
Redownload custom rom
Wipe everything
"adb push rom.zip /sdcard/"
Allow it to complete
Flash custom rom
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CoryTallman said:
Have you tried;
Unlock
Reflash TWRP or CWM
Redownload custom rom
Wipe everything
"adb push rom.zip /sdcard/"
Allow it to complete
Flash custom rom
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i messed my partitions with touch cwm. I solved the problem from twrp.
but really I don't know how, I played with Parted until I realize i can't find the name of the cache partition. I tried few time until it accept to format the cache. Then that was ok.
I create my problem by erasing all the partitions one by one from cwm (touch version)

CoryTallman said:
Have you tried;
Unlock
Reflash TWRP or CWM
Redownload custom rom
Wipe everything
"adb push rom.zip /sdcard/"
Allow it to complete
Flash custom rom
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I did all of that, and when it reboots it shows the HTC quietly brilliant screen with "This build is for development purposes only..." and will just hang there. I wiped everything before I pushed the Android Revolution Rom.
truc007 said:
i messed my partitions with touch cwm. I solved the problem from twrp.
but really I don't know how, I played with Parted until I realize i can't find the name of the cache partition. I tried few time until it accept to format the cache. Then that was ok.
I create my problem by erasing all the partitions one by one from cwm (touch version)
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Yeah I had to do that to be able to get the right locations mounted. Still am having difficulties though.

xartic12 said:
I did all of that, and when it reboots it shows the HTC quietly brilliant screen with "This build is for development purposes only..." and will just hang there. I wiped everything before I pushed the Android Revolution Rom.
Yeah I had to do that to be able to get the right locations mounted. Still am having difficulties though.
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And when you flashed android revolution there were no errors? The install went as it should? And how long are you letting it sit on that screen before rebooting?
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CoryTallman said:
And when you flashed android revolution there were no errors? The install went as it should? And how long are you letting it sit on that screen before rebooting?
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No errors whatsoever, I let it sit on the screen for about 5 minutes then waited on the HTC screen for about 15-20.
I just now flashed a stock odexed rom and it's doing the same thing, except it doesn't show "This build is for...." at the bottom. I sideloaded it and had no errors.
Also, after I sideload these roms, I have to reflash the recovery each time.

CoryTallman said:
Have you tried;
Unlock
Reflash TWRP or CWM
Redownload custom rom
Wipe everything
"adb push rom.zip /sdcard/"
Allow it to complete
Flash custom rom
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I am having a similar problem right now as I seem to have accidentally deleted my OS at some point
I tried this but the ADB cant find my device but fastboot can.
Any help?

Stock recovery

is there any way of backing up stock recovery on 2.24.206.7 hboot 1.54
i dont want to lose stock recovery as i cant find it anywhere
Thanks

Use this command:
Code:
adb shell
Then
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p34 of=/sdcard/recovery.img

Guich said:
Use this command:
Code:
adb shell
Then
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p34 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
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Thanks for the reply , does my phone need to be rooted for this as im getting
: cannot open for read: permission denied
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uronfire said:
Thanks for the reply , does my phone need to be rooted for this as im getting
: cannot open for read: permission denied
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Yes, you need root, I thinked you had
But, you can do this before flashing a custom recovery so you can backupping your recovery

Guich said:
Yes, you need root, I thinked you had
But, you can do this before flashing a custom recovery so you can backupping your recovery
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Will I be able to get ota if I root my phone
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uronfire said:
Will I be able to get ota if I root my phone
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Wait.
You will backuping the stock recovery for?
Because if you won't root the phone and flash a custom recovery, you never won't lose the stock recovery.
However, yes, you can, but this don't have a lot of sense.
You will lose your warranty for a backup of the stock recovery?
Don't have a lot of sense

Guich said:
Wait.
You will backuping the stock recovery for?
Because if you won't root the phone and flash a custom recovery, you never won't lose the stock recovery.
However, yes, you can, but this don't have a lot of sense.
You will lose your warranty for a backup of the stock recovery?
Don't have a lot of sense
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That's exactly my probem . And I can't do anything before I backup my current full Rom as it's not available on xda.
I'm stuck on stock non rooted phone
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uronfire said:
That's exactly my probem . And I can't do anything before I backup my current full Rom as it's not available on xda.
I'm stuck on stock non rooted phone
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You want root your phone?
If yes you can do this:
1) Unlock your bootloader
2) Backupping the stock recovery as i said
3) Flash a custom recovery
4) Do a backup of the stock rom
5) Do the root or flash a custom rom

Guich said:
You want root your phone?
If yes you can do this:
1) Unlock your bootloader
2) Backupping the stock recovery as i said
3) Flash a custom recovery
4) Do a backup of the stock rom
5) Do the root or flash a custom rom
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2) Backupping the stock recovery as i said
cant do that unless i have root which is step 5

uronfire said:
2) Backupping the stock recovery as i said
cant do that unless i have root which is step 5
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You can do this after the unlock of bootloader as i know

uronfire said:
2) Backupping the stock recovery as i said
cant do that unless i have root which is step 5
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I have unlocked bootloader and I cant do the command as it requires root

You're on 1.54 hboot?
However, try to download a custom recovery and use this command:
Code:
fastboot boot name_of_recovery.img
, you can boot?

Guich said:
You're on 1.54 hboot?
However, try to download a custom recovery and use this command:
Code:
fastboot boot name_of_recovery.img
, you can boot?
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yes
and i have tried the command before it doesnt work.
I dont think i can fully backup my rom , ill have to install custom recovery and backup the rom without stock recovery and then find stock recovery here and i cant find the stock recovery for my rom anywhere:crying:

uronfire said:
yes
and i have tried the command before it doesnt work.
I dont think i can fully backup my rom , ill have to install custom recovery and backup the rom without stock recovery and then find stock recovery here and i cant find the stock recovery for my rom anywhere:crying:
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Will see in future
which hboot you have?

Guich said:
Will see in future
which hboot you have?
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1.54
and thanks for your help

uronfire said:
1.54
and thanks for your help
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So, wait, have you flashed the custom recovery?
If not, don't do this, relock the bootloader and wait for the update...

Guich said:
So, wait, have you flashed the custom recovery?
If not, don't do this, relock the bootloader and wait for the update...
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I havent flashed custom recovery and I am waiting to find a full backup of the rom before i do anything

uronfire said:
I havent flashed custom recovery and I am waiting to find a full backup of the rom before i do anything
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Good, so, relock your bootloader as you can get OTA until you will found the backup

Can't return to stock ?

I tried to return to stock using mike1986 instructions. ie, download stock Rom and put on sd and download stock recovery for fastboot flash.
Problem was, when I tried to fastboot flash the recovery I got a message that "appeared" to be sayin the recovery was to big in size.
Does that make any sense to anyone, if so, can anyone suggest anything ?
Thanks
Edit, I'm s-on
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10rdan said:
I tried to return to stock using mike1986 instructions. ie, download stock Rom and put on sd and download stock recovery for fastboot flash.
Problem was, when I tried to fastboot flash the recovery I
Does that make any sense to anyone, if so, can anyone suggest anything ?
Thanks
Edit, I'm s-on
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I was having problems before had encrypted ruu instead of decrypted,not sure if that helps but fixed my problem to return to stock.make sure you have wright ruu for carrier

10rdan said:
I tried to return to stock using mike1986 instructions. ie, download stock Rom and put on sd and download stock recovery for fastboot flash.
Problem was, when I tried to fastboot flash the recovery I got a message that "appeared" to be sayin the recovery was to big in size.
Does that make any sense to anyone, if so, can anyone suggest anything ?
Thanks
Edit, I'm s-on
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First off, Post a fastboot getvar all ( minus your imei no and serial no ).
Is your bootloader unlocked?
post links to recovery you were trying to flash and how you were trying to flash it?

bored_stupid said:
First off, Post a fastboot getvar all ( minus your imei no and serial no ).
Is your bootloader unlocked?
post links to recovery you were trying to flash and how you were trying to flash it?
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Was trying to flash stock, 4.19.401.11, recovery via fastboot command after flashing stock Rom via twrp. Wouldn't flash, question is why ?
Handset is "found" with "adb device", just wouldn't flash recovery.
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10rdan said:
Was trying to flash stock, 4.19.401.11, recovery via fastboot command after flashing stock Rom via twrp. Wouldn't flash, question is why ?
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Without a fastboot getvar all and a screenshot of your bootloader, and how you tried to flash it, i cant say

bored_stupid said:
Without a fastboot getvar all and a screenshot of your bootloader, and how you tried to flash it, i cant say
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I've gone back to, backed up, ARHD62 so can't give you what you're asking for. Thanks anyway.
Reason I wanted to go back to stock was to get latest firmware when it's released then re unlock bootloader etc and flash ARHD71. NOT s-off.
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10rdan said:
I've gone back to, backed up, ARHD62 so can't give you what you're asking for. Thanks anyway.
Reason I wanted to go back to stock was to get latest firmware when it's released then re unlock bootloader etc and flash ARHD71. NOT s-off.
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BTW, a getvar can be gotten no matter what ROM you are on... it would help identify your device, and if you do want to stay S-On, perhaps find a signed firmware.zip for your phone.

Where did I go wrong?

Okay, so I have an HK m8 on sprint, FW 1.54.654.13.
I was originally on Viper 1.8.0, but wanted to upgrade to 2.0.0, so I went back to my stock backup, with the aforementioned software version.
After restoring that backup I realized I needed to also flash a stock recovery in order to take the OTA. So I flashed the 'Stock Recovery From 1.54.651.8 OTA' over adb from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736048
So, since flashing that recovery my phone seems to not have a recovery anymore; infact, it constantly reboots after about 1 minute of being booted to system. When I boot into recovery, I get a symbol of a phone with an "!" in a triangle over it.
Where did I go wrong? What recovery should I be using? I can re-flash TWRP, but it seems I still get the bootloop, even though it does actually boot into system (which I've never seen happen from a bootloop). It's been like this for 12+ hours, and no amount of searching has helped me out thus far, so I'm hoping someone here could help me out a little.

xLoveHateLegend said:
Okay, so I have an HK m8 on sprint, FW 1.54.654.13.
I was originally on Viper 1.8.0, but wanted to upgrade to 2.0.0, so I went back to my stock backup, with the aforementioned software version.
After restoring that backup I realized I needed to also flash a stock recovery in order to take the OTA. So I flashed the 'Stock Recovery From 1.54.651.8 OTA' over adb from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736048
So, since flashing that recovery my phone seems to not have a recovery anymore; infact, it constantly reboots after about 1 minute of being booted to system. When I boot into recovery, I get a symbol of a phone with an "!" in a triangle over it.
Where did I go wrong? What recovery should I be using? I can re-flash TWRP, but it seems I still get the bootloop, even though it does actually boot into system (which I've never seen happen from a bootloop). It's been like this for 12+ hours, and no amount of searching has helped me out thus far, so I'm hoping someone here could help me out a little.
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When I boot into recovery, I get a symbol of a phone with an "!" in a triangle over it.
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This is stock recovery
You could pull the stock recovery from the HK firmware...hopefully that will get you back to normal.
Worse comes to worse run the RUU.

I do not have the recovery.img in my backup. I'm also not S-off, so I think the only way I can upgrade my firmware is through OTA from what I understand, correct? If I could just flash the proper stock recovery I think I would be fine from there?

xLoveHateLegend said:
I do not have the recovery.img in my backup. I'm also not S-off, so I think the only way I can upgrade my firmware is through OTA from what I understand, correct? If I could just flash the proper stock recovery I think I would be fine from there?
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You can flash the full firmware while being s-on.

Alright, thanks! Can I go ahead and RUU 2.22.401.4 directly, or should I just RUU to my current stock firmware and just OTA from there?
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xLoveHateLegend said:
Alright, thanks! Can I go ahead and RUU 2.22.401.4 directly, or should I just RUU to my current stock firmware and just OTA from there?
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2.22.401.4 is not for Sprint.
I would go with the current HK RUU and start fresh.

BD619 said:
2.22.401.4 is not for Sprint.
I would go with the current HK RUU and start fresh.
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Damn. Alright, well from what I can see 2.16.654.4 is the latest for Sprint. After downloading O.M.J.'s RUU, would I be good to go straight to viper 2.0.0?
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xLoveHateLegend said:
Damn. Alright, well from what I can see 2.16.654.4 is the latest for Sprint. After downloading O.M.J.'s RUU, would I be good to go straight to viper 2.0.0?
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After you install TWRP recovery, yes.

For future reference Viper does OTA's which are not the same as Sprint OTA's...download the Viper OTA and flash in twrp.

Magnum_Enforcer said:
After you install TWRP recovery, yes.
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Yes of course, thank you.
BD619 said:
For future reference Viper does OTA's which are not the same as Sprint OTA's...download the Viper OTA and flash in twrp.
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Yes, I am aware. But on 1.8.0 I did not get an OTA. Maybe because I'll get it after I upgrade my FW. So after RUUing then reinstalling TWRP, if I restore my viper 1.8.0 backup, I can just OTA to 2.0.0?

xLoveHateLegend said:
Yes of course, thank you.
Yes, I am aware. But on 1.8.0 I did not get an OTA. Maybe because I'll get it after I upgrade my FW. So after RUUing then reinstalling TWRP, if I restore my viper 1.8.0 backup, I can just OTA to 2.0.0?
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Should be able to...
But if you are going to RUU why not just download the full rom and clean flash.

BD619 said:
Should be able to...
But if you are going to RUU why not just download the full rom and clean flash.
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I tried flashing the full Rom per your suggestion, but after flashing the 2.0.0 Rom, it's like my phone has no OS and can only boot to bootloader or recovery, not system at all.
I also tried extracting the latest hk ruu to the root of my external SD card and running it through bootloader to no avail.
I feel like I'm missing a vital part of information here. I've never really ruu'd before so I'm new to that but I'm pretty stumped on this whole thing.

xLoveHateLegend said:
I tried flashing the full Rom per your suggestion, but after flashing the 2.0.0 Rom, it's like my phone has no OS and can only boot to bootloader or recovery, not system at all.
I also tried extracting the latest hk ruu to the root of my external SD card and running it through bootloader to no avail.
I feel like I'm missing a vital part of information here. I've never really ruu'd before so I'm new to that but I'm pretty stumped on this whole thing.
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get the drivers for your phone + adb, rename the firmware update to firmware.zip, put it in /sdk/platform-tools
put the phone in fastboot, make sure it says fastboot USB and type fastboot devices in terminal to confirm it's connected.
then type in terminal Fastboot oem rebootRUU (capitalization matters.)
your screen will go black with a greyish HTC logo, then type in fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
once it's done doing it's thing type fastboot reboot
this method is pretty much failproof
EDIT: also, if you're flashing ONLY the sprint 2.0.0 update, you'll have to be on capt's twrp 2.7.0.7, otherwise you'll have to flash the full rom, boot into it, reboot into 2.7.1.0, and dirty flash the sprint viper ROM. Hope that helps, cheers >;3

yorisou said:
get the drivers for your phone + adb, rename the firmware update to firmware.zip, put it in /sdk/platform-tools
put the phone in fastboot, make sure it says fastboot USB and type fastboot devices in terminal to confirm it's connected.
then type in terminal Fastboot oem rebootRUU (capitalization matters.)
your screen will go black with a greyish HTC logo, then type in fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
once it's done doing it's thing type fastboot reboot
this method is pretty much failproof
EDIT: also, if you're flashing ONLY the sprint 2.0.0 update, you'll have to be on capt's twrp 2.7.0.7, otherwise you'll have to flash the full rom, boot into it, reboot into 2.7.1.0, and dirty flash the sprint viper ROM. Hope that helps, cheers >;3
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Thanks for the reply! From my understanding, you need to be S-Off for that method, which I am not.
The method I attempted to use is this one, from O.M.J's thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173
using 7zip, extract 0P6BIMG.zip to ext sd card
-boot into bootloader
-make sure*hboot*is highlighted, press power button
-it will scan your ext_sd card, then ask if you want to start the update
-press volume up & let it do it's thing...
The problem is, it scans my external SD card just fine but never asks if I want to start the update, nor do I get the option to press volume up etc... I am on captains twrp 2.7.0.7, as I've seen many other users confirm success with this recovery.
Also, I don't see just an update, it seems the Sprint version of the Rom I downloaded is the full rom. I actually did get it to boot once and got this (see screenshot), but it was a dirty flash.
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xLoveHateLegend said:
Thanks for the reply! From my understanding, you need to be S-Off for that method, which I am not.
The method I attempted to use is this one, from O.M.J's thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173
using 7zip, extract 0P6BIMG.zip to ext sd card
-boot into bootloader
-make sure*hboot*is highlighted, press power button
-it will scan your ext_sd card, then ask if you want to start the update
-press volume up & let it do it's thing...
The problem is, it scans my external SD card just fine but never asks if I want to start the update, nor do I get the option to press volume up etc... I am on captains twrp 2.7.0.7, as I've seen many other users confirm success with this recovery.
Also, I don't see just an update, it seems the Sprint version of the Rom I downloaded is the full rom. I actually did get it to boot once and got this (see screenshot), but it was a dirty flash.
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Did you re-lock your bootloader?

xLoveHateLegend said:
Thanks for the reply! From my understanding, you need to be S-Off for that method, which I am not.
The method I attempted to use is this one, from O.M.J's thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173
using 7zip, extract 0P6BIMG.zip to ext sd card
-boot into bootloader
-make sure*hboot*is highlighted, press power button
-it will scan your ext_sd card, then ask if you want to start the update
-press volume up & let it do it's thing...
The problem is, it scans my external SD card just fine but never asks if I want to start the update, nor do I get the option to press volume up etc... I am on captains twrp 2.7.0.7, as I've seen many other users confirm success with this recovery.
Also, I don't see just an update, it seems the Sprint version of the Rom I downloaded is the full rom. I actually did get it to boot once and got this (see screenshot), but it was a dirty flash.
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http://venomroms.com/htc-one-m8/
download the full one and the sprint one, flash the first, reboot all the way (doubt you have to finish the automatic setup) then reboot into recovery and dirty flash the sprint one without wiping anything. It'll connect to the CDMA network instead of the GSM one with no problems, you don't even need to be on 2.7.0.7
And if it isn't working in HBOOT just go into recovery and adb sideload it, you shouldn't need to be s-off to do that. Enter adb sideload and just type in a terminal adb sideload (filename)
EDIT: idk why but that picture made me lol irl, KEEP CALM AND KANG AWAY

Alright giving that a shot now, thanks
That message is hilarious to me now, but it wasn't at the time xD
Edit: is it safe to dirty flash the first one, coming from 1.8.0? Also no, I haven't relocked my boot loader.

xLoveHateLegend said:
Alright giving that a shot now, thanks
That message is hilarious to me now, but it wasn't at the time xD
Edit: is it safe to dirty flash the first one, coming from 1.8.0? Also no, I haven't relocked my boot loader.
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RUU won't run unless you re-lock the bootloader since you are s-on

BD619 said:
RUU won't run unless you re-lock the bootloader since you are s-on
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Ahhh, okay makes sense now. My m7 was s-off and that was the first and last time I ever did a RUU. If I re-lock the boot loader, do I have to go through htcdev again to unlock once more, or will having it locked again not effect root?
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xLoveHateLegend said:
Ahhh, okay makes sense now. My m7 was s-off and that was the first and last time I ever did a RUU. If I re-lock the boot loader, do I have to go through htcdev again to unlock once more, or will having it locked again not effect root?
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fastboot oem relock
should do it

stuck on fastboot usb while boot to recovery

Hi guys!
So i unlocked my m7 and though i could flash a twrp custom recovery.
But somehow the phone stuck on fastboot usb when i boot to recovery via cmd command promp...
I got :
C:\xxxxxxxxx\mini-sdk>fastboot boot twrp-3.0.0-2-m7.img
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY
But the phone won t boot to recovery.
The vol up/down doesn t work either so i had to use power button to shut down my phone..
Tried many times but it didn t work.
Somebody knows why is that ?

nARDOs said:
Hi guys!
So i unlocked my m7 and though i could flash a twrp custom recovery.
But somehow the phone stuck on fastboot usb when i boot to recovery via cmd command promp...
I got :
C:\xxxxxxxxx\mini-sdk>fastboot boot twrp-3.0.0-2-m7.img
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... OKAY
But the phone won t boot to recovery.
The vol up/down doesn t work either so i had to use power button to shut down my phone..
Tried many times but it didn t work.
Somebody knows why is that ?
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The "fastboot boot recovery.img" is not supported in hboot 1.54 to 1.61 (was only supported in 1.44). So you can't boot a recovery you must flash it over your stock recovery using "fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-2-m7.img":
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-2-m7.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Then reboot in recovery mode.

alray said:
The "fastboot boot recovery.img" is not supported in hboot 1.54 to 1.61 (was only supported in 1.44). So you can't boot a recovery you must flash it over your stock recovery using "fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-2-m7.img":
Code:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-2-m7.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Then reboot in recovery mode.
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Thanks
Got custom recovery.
Just need to find a stock recovery next time :good:
Another question: is the nandroid backup size that big ? it said 6504 MB and i have only about 2700MB available..
Need to free some space...........

nARDOs said:
Thanks
Got custom recovery.
Just need to find a stock recovery next time :good:
Another question: is the nandroid backup size that big ? it said 6504 MB and i have only about 2700MB available..
Need to free some space...........
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Nandroid backup of? It depends what is included in the backup.... if the data partition is included and there were a lot of things saved on the phone then yes it can be really big.... Normally id say around 1.5 gb is normal when its a stock backup without any user data.

alray said:
Nandroid backup of? It depends what is included in the backup.... if the data partition is included and there were a lot of things saved on the phone then yes it can be really big.... Normally id say around 1.5 gb is normal when its a stock backup without any user data.
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Was actually thinking of stock backup without user data.
Do i have to backup "Boot" also ? or only the "system".

nARDOs said:
Was actually thinking of stock backup without user data.
Do i have to backup "Boot" also ? or only the "system".
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Boot is the kernel and system is the OS. I would recommend to backup both of them. Boot isn't very big so it worth being backed up.
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alray said:
Boot is the kernel and system is the OS. I would recommend to backup both of them. Boot isn't very big so it worth being backed up.
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OK.
Is the Root feature on TWRP stable ? Can i use it to root ?

alray said:
Boot is the kernel and system is the OS. I would recommend to backup both of them. Boot isn't very big so it worth being backed up.
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Hi again,
Can I find stock recovery.img on the nandroid file ?
Didn t find it t there.

nARDOs said:
OK.
Is the Root feature on TWRP stable ? Can i use it to root ?
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If you are going to use twrp's root make sure you have a recent twrp version otherwise it will flash an outdated SU version and cause a Bootloop. But yes it's a reliable method, if you prefer you can flash the latest supersu.zip file from twrp.
nARDOs said:
Hi again,
Can I find stock recovery.img on the nandroid file ?
Didn t find it t there.
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Stock recovery isn't included in a nandroid. What is your version-main number? Will try to find it for you.
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alray said:
If you are going to use twrp's root make sure you have a recent twrp version otherwise it will flash an outdated SU version and cause a Bootloop. But yes it's a reliable method, if you prefer you can flash the latest supersu.zip file from twrp.
Stock recovery isn't included in a nandroid. What is your version-main number? Will try to find it for you.
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Thanks mate.
Mine is 7.19.401.51.

nARDOs said:
Thanks mate.
Mine is 7.19.401.51.
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yep make sure to use SuperSu 2.65
https://download.chainfire.eu/921/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.65-20151226141550.zip

alray said:
yep make sure to use SuperSu 2.65
https://download.chainfire.eu/921/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.65-20151226141550.zip
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Thanks :good:
Do u know a better custom ROM which is not based on sense ?
I m thinking about miui v6 (don t know if there is stable miui v7 for m7) or cm12 (or stable cm13)