Database Develop

[SOLVED]Stuck on HTC screen or boot animation: RUU not helping

EDIT: SOLVED BY NAND RESTORE
This happened after an attempt to flash darkraider on top of att ICS RUU. Phone got stuck at boot animation for ICS roms and HTC screen for GB roms. Tried reverting using RUUs (CINGULAR GB and ATT ICS) but it doesn't help.
Also tried flashing boot.img from the customized ROMs without success.
It was a Canadian Rogers Raider with S-OFF and unlocked bootloader. Any help would be appreciated!

stgeorge88 said:
This happened after an attempt to flash darkraider on top of att ICS RUU. Phone got stuck at boot animation for ICS roms and HTC screen for GB roms. Tried reverting using RUUs (CINGULAR GB and ATT ICS) but it doesn't help.
Also tried flashing boot.img from the customized ROMs without success.
It was a Canadian Rogers Raider with S-OFF and unlocked bootloader. Any help would be appreciated!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This happened to me... What i did is flash stock boot.img kernel first through the htc vivid tool... Then flash the stock ruu. Zip to the phone... Hopefully you made a nand backup because you'll have to reatore your back up
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using XDA

NismoZ said:
This happened to me... What i did is flash stock boot.img kernel first through the htc vivid tool... Then flash the stock ruu. Zip to the phone... Hopefully you made a nand backup because you'll have to reatore your back up
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the reply; Im just to report back that a restore worked!
Still baffled tho. Thought RUU is the ultimate reverting tool. Anyway another great reason to do backup!

stgeorge88 said:
Thanks for the reply; Im just to report back that a restore worked!
Still baffled tho. Thought RUU is the ultimate reverting tool. Anyway another great reason to do backup!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi,Stuck boot anim。。。 It happened to me too
And I found the reason。Because of that TOUCH RECOVERY。
So,I tried to use RUU to restore。But it doesn't work。I flashed AT&T RUU,then swith to Australian RUU again and again。
Finally, I knew。This couldn't work!
Then I tried to change the CID。change super CID 11111111 to any CID you figure out。Like 987654321
Then It works!! But My Velocity can not use the SuperCID anymore。
and in my opinion, I think it's caused by TOUCH RECOVERY
---------- Post added at 11:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 AM ----------
stgeorge88 said:
Thanks for the reply; Im just to report back that a restore worked!
Still baffled tho. Thought RUU is the ultimate reverting tool. Anyway another great reason to do backup!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And you‘re chinese too? aren‘t you?

Nihao
Interesting cuz I was using the twrp touch recovery to flash darkraider on top if at&t ics ruu.
I didn't change cid. After a nand restore now everything works fine.
Funny thing is the backup was done in twrp so I used that to restore then used the at&t ics ruu t. After that I installed wcxrecovery and darkraider. I was indeed suspecting somethingwrong with the touch recoverycuz that vs wcx is the only difference from the guide.
ChunD.K said:
Hi,Stuck boot anim。。。 It happened to me too
And I found the reason。Because of that TOUCH RECOVERY。
So,I tried to use RUU to restore。But it doesn't work。I flashed AT&T RUU,then swith to Australian RUU again and again。
Finally, I knew。This couldn't work!
Then I tried to change the CID。change super CID 11111111 to any CID you figure out。Like 987654321
Then It works!! But My Velocity can not use the SuperCID anymore。
and in my opinion, I think it's caused by TOUCH RECOVERY
---------- Post added at 11:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 AM ----------
And you‘re chinese too? aren‘t you?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

stgeorge88 said:
Nihao
Interesting cuz I was using the twrp touch recovery to flash darkraider on top if at&t ics ruu.
I didn't change cid. After a nand restore now everything works fine.
Funny thing is the backup was done in twrp so I used that to restore then used the at&t ics ruu t. After that I installed wcxrecovery and darkraider. I was indeed suspecting somethingwrong with the touch recoverycuz that vs wcx is the only difference from the guide.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've see Nihao
So ,You are noT Chinese. Right?

stgeorge88 said:
SOLVED BY NAND RESTORE
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This thread has been brought to you by stgeorge88. Who would like to remind you, if you are going to mess around on a phone after rooting, make sure you do a nandroid backup before messing with anything and finding out the RUU will not help and then finding out your screwed.
Lol just kiddin around
Sent from my HTC Vivid

ChunD.K said:
I've see Nihao
So ,You are noT Chinese. Right?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes I am
ZeroRilix said:
This thread has been brought to you by stgeorge88. Who would like to remind you, if you are going to mess around on a phone after rooting, make sure you do a nandroid backup before messing with anything and finding out the RUU will not help and then finding out your screwed.
Lol just kiddin around
Sent from my HTC Vivid
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol thanks for help making the point loud and clear! but seriously the nand backup indeed saved the day.

lol thanks for help making the point loud and clear! but seriously the nand backup indeed saved the day.[/QUOTE]
Where can I find a copy of a nand backup so I can apply it to my vivid. I'm stuck on boot anim and didn't back up my own. Live and learn I guess.

Sorry, got it up again with ruu...
Sent from my MB860 using xda app-developers app

But for some reason, every time I apply a rom and gapps, I get stuck at the animation. With cwm or the other recovery, doesn't matter which one...
Sent from my MB860 using xda app-developers app

I saw this thread just now. I own a HTC Velocity 4G. The Aussie version of the vivid and the same thing happened to me but the problem for me is that i am not S-OFF. When i try to use the RUU i get error 140 bootloader error. I don't understand the problem could one of you guys help me out. Walk me through what i should do.
Many thanks

I don't think you're going to be able to use an ruu to solve your problem because your rom version is higher than the ruu, but since you're s-on, when you flash a rom, do you flash the boot.img before in fastboot because some roms boot without the boot.img flashed, but others won't. If that doesn't work you'll have to s-off because your phone won't let the ruu work for a downgrade.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Just in cases you decide not to revert to stock

I'm a little wiser now and I'm sure I'll have to go s off to get any further.
Thanks for helping.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium

[Q] Sprint HTC One Bricked

So, I was trying to put the Google Edition rom on my HTC One for Sprint. I had the right rom and everything. I noticed Wi-Fi wasn't working so I took it off and tried to go back to stock and then I noticed that the version on my phone (1.31.651.2) was higher than the version on the RUU. I have no OS installed on my phone and every time I try to flash a rom, it tells me I'm unrooted. Then, when I'm prompted to install superuser, it just reboots. I am now stuck in bootloader and recovery. I have absolutely no clue what to do. I have S-on as well. Please help!

All I can think of is to use this stock ROM here based on the 1.31 firmware and use the adb flash method. But I'm not sure if that would work as flashing .img's from adb would require S-OFF. Then again I am a bit new here, and others with more experience could chip in and then I may learn from it as well.

TylerBR97 said:
So, I was trying to put the Google Edition rom on my HTC One for Sprint. I had the right rom and everything. I noticed Wi-Fi wasn't working so I took it off and tried to go back to stock and then I noticed that the version on my phone (1.31.651.2) was higher than the version on the RUU. I have no OS installed on my phone and every time I try to flash a rom, it tells me I'm unrooted. Then, when I'm prompted to install superuser, it just reboots. I am now stuck in bootloader and recovery. I have absolutely no clue what to do. I have S-on as well. Please help!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
From bootloader use this tool to sideload a rom. (download the rom you want).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236814
---------- Post added at 06:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:05 PM ----------
Also after doing that you can follow this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821 to use the 1.29 RUU if needed.

I just tried to use the program but it always says error: closed. Also, in recovery, it doesn't let me open sideload. It always fails. Again, whenever I try to flash a rom, it tells me I'm not rooted and it fails to install. There is really no RUU for version 1.31.651.2? I've been without my One for over a week :'( I'm going nuts lol

TylerBR97 said:
I just tried to use the program but it always says error: closed. Also, in recovery, it doesn't let me open sideload. It always fails. Again, whenever I try to flash a rom, it tells me I'm not rooted and it fails to install. There is really no RUU for version 1.31.651.2? I've been without my One for over a week :'( I'm going nuts lol
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
just use revone in recovery.

TylerBR97 said:
So, I was trying to put the Google Edition rom on my HTC One for Sprint. I had the right rom and everything. I noticed Wi-Fi wasn't working so I took it off and tried to go back to stock and then I noticed that the version on my phone (1.31.651.2) was higher than the version on the RUU. I have no OS installed on my phone and every time I try to flash a rom, it tells me I'm unrooted. Then, when I'm prompted to install superuser, it just reboots. I am now stuck in bootloader and recovery. I have absolutely no clue what to do. I have S-on as well. Please help!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You need to s off. You get a lot more options for recovering from things like this. The thread is in one of the development forums here. Use moonshines method or download the all in one tool and use revone. It's really easy. Then you should be able to RUU back to stock and reroot.

I want to thank you guys for helping me first and foremost but I could not get revone on my phone and I couldn't do moonshine either. Moonshine ended in an error and revone requires root which somehow I don't have. I don't think there is any way I can get s-off

TylerBR97 said:
I want to thank you guys for helping me first and foremost but I could not get revone on my phone and I couldn't do moonshine either. Moonshine ended in an error and revone requires root which somehow I don't have. I don't think there is any way I can get s-off
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If its not done can you use the all in one tool to dev unlock and flash a recovery. Then you could either sideload a rom or try this method to RUU back to 1.29 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821

Konfuzion said:
If its not done can you use the all in one tool to dev unlock and flash a recovery. Then you could either sideload a rom or try this method to RUU back to 1.29 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Still no luck :-/

TylerBR97 said:
Still no luck :-/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you give more info? Where is it falling? Error messages?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app

Konfuzion said:
Can you give more info? Where is it falling? Error messages?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Whenever I try to sideload to use revone, it fails and tells me to reboot. Trying to flash superuser or any type of rom also fails. I'm somehow unrooted, and when I try to use the command prompts to get S-off, when I put in the "echo.." command, it says there's is an error

From recovery try to perform restore..it should work instead of rebooting.
Or u cn go back to stock firmware d base version of it
Nd do double check that it supports ur device model.
Good luck n keep posted.
Hit thanks if I helped u..
A click for u but rep for me.
Sent from my LT26i using xda premium

TylerBR97 said:
Whenever I try to sideload to use revone, it fails and tells me to reboot. Trying to flash superuser or any type of rom also fails. I'm somehow unrooted, and when I try to use the command prompts to get S-off, when I put in the "echo.." command, it says there's is an error
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok so you need to do the following
Dev Unlock http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Then Flash a recovery with this tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236814
Try a rom like the following based on 1.31 and sideload with above tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2368907
If your still haveing trouble then thry to flash the 1.29 RUU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
If you follow this you should have no trouble getting back up and running. If you do use the RUU then maybe also follow my guide and get s-off to avoid future problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2319412
Let me know how you get on and what if any problems you run into.

Konfuzion said:
Ok so you need to do the following
Dev Unlock http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Then Flash a recovery with this tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236814
Try a rom like the following based on 1.31 and sideload with above tool.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2368907
If your still haveing trouble then thry to flash the 1.29 RUU
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
If you follow this you should have no trouble getting back up and running. If you do use the RUU then maybe also follow my guide and get s-off to avoid future problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2319412
Let me know how you get on and what if any problems you run into.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Still nothing Sideload failed so I used adb push to get the rom and try to flash it that way but that failed too.

Does the computer see your device? Adb? Fastboot? Is TWRP installed?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda premium

TylerBR97 said:
Still nothing Sideload failed so I used adb push to get the rom and try to flash it that way but that failed too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you get root? Because that should be your first step.
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app

mrlakadaddy said:
Does the computer see your device? Adb? Fastboot? Is TWRP installed?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, the computer does see it and yes, TWRP is installed

Konfuzion said:
Did you get root? Because that should be your first step.
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have no clue how to do it, though. I used adb push to get superuser on my phone and when I try to install it, it fails. I'm not sure if I'm pushing it to the wrong folder or what. How would you be rooting it?

Try sideloading through TWRP a stock rooted Rom
Sent from my HTCONE using xda premium

So I recently accidentally wiped my internal storage which pretty much bricked my phone. I was rooted with S=on and custom recovery. Sideloading would not work for me, tried using TWRP and Clockwork mod recovery. I was able to return to stock though using this method : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250904. Worked like a charm, then I unlocked the bootloader again, flashed a custom recovery again and rooted again. I didn't see anyone else post the above thread, so I thought I would share in the hope that it helps.

[Q] bootloop/no service Sprint HTC One

Before I did anything I updated to the newest firmware. Then using twrp I created back ups and transfured them to my computer. I flash the Android Rev 4.3 not knowing it was GSM only. The phone never would go past the boot loader. So i restored from my twrp back up. All of my stuff came back but I had no service and after about a min the phone would reboot it self. So i did the factory wipe and have been trying to get a rom to flash since then. I was finally able to get one to load today but i still have the same no service/reboot issue, however now i can't access the menu. When i swipe up it just says HTC till it reboots it self.
I have resorted to using ADB to load roms I have even used super wipe with no changes. I'm out of ideas here.

You need to run an ruu
Sent from my Tranquil HTC One via tapa4

Yes I know. There is no ruu available for the latest firmware.

Wyley87 said:
Yes I know. There is no ruu available for the latest firmware.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Download any RUU and upgrade the firmware manually. There are flashable zips in the general forum I believe.
Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2406330
Do that or install an old RUU and do the OTA upgrade.

atroph said:
Download any RUU and upgrade the firmware manually. There are flashable zips in the general forum I believe.
Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2406330
Do that or install an old RUU and do the OTA upgrade.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do I install an old ruu? I took.the latest ota update.

Wyley87 said:
How do I install an old ruu? I took.the latest ota update.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Please forgive me as my flashing back to stock experience goes back to my Motorola Photon days. If I soft-bricked my device I would SBF (Motorola's RUU) back. Any version would work. Once I had the device reloaded I would then re-unlock and try again with my favorite choice of ROM.
Honestly at this point what do you have to lose? I would try any and all RUU's to try and un-brick your phone.
Try here:
Q16
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277892

atroph said:
Honestly at this point what do you have to lose?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A lot.
if you are s-on, flash the 4.3 full firmware http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23159073880933344
if you are s-off, flash the modified firmware http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23159073880933456

Sorry for not replying sooner. I ess able to flash the radio and now have signal. Every thing seems to be good now.
What are the benefits of turning s off?
Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk

Wyley87 said:
Sorry for not replying sooner. I ess able to flash the radio and now have signal. Every thing seems to be good now.
What are the benefits of turning s off?
Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
S-OFF gives you access to all partitions on your phone.
One benefit would be you wouldn't have to go thru so much trouble as you have in the past few days. Just run an RUU and done

Oh ok. I think I saw a thread about s off. But Sprint is not supported yet.
Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk

Sprint can easily do s_off. I'll see if I can dig up the thread.
Sent from my One using Tapatalk
---------- Post added at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 AM ----------
Found it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314642
Requires hboot 1.44
Sent from my One using Tapatalk

Wyley87 said:
Oh ok. I think I saw a thread about s off. But Sprint is not supported yet.
Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2496687

Ok I am now s off. Now what?
Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk

All you need is to flash a radio bro. If your phone comes on with no service it's missing a radio at boot. Just go to recovery, hit advanced, hit adb sideload with phone connected open command window with platform tools and type adb sideload (radio name) and hit enter. No parenthesis.

Asosaki said:
All you need is to flash a radio bro. If your phone comes on with no service it's missing a radio at boot. Just go to recovery, hit advanced, hit adb sideload with phone connected open command window with platform tools and type adb sideload (radio name) and hit enter. No parenthesis.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yea I got it. Lol been up and running fine since last Wednesday/Thursday.
Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk

[Q] Trouble flashing any roms and RUU

I upgraded to 4.06.651.4. HBoot 1.56 Unlocked S-On
Using TWRP 2.6.3.0, I am unable to successfully flash any roms. Everything is successfully installed but all exhibit the same behavior. Boots up and when I unlock the lockscreen, I get the "htcdialer is taking too long" or whatever. No matter what I do there, it will eventually reboot (within 1 minute or so). Tried flashing some aosp roms but they do not fully boot.
Tried locking bootloader and running RUU 3.05.651.6 (which seems to be the latest) but it always fails with an unknown error, which is likely because I'm trying to downgrade firmware? Problem is there doesn't appear to be a 4.06 RUU yet.
Any ideas?

Did you happen to flash a GSM rom that does not have Sprint support?

BD619 said:
Did you happen to flash a GSM rom that does not have Sprint support?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No but i did install the wrong recovery image. Installed ATT's somehow. Was able to flash Sprint recovery and things appeared to be ok at that point.

bcaldwell said:
No but i did install the wrong recovery image. Installed ATT's somehow. Was able to flash Sprint recovery and things appeared to be ok at that point.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok Our device and GSM devices have different mount points that's why you are having issues.
Look HERE to get fixed up
PM or post here if you need help or have questions.

BD619 said:
Ok Our device and GSM devices have different mount points that's why you are having issues.
Look HERE to get fixed up
PM or post here if you need help or have questions.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Awesome man. Everything is good again. Thanks.

bcaldwell said:
Awesome man. Everything is good again. Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good to here enjoy

[Q] [SOLVED] Unlocked/Rooted with S-On want OTA

I would like to install the AT&T OTA of 4.4.2 but have a custom recovery and am unable to upgrade. I am rooted with the stock 4.3 ROM and have the twrp recovery installed. I have S-ON. I've searched around trying to find a way to get this to work but can't seem to figure it out. I've tried looking around for an AT&T 4.3 stock recovery to try and flash it but can't seem to find one. The one from the Dev sticky page is not available for download. Can someone detail the steps I have to perform to get the 4.4.2 OTA from AT&T. Thanks in advance.
[SOLVED]
OK, problem fixed and 4.4.2 installed from OTA. I had relocked the bootloader on my phone so... start from scratch. Steps to resolve
1 - Unlock Bootloader
2 - Get S-Off on device (Makes everything easier). I used Firewater (http://firewater-soff.com)
3 - Flash the AT&T 3.17.502.3 (4.3) RUU from here (http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_...3_10-38j-1157-04_release_334235_signed_2-exe/). You may need a different one if not on AT&T
4 - Start phone, check for update. Let it download. Cake.
Now off to redo all the settings on my phone. Hope this helps someone else.

You can extract recovery.IMG from the ATT 4.4.2 OTA update if you can't find anything else.
sent from my mobile device

SaHiLzZ said:
You can extract recovery.IMG from the ATT 4.4.2 OTA update if you can't find anything else.
sent from my mobile device
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Awesome, that's what I wanted to hear. I'm going to give that a shot. Thank you

Stock recoveries here: http://d-h.st/users/guich/?fld_id=29380#files
sent from my mobile device

SaHiLzZ said:
Stock recoveries here: http://d-h.st/users/guich/?fld_id=29380#files
sent from my mobile device
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I flashed my recovery but recovery now just gets a read triangle with the exclamation

Let the phone download OTA and apply it
sent from my mobile device

SaHiLzZ said:
Let the phone download OTA and apply it
sent from my mobile device
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Doing now.

It downloaded and attempted to install, then failed half way. Anything else I have to do before I update? Do I have to lock my bootloader again or unroot?
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app

Yea lock bootloader
sent from my mobile device

No dice. Same deal.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app

Text/Photo of the error?

SaHiLzZ said:
Text/Photo of the error?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It doesn't give me an error. The OTA downloads, reboots and gets to a triangle with the green arrows inside and starts installing, then about 25% of the way it stops and goes to a red triangle. I'm thinking the MD5 to one of my files may be failing. I installed an edit to the framework sometime ago to get the hotspot working (that's the only change to the stock rom I've made). It doesn't really give me an error message though.

It could be the issue. You will need to choose one of the few options:
1. Restore a stock ATT OS for the same version you have (4.3) and update again
2. S-OFF (Preferred to avoid future messy bricks) and reinstall old ATT RUU and then upgrade all the way without custom rom/rooting/firmware changes
3. Wait for someone to post a custom rom install of the new ATT 4.4 update and install that.

SaHiLzZ said:
It could be the issue. You will need to choose one of the few options:
1. Restore a stock ATT OS for the same version you have (4.3) and update again
2. S-OFF (Preferred to avoid future messy bricks) and reinstall old ATT RUU and then upgrade all the way without custom rom/rooting/firmware changes
3. Wait for someone to post a custom rom install of the new ATT 4.4 update and install that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, I appreciate your help. I think I'm gonna go with option 2, depending on how much time I have to do this, or 3 if time is an issue. Just one more question for you. Is firewater the best method to get S-Off or do you recommend a different one?

SMaximus7 said:
Thanks, I appreciate your help. I think I'm gonna go with option 2, depending on how much time I have to do this, or 3 if time is an issue. Just one more question for you. Is firewater the best method to get S-Off or do you recommend a different one?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If the ota stops on the second half as you discribe I think you have the wrong stock recovery. Different version than your "version-main"

mb_guy said:
If the ota stops on the second half as you discribe I think you have the wrong stock recovery. Different version than your "version-main"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I guess it can't hurt to try and reflash the recovery and retry. I'll give it a try.

SMaximus7 said:
I guess it can't hurt to try and reflash the recovery and retry. I'll give it a try.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had the exact same thing occur, had a newer recovery than "fastboot getvar all"

mb_guy said:
I had the exact same thing occur, had a newer recovery than "fastboot getvar all"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It could be because I flashed the recovery that came with the OTA with fastboot and then after SaHiLzZ pointed me in the right direction was able to download the 4.3 recovery but flashed that one with flashify. I bet you the one I did with flashify didn't take. Funny thing is I also relocked my bootloader and now must unlock it again and that will probably wipe my device. What a mess, oh well, I hope that's all it is and at least I'm learning as I go.

SMaximus7 said:
It could be because I flashed the recovery that came with the OTA with fastboot and then after SaHiLzZ pointed me in the right direction was able to download the 4.3 recovery but flashed that one with flashify. I bet you the one I did with flashify didn't take. Funny thing is I also relocked my bootloader and now must unlock it again and that will probably wipe my device. What a mess, oh well, I hope that's all it is and at least I'm learning as I go.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ya, I was lucky, had a nandroid . But you are right the recovery in the ota is too new.

Solved
OK, problem fixed and 4.4.2 installed from OTA. I had relocked the bootloader on my phone so... start from scratch. Steps to resolve
1 - Unlock Bootloader
2 - Get S-Off on device (Makes everything easier). I used Firewater (http://firewater-soff.com)
3 - Flash the AT&T 3.17.502.3 (4.3) RUU from here (http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_...3_10-38j-1157-04_release_334235_signed_2-exe/). You may need a different one if not on AT&T
4 - Start phone, check for update. Let it download. Cake.
Now off to redo all the settings on my phone. Hope this helps someone else. Thanks everybody for chiming in.