Hi,
My new HTC One's vibrate isn't very strong, so the vendor is sending me a new one. I'm rooted though, so thought I'd better start looking at ways to "undo" the root. When looking at options on the HTC One Toolkit, I "somehow" did something to my phone. All I "Thought" I was doing was getting the version information off it, so I could find the correct RUU, but when trying to reboot after that, it just kept going back to the bootloader with some error like "re-locked" and "security warning".
After extensive searches, I learnt I could flash the unlock.bin file again to unlock it. Done...but then it just sat at the "Slim" logo [ROM I was running]. I could still boot into Recovery (CWM) and tried clearing cache and dalvik - but still sat at the "Slim" logo. So I started digging in. I tried to mount the SDcard in CWM, but wouldn't mount. So flashed TWRP, but same thing there. When I try to mount anything, the only folder it will let me select is "System" - nothing else mounts and my "Storage" reads "0 bytes".
So I thought maybe I'd lost root, everything was Read Only and that's why I couldn't write to anything. So using the HTC One toolkit, flashed SuperSu. Still same thing.
I did manage to adb the slim ROM and the gapps to /sdcard, but when I tried to install, nothing would "mount" in order to install it...so all I got was errors saying install failed, and a bunch of directories that couldn't be "mounted". In summary I've done the following with Fastboot:
Flashed Unlock file
Flashed boot.img (from Slim Rom)
flashed Recovery (CWM first, but now TWRP)
Fastboot Clear cache
But after all that, when I boot into Recovery, nothing mounts and I can't get past this. Any help you could provide would be MOST welcome!
Thanks in advance.
-- Edit --
Disregard - got it finally. Using TWRP, I formatted the data directory, and it was writeable again. Not sure if it helped, but I then resubmitted everything I did in the list above, booted to Recovery, and was then able to adb the ROM and Gapps over and it installed fine. Phew.... Still need to figure out how to get it all back to stock though. That's my next task.
Related
Sorry guys, I have searched through, tried all possible things... but cannot get things working... here's my story (long, but gives the whole picture)
1. Was on CM 6.0 (stable) and Amon RA 1.7 recovery
2. Got a new SD card (8gb class 6)
3. Had Nand backups, so just removed the old card and inserted the new
4. Booted into recovery, partitioned SD card, copied CM 6.1.0 RC and gapps onto the SDCard
5. Performed Wipe Data/Factory reset, Wipe cache, Wipe Dalvik-cache and flashed CM 6.1.0 rc and gapps
6. Booted into the ROM, signed into my account, got all my apps from market
7. Everything was running fine
8. Booted into recovery, made a Nand backup and installed Steel my Elegance
9. Booted into the ROM and realized something was not correct, so decided to restore from the Nand backup
10. Booted into recovery and tried to restore - failure, asked me to run nand backup from adb
11. Did that but that did not resolve the situation
12. Performed step #5 (above) again and got it to the original state
13. Did not login into my account, as I wanted to get a backup of a fresh install
14. Booted into recovery made a Nand backup successfully
15. Just to be on the safer side, tried restoring... did not work. Same error - run SH from adb - tried that, but did not work
16. Read somewhere on the forums to wipe cache before backup and try, did that backed up and tried restoring - no go
17. Decided to flash ClockWork recovery - did that through terminal (ROM booting properly)
18. Booted into recovery - successfull
19. Tried creating Nand backup - failed at Cache - cannot image cache error message or something
20. Performed format SD card, cache, system and all other formats available from the recovery (ClockWork mod)
21. Tried performing nand backup - created some folders/files under the clockwork mod folder with junk characters
22. Performed a SD card format from computer (FAT32)
23. Booted into recovery and tried nand backup - no go
24. Decided to revert back to Amon RA 1.7 - flashed through terminal and rebooted into recovery - phone won't go to recovery
25. Though there might be some problem with the img file, so downloaded from multiple locations and tried it - still no go
26. Followed all sorts of instructions - mount/remount, flash_image - no go. When I do flash_image recovery <image name>, the command exits without any errors, but still can't boot into recovery
27. Installed ROM manager and flashed clockworkmod recovery from within, still no go.
28. Performed "Fix permissions" - ended with "Could not run some privileged commands"
29. I can still boot into the ROM and when I go to terminal can do SU - takes me to "#" from "$" - so I am guessing I still have root
It just doesn't add up... and I feel very lost, right now. I guess the only thing remaining to do is go back to 2.1 RUU, reroot and go from there. Is there any other way? Or did I do something wrong?
Can someone please help?
Edit: I had enough battery juice or wall power plugged into the phone while trying the backups and restores...
Do you still have the super user app? Check the permissions in the app, maybe one couldve gotten declined???
go to impalers cyanogen mod q&a, ask there, impaler is really knowlegable and helpful, you should get some concrete help.
I don't think this has anything to do with CM, else would have posted there.
Thanks anyways.
cordell12 said:
Do you still have the super user app? Check the permissions in the app, maybe one couldve gotten declined???
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Checked that, everything that needs access seems to have it.
Any other ideas? I am so close to going RUU route......
Maybe this can help? I dont know never had this happen?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845069
Thanks everyone... I ended up going the RUU way. Got my recovery back, backup/restore and CM6.1.0 RC up & running. Loooonnnnggg night .
andythegreenguy said:
Thanks everyone... I ended up going the RUU way. Got my recovery back, backup/restore and CM6.1.0 RC up & running. Loooonnnnggg night .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hate that you had to go that route, but atleast all is well now. It couldve been worse and not even let you RUU Thats a Scary thought!
cordell12 said:
I hate that you had to go that route, but atleast all is well now. It couldve been worse and not even let you RUU Thats a Scary thought!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No kidding... . It was so frustrating, just going through it all.
Originally, I had rooted my phone that had 2.31.651.7 on it. So, I applied that RUU and went through the root. It seemed to have rooted fine, but then it won't allow me to flash recovery - did the same steps as I had performed during my first rooting process, but didn't work. Then went through all possible ideas suggested on the forums... still no luck. So, finally put the 2.27.651.5 RUU, followed regaw_leinad's rooting method and everything worked out.
All-in-all a good learning experience .
BTW, for anyone that is reading, I think the issue was a corrupted SD card. I might have pulled it while the phone was running and then applied a corrupted recovery image.
SO i was running nook color version 1.1.0 and i used the autonooter to get clockwork installed. I then tried to use the monster rootpack to install phiremod but after it says install is complete i rebooted but now every time i reboot it goes directly to clockwork and i cant get it to boot up normally. is there anything i can do besides a restore to stock to install phiremod/cm7 or exit recovery? BTW i did remove the monster sd card so thats not the reason its booting that way....
When booted to CWR, use adb:
adb shell
Check that rom is mounted with:
mount
You should see /rom somewhere in the returned result.
If it's mounted, do:
echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt
If not:
mkdir /rom
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /rom
Then use previous command.
If that doesn't help, you can always flash my cwr remover .zip, found on my nook color restore to stock thread.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
thanks im going to try that right now.
So i am trying to run adb but it says device not found and i cant figure out how to get the device to mount
I had the same thing happen. In recovery, install the zip file in this post to remove recovery and keep it rooted. You will then be able to reboot normally.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
I read that it does that with autonooter 3.0. What you need to do is reboot normally after flashing recovery (don't reboot into recovery immediately after flashing). Afterwards you can reboot into recovery.
Hello guys,
I had the same problem, but with Team Win Recovery
I tried to remove TWR folder in sdcard, wipe Cache, Dalvik cache and even factory reset.
I installed a new rom, and as last attempt i tried to wipe all system tree, but nothing happen.
I tried to fix following the list showed in this post, but I'm not able to mount "mmcblk0p2".
Any ideas? There is a TWR remover ?
Advance thank for helps.
krisslake said:
Hello guys,
I had the same problem, but with Team Win Recovery
I tried to remove TWR folder in sdcard, wipe Cache, Dalvik cache and even factory reset.
I installed a new rom, and as last attempt i tried to wipe all system tree, but nothing happen.
I tried to fix following the list showed in this post, but I'm not able to mount "mmcblk0p2".
Any ideas? There is a TWR remover ?
Advance thank for helps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not really sure what you are saying was your problem. But I have a lot of solutions to booting problems in my nook color tips thread linked in my signature. See items A8 and A12. And there is my partition repair thread.
Sent from my BNTV400 using Tapatalk
Hello guys, I really need your help here.
I will try to explain the situation as detailed as possible, if you still need any info, just ask.
I own a HTC One, carrier locked (Base) and not the sprint version, whatever that is.
Yesterday I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device, following a tutorial by a german tech site. It all went well, everything worked and I was happy. I did a complete backup of the Internal Storage, as accessible by PC. I did also install TWRP and used it to flash SuperSU. I did not do any backup using TWRP.
After downloading a few root apps, a few demanded missing Busybox, so I went to research a bit. I found some installers, downloaded the first one, and clicked install. It said something along the lines of "Install failed, try another location", so I did that. It failed again. I uninstalled the installer and tried another, same result. After a bit of research, I found out I had to unlock read/write permissions for the system partition.
I then found this Thread, telling to flash a .zip file which contains
- Everything necessary to install the latest SuperSU and supporting files (su binary included)
- Install latest busybox in recovery
- A ported wp_mod.ko module for this kernel
- A script to start wp_mod.ko
- A modified boot.img - insecured (allows for remounting of /system to rw when in Android), enabled USB debugging by default, and added busybox run-parts (alows scripts to run during boot).
Without noticing that the title said "Sprint HTC One" and without knowing the difference, I went on and flashed this .zip using TWRP.
The first time, it turned off/rebooted before it was finished (before TWRP showed the reboot option). Turning it on again, it was stuck on the "HTC - quietly brilliant" screen. I held the power button until it turned off, booted into recovery (TWRP) again and tried flashing the .zip again, this time seemingly successful. I clicked reboot, and it again got stuck on the "HTC - quietly brilliant" screen, now I don't know what to do.
After trying rebooting a few times, I did a factory reset, now before rebooting again, TWRP gave me the warning "No OS - Are you sure to reboot?" or something similar, which I find very strange.
Is my backup of Internal Storage of any use? (BTW: I can not access it right now, sadly)
Does anyone know what I could do?
Thanks in advance for all answers.
Oneiiros said:
Hello guys, I really need your help here.
After trying rebooting a few times, I did a factory reset, now before rebooting again, TWRP gave me the warning "No OS - Are you sure to reboot?" or something similar, which I find very strange.
Is my backup of Internal Storage of any use? (BTW: I can not access it right now, sadly)
Does anyone know what I could do?
Thanks in advance for all answers.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Long description, but you didnt say what you want to accomplish.
Anyway, probably easiest to flash a custom ROM using one of the following methods:
1- OTG Cable
2- adb push <name of rom>.zip /sdcard/
3- adb sideload <name of rom>.zip
Hi guys, I've been using TWRP for a long time, but this one is a bit of a head-scratcher for me. I'm running stock Android MMB29S on my N6, unlocked bootloader, and unrooted. I decided to install TWRP 2.8.7.1 and then root it with Beta supersu 2.66. The fastboot flashing of TWRP went fine the first time, and I opted to leave TWRP read-only. But I didn't install supersu right afterwards. Rather, I rebooted into system first, and downloaded supersu. When I attempted to reboot into recovery again to flash supersu, I'm finding out that stock recovery has overwritten TWRP. Ok, no problem, I re-flashed TWRP, but this time I allowed it to modify the system (instead of read-only). Now, I'm unable to see anything under /sdcard or any of the other folders when I go to flash the zip. Under the "Mount" Menu, I see that only "cache" is checked. Didn't want to mess with anything there.
Rebooting into system now gives me the "Your device is corrupted..." spiel, which I'm not concerned about, but I really do need to be able to see files in TWRP. Would re-installing TWRP be an option or even a different version of it?
mount system. if its still empty after that, use twrp to locate the right place in the filesystem. yes, like a file explorer app twrp can act
The solution to my problem was actually as simple as just removing the lockscreen passcode. I was wondering why TWRP was asking for that in the first place. Once I removed the lockscreen PIN and went back into TWRP I was able to see all the files. Happily rooted now. :good:
Dear friends I need help!
I've tried to flash my tablet but I've got an error message while flashing Katkiss 6.0
What I did:
downloaded Rom.(md5sum is OK)
my bootloader is ww_epad-11.4.1.17-20140711
recovery CWM v6.0.5.0
previous rom zoombi pop
/format data
wipe data factory reset
install zip from sd card. (from internal storage or micro sd card)
And I have got the following error (in attachement)
Please help, my tablet boot only recovery now.
Thanks in advance for the help
trying to boot in fastboot mode when children let me try that...
Edit: fastboot ok.
I placed the the files
KatKiss-6.0_TF701T_033.zip
open_gapps-arm-6.0-pico-20170120.zip
UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.79-20161211114519.zip
In
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot
ok I don't know how to proceed now.
Seems I cannot change the recovery from CMW to TWRP,
My bootloader is 11.4.1.17 and the tutorial to install TWRP says in capital red:
MUST BE ON A BOOTLOADER 11.4.1.27, 11.4.1.29 or 11.4.1.30
So how can I do?
I there a way to upgrade the bootloader to be able to install TWRP?
Or should I Flash the custom rom from fastboot?
My TF701 in not booting anymore.... only bootloader and recovery CMW
the positive thing is :
C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot devices
15C3E10090400000011FA8580 fastboot
Please help
I have been able to flash CROMI X (unfortunately with strong battery drain) so CMW is able to flash but for some reasons not Katkiss 6.0.
I have been told that my problem is not ROM related... So it is recovery related?
What is the better option to get katkiss on my tablet? Flash the recovery to get TWRP even if my bootloader is 11.4.1.17 and the tutorial to install TWRP says in capital red:
MUST BE ON A BOOTLOADER 11.4.1.27, 11.4.1.29 or 11.4.1.30????
There is a technical reason about this warning?
Edit: I found this on an old post:
You can try this:
Download the stock recovery from here: http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=3210
Copy the image to your fastboot folder.
Download the Asus firmware, unzip the file once and copy it to your internal SD.
Boot tablet into fastboot
Issue this command
Code:
fastboot boot recovery.img
Note: Do not flash the recovery, just boot it.
It should recognize the firmware file on your tablet and flash it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Would this method work to get the latest stock rom from Asus?
Got your PM and will try to find some time at work today. Hang in there and don't do anything to make it worse
Ok, work was crazy busy so it took a bit longer.
If you flash a recovery that is incompatible with the bootloader nothing happens. Until you use the recovery... That could permanently brick the tablet. So heed the warnings, they are there for a reason.
Ok, let's try to get you on the latest bootloader. It's no suprise at all that nothing boots if you try to flash a Android 6 rom on an Android 4 bootloader....
Download either WW or US package from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61045480&postcount=2
That zip contains the latest bootloader and a compatible TWRP recovery. Flash the zip in your current recovery just like any rom, then reboot.
When you flash a bootloader or recovery you actually write those files to the staging partition. On the next boot the bootloader will unpack it and write everything to it's proper place.
So it's essential that you flash, then reboot. Does not matter that the boot does not go anywhere. The first part, flashing the contents of /staging to it's partition(s), will happen anyway.
You should see a brief blue bar filling up when that happens. It does not take long.
Boot back into fastboot and check your bootloader version.
Enter recovery through RCK and that should be TWRP now.
Then format /data. Do not wipe it, format it. Do not interrupt it. Wait for it to finish even if it takes an hour (a full battery is a must before you start this). The format command is under the Wipe menu.
Unfortunately the formatting in this kanged TWRP is pretty buggy, but I still like it better than CWM.... If you get lots of error messages after the format (cannot mount this, cannot mount that) go into Wipe > Advanced > select Data > Change or repair file system > Change file system > choose ext3 and execute
Note: The button you have to swipe is pretty "sticky". Swipe it slowly and fully
Reboot to recovery
Go back into Wipe > Advanced etc and change the file system back to ext4
Reboot to recovery
Now everything should be ok, try to mount/unmount data.
Finally you are ready to flash Katkiss
If the bootloader flash does not work, we can try to flash Asus firmware in fastboot, but try the above first.
berndblb said:
Ok, work was crazy busy so it took a bit longer.
If you flash a recovery that is incompatible with the bootloader nothing happens. Until you use the recovery... That could permanently brick the tablet. So heed the warnings, they are there for a reason.
Ok, let's try to get you on the latest bootloader. It's no suprise at all that nothing boots if you try to flash a Android 6 rom on an Android 4 bootloader....
Download either WW or US package from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61045480&postcount=2
That zip contains the latest bootloader and a compatible TWRP recovery. Flash the zip in your current recovery just like any rom, then reboot.
When you flash a bootloader or recovery you actually write those files to the staging partition. On the next boot the bootloader will unpack it and write everything to it's proper place.
So it's essential that you flash, then reboot. Does not matter that the boot does not go anywhere. The first part, flashing the contents of /staging to it's partition(s), will happen anyway.
You should see a brief blue bar filling up when that happens. It does not take long.
Boot back into fastboot and check your bootloader version.
Enter recovery through RCK and that should be TWRP now.
Then format /data. Do not wipe it, format it. Do not interrupt it. Wait for it to finish even if it takes an hour (a full battery is a must before you start this). The format command is under the Wipe menu.
Unfortunately the formatting in this kanged TWRP is pretty buggy, but I still like it better than CWM.... If you get lots of error messages after the format (cannot mount this, cannot mount that) go into Wipe > Advanced > select Data > Change or repair file system > Change file system > choose ext3 and execute
Note: The button you have to swipe is pretty "sticky". Swipe it slowly and fully
Reboot to recovery
Go back into Wipe > Advanced etc and change the file system back to ext4
Reboot to recovery
Now everything should be ok, try to mount/unmount data.
Finally you are ready to flash Katkiss
If the bootloader flash does not work, we can try to flash Asus firmware in fastboot, but try the above first.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks a lot to take time to help me.
Will try that tonight and I'll let you know the result.
Thanks a lot!
It was just like you said.
I had to format to ext3 and ext4 because I had errors.
Battery seems to be very good. Just the screen display is very white, needs color saturation and contrast I guess...
Thanks again you save my tablet.
Now that's what I like to read! :cyclops: