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[Q] HTC Hero will not boot

Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.

mholzschuh said:
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
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Try Booting Without your Sdcard!

mholzschuh said:
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
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Reflash your recovery. It might help.
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mholzschuh said:
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
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Go to the H-Boot screen and it should show that if you push the "home" button to get into recovery. Go into recovery and format system, data, cache, and boot. Then, reflash a new rom or restore a nandroid. I don't know what you were doing to get into the situation that you are/were in.
The H-Boot searches for a HERCIMG.zip (Herc is for Hero CDMA), if you are S-on, I am not sure if you can even RUU or not (there is a thread about fastboot though). You might be able to though, but you are ok as long as you can get into recovery. If you can, follow those steps above (those are for using clockwork recovery) and you should be ok if you were only messing around with folders in the system. In fact, you might not need to wipe anything but just flash a new rom. Why not start fresh though?
Good luck! I would suggest getting S-off, it has saved me time and headaches.

thank you but...
Drunkpilot said:
Go to the H-Boot screen and it should show that if you push the "home" button to get into recovery. Go into recovery and format system, data, cache, and boot. Then, reflash a new rom or restore a nandroid. I don't know what you were doing to get into the situation that you are/were in.
The H-Boot searches for a HERCIMG.zip (Herc is for Hero CDMA), if you are S-on, I am not sure if you can even RUU or not (there is a thread about fastboot though). You might be able to though, but you are ok as long as you can get into recovery. If you can, follow those steps above (those are for using clockwork recovery) and you should be ok if you were only messing around with folders in the system. In fact, you might not need to wipe anything but just flash a new rom. Why not start fresh though?
Good luck! I would suggest getting S-off, it has saved me time and headaches.
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Thank you but that is the problem i am having. i can and have flashed the ruu both threw the sd card and threw fastboot usb.
i can not get into recovery, when in hboot i hit the home button and the phone resets and stays on the first htc screen.
can you install "clockwork recovery" without the phone fully booting ?
or is there a way to get s-off without fully booting the phone

mholzschuh said:
Thank you but that is the problem i am having. i can and have flashed the ruu both threw the sd card and threw fastboot usb.
i can not get into recovery, when in hboot i hit the home button and the phone resets and stays on the first htc screen.
can you install "clockwork recovery" without the phone fully booting ?
or is there a way to get s-off without fully booting the phone
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If you can fastboot then adb will work. Just do
Code:
adb flash_image nameofrecovery.file

Shelnutt2 said:
If you can fastboot then adb will work. Just do
Code:
adb flash_image nameofrecovery.file
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ADB is not available in fastboot mode
adb devices dose not pick it up, but fastboot devices dose

mholzschuh said:
ADB is not available in fastboot mode
adb devices dose not pick it up, but fastboot devices dose
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Did the ruu load when you did it? It should show you all of the images loading on your phone. There should be a recovery image in it too. What recovery were you using when you this happened?
Sent from my HERO JBGB

Drunkpilot said:
Did the ruu load when you did it? It should show you all of the images loading on your phone. There should be a recovery image in it too. What recovery were you using when you this happened?
Sent from my HERO JBGB
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yes the ruu loaded , i wasn't using a recovery when this happened i simply reset my phone after i loaded a new service programming file on it. I have no idea what you mean by "It should show you all of the images loading on your phone." .
ok just to clarify to all people trying to help , flashing a new ruu dose not work, but i thank you all for the help and hope i can get this fixed.
So keep the advice coming

I am having the exact same issue (I think). Randomly in the middle of the night my phone rebooted. Now it only gets to the HTC boot screen and then reboots again.
I tried booting into recovery, but it just goes back to the HTC screen.
I did not recently flash any new ROMs and have been using the same version of CM7 for awhile now. I was using Clockwork recovery. Nothing I do can get past the HTC screen. I tried all the options suggested. I even placed a new recovery image on the sdcard hoping that would work.
Any more ideas?

vitti_ix said:
I am having the exact same issue (I think). Randomly in the middle of the night my phone rebooted. Now it only gets to the HTC boot screen and then reboots again.
I tried booting into recovery, but it just goes back to the HTC screen.
I did not recently flash any new ROMs and have been using the same version of CM7 for awhile now. I was using Clockwork recovery. Nothing I do can get past the HTC screen. I tried all the options suggested. I even placed a new recovery image on the sdcard hoping that would work.
Any more ideas?
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im sry to hear about your phone , but am glad im not the only one with this problem. i have tryed oem fastboot options and still cant push a recovery img over to my hero.
i beg of you xda community plz help. /cry

vitti_ix said:
I am having the exact same issue (I think). Randomly in the middle of the night my phone rebooted. Now it only gets to the HTC boot screen and then reboots again.
I tried booting into recovery, but it just goes back to the HTC screen.
I did not recently flash any new ROMs and have been using the same version of CM7 for awhile now. I was using Clockwork recovery. Nothing I do can get past the HTC screen. I tried all the options suggested. I even placed a new recovery image on the sdcard hoping that would work.
Any more ideas?
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Have you tried Booting Without your Sdcard? If that Didnt work, Try Copying Everything from your Sdcard to a Computer, then Delete Everything off your Sdcard! Then One by One Put'em back onto your Sdcard and see if you get Lucky?
Good Luck Bro!

Same happened to mine too.drained battery. Charged it but now only shows HTC screen not going to recovery. No SD doesn't work

guys please help ..

[Q] sprint htc one stuck on boot loader

I recently tried to flash hd revolution rom and it said it install fine, but when my phone reset it went to the boot loader and it will no longer go to recovery or to the phone it is just stuck on the boot loader ( white ) screen can anyone help me get my phone working again

Fastboot erase cache

gunnyman said:
Fastboot erase cache
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Im stuck in the screen that says ( hboot ) or I can get to the FASTBOOT USB white screen. I do have it connected to my pc and my PC is making the noise to say it sees the phone

Tiltmfc said:
Im stuck in the screen that says ( hboot ) or I can get to the FASTBOOT USB white screen. I do have it connected to my pc and my PC is making the noise to say it sees the phone
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make it say fastboot USB

gunnyman said:
make it say fastboot USB
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Ok, here is where I am at right now.
1. I reflashed TWRP
2. Did a recovery from my MAY back up
3. I am not able to load into the phone but not everything is loading and the screen is black and reboots after being on for more then 3 mins
4. I can now get into recovery fine.
so Should I just reflash the rom I was trying to flash or will I need to reload a stock rom to fix what ever I screwed up...

Tiltmfc said:
Ok, here is where I am at right now.
1. I reflashed TWRP
2. Did a recovery from my MAY back up
3. I am not able to load into the phone but not everything is loading and the screen is black and reboots after being on for more then 3 mins
4. I can now get into recovery fine.
so Should I just reflash the rom I was trying to flash or will I need to reload a stock rom to fix what ever I screwed up...
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Did you ever fix this because im stuck with the same issue, black screen and reboots but now im stuck in the bootloader with no recovery and flashing recovery does nothing. Cant find an up to date ruu.zip for my phone.

Any luck?
dnmeboy said:
Did you ever fix this because im stuck with the same issue, black screen and reboots but now im stuck in the bootloader with no recovery and flashing recovery does nothing. Cant find an up to date ruu.zip for my phone.
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Right now I am in exactly in the same place. Anytime I try to reboot it goes straight to the fastboot screen, and I can't get past into either booting my phone, or into the recovery (TWRP) I've tried adb fastboot clear cache, looking for an RUU that works for mine [htc one - sprint 1.31.651.2, M7wls, S-ON, HBOOT-1.44.0000]and all I could find was an OTA). I was foolishly trying to flash the Orio One custom ROM but didn't double check things, and I think it erased my radio. AKA i super messed something up. Whenever I try to flash anything that looks like the stock RUU (i went to the htc dev site as well) it always comes back with an error: (bootloader) signature checking...FAILED (remote: signature verify fail). I've been researching it for a couple hours tonight but no luck so far. Hopefully tomorrow I can wake up with a clear mind and try to figure this thing out. If anyone has any advice, I'd much appreciate it.

danthemanespinoza88 said:
Right now I am in exactly in the same place. Anytime I try to reboot it goes straight to the fastboot screen, and I can't get past into either booting my phone, or into the recovery (TWRP) I've tried adb fastboot clear cache, looking for an RUU that works for mine [htc one - sprint 1.31.651.2, M7wls, S-ON, HBOOT-1.44.0000]and all I could find was an OTA). I was foolishly trying to flash the Orio One custom ROM but didn't double check things, and I think it erased my radio. AKA i super messed something up. Whenever I try to flash anything that looks like the stock RUU (i went to the htc dev site as well) it always comes back with an error: (bootloader) signature checking...FAILED (remote: signature verify fail). I've been researching it for a couple hours tonight but no luck so far. Hopefully tomorrow I can wake up with a clear mind and try to figure this thing out. If anyone has any advice, I'd much appreciate it.
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can u guys help in this regard... can't transfer rom file to phone.. plz help adb also not working

[Q] [HELP] My phone reboots itself in hboot, fastboot, recovery...

Hello, please I need your help guys.
This morning I wanted to unlock my bootloader, got the .bin file from htc and unlocked my phone. After that, I installed the latest twrp via adb and than flashed superSU.
Rebooted my phone, set it up, restored from htc sync manager and everything was good.
I installed Titanium, Solid explorer and some apps, and went to change something in settings. And suddenly, my phone rebooted, twice in a row. There was a message like "unexpected error, send report?". And again, my phone rebooted. This time it didn't booted back.
I started to panic, went to xda, and find the solution to try it to turn on under bright light. I tried it a few times, and suddenly it booted. I went to recovery, wiped everything, booted back and my phone worked for a few hours.
After that I wanted to call my girl and again, it rebooted and didn't booted back. After that, my nightmare started.
Now, even if I got it to boot, my phone won't boot past the HTC logo. If I got my phone to boot into hboot, it suddenly freezes and turn itself off.
If I got my phone to recovery, it will work for some little time, and again, freezes and shut itself down.
I tried to side load a stock sense rom, somewhere in the proces it freezes, turn itself off and I couldn't side load.
Now I'm in real panic because I got only 17% battery left, and I don't now what to do.
Please, does anyone has an advice what should I do

enel_ said:
Hello, please I need your help guys.
This morning I wanted to unlock my bootloader, got the .bin file from htc and unlocked my phone. After that, I installed the latest twrp via adb and than flashed superSU.
Rebooted my phone, set it up, restored from htc sync manager and everything was good.
I installed Titanium, Solid explorer and some apps, and went to change something in settings. And suddenly, my phone rebooted, twice in a row. There was a message like "unexpected error, send report?". And again, my phone rebooted. This time it didn't booted back.
I started to panic, went to xda, and find the solution to try it to turn on under bright light. I tried it a few times, and suddenly it booted. I went to recovery, wiped everything, booted back and my phone worked for a few hours.
After that I wanted to call my girl and again, it rebooted and didn't booted back. After that, my nightmare started.
Now, even if I got it to boot, my phone won't boot past the HTC logo. If I got my phone to boot into hboot, it suddenly freezes and turn itself off.
If I got my phone to recovery, it will work for some little time, and again, freezes and shut itself down.
I tried to side load a stock sense rom, somewhere in the proces it freezes, turn itself off and I couldn't side load.
Now I'm in real panic because I got only 17% battery left, and I don't now what to do.
Please, does anyone has an advice what should I do
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I'm pretty sure if you can't access HBOOT the phone needs to be sent back. Fastboot is pretty much the last line that we have to fix stuff, it that doesn't work it's most likely hardware

attanasi0 said:
I'm pretty sure if you can't access HBOOT the phone needs to be sent back. Fastboot is pretty much the last line that we have to fix stuff, it that doesn't work it's most likely hardware
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The problem is, I can acces HBOOT and even Recovery, but for a short time, after that it freezes and shut itself down.
I got new information, I just tried to boot my phone normaly, it booted to my homescreen. Because I got a low battery, I immediately turned it off, and connected my charge, and it started to charge. And after 20 min, it booted itself on!!! I wasn't even near the phone...
Just some more info, when it freezes and shut down, if I connect my charger it won't charge
This is why I had to immediately turn it off normally, and than it started to charge.

enel_ said:
The problem is, I can acces HBOOT and even Recovery, but for a short time, after that it freezes and shut itself down.
I got new information, I just tried to boot my phone normaly, it booted to my homescreen. Because I got a low battery, I immediately turned it off, and connected my charge, and it started to charge. And after 20 min, it booted itself on!!! I wasn't even near the phone...
Just some more info, when it freezes and shut down, if I connect my charger it won't charge
This is why I had to immediately turn it off normally, and than it started to charge.
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Do you have enough time before it freezes to get us a "fastboot getvar all" ?
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enel_ said:
Hello, please I need your help guys.
This morning I wanted to unlock my bootloader, got the .bin file from htc and unlocked my phone. After that, I installed the latest twrp via adb and than flashed superSU.
Rebooted my phone, set it up, restored from htc sync manager and everything was good.
I installed Titanium, Solid explorer and some apps, and went to change something in settings. And suddenly, my phone rebooted, twice in a row. There was a message like "unexpected error, send report?". And again, my phone rebooted. This time it didn't booted back.
I started to panic, went to xda, and find the solution to try it to turn on under bright light. I tried it a few times, and suddenly it booted. I went to recovery, wiped everything, booted back and my phone worked for a few hours.
After that I wanted to call my girl and again, it rebooted and didn't booted back. After that, my nightmare started.
Now, even if I got it to boot, my phone won't boot past the HTC logo. If I got my phone to boot into hboot, it suddenly freezes and turn itself off.
If I got my phone to recovery, it will work for some little time, and again, freezes and shut itself down.
I tried to side load a stock sense rom, somewhere in the proces it freezes, turn itself off and I couldn't side load.
Now I'm in real panic because I got only 17% battery left, and I don't now what to do.
Please, does anyone has an advice what should I do
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Did you go s off?

attanasi0 said:
Do you have enough time before it freezes to get us a "fastboot getvar all" ?
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The time before it freezes is never the same, but I will try my best to get it.
Just now, the following happened, my phone was off, charging, led on. I just wanted to see if everything is ok, picked up my phone from my desk, no charging, no led, again totally turned off, the same way it is totally turned off when it freezes and shut itself down.... I can't turn it on again.

LibertyMarine said:
Did you go s off?
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No, I just wanted for the first time to unlock my bootloader.
All my phones before this were Nexus phones and Samsung phones, this is my first HTC and this is what I got...

enel_ said:
The time before it freezes is never the same, but I will try my best to get it.
Just now, the following happened, my phone was off, charging, led on. I just wanted to see if everything is ok, picked up my phone from my desk, no charging, no led, again totally turned off, the same way it is totally turned off when it freezes and shut itself down.... I can't turn it on again.
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Even by holding the power button for 15 seconds ?

attanasi0 said:
Even by holding the power button for 15 seconds ?
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Out of 20 tries to turn it on, I manage to turn it on one or none times, and every try of these 20 is a by holding the power button over 15 seconds.

enel_ said:
Out of 20 tries to turn it on, I manage to turn it on one or none times, and every try of these 20 is a by holding the power button over 15 seconds.
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Do the same but while also holding the Volume-down button and make sure there's plenty of light hitting the sensors on top of the screen

attanasi0 said:
Do the same but while also holding the Volume-down button and make sure there's plenty of light hitting the sensors on top of the screen
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I have done that too, it will boot, but again it freezes at some point and turn itself off and have again to battle with the turn on process.
My biggest concern now is my battery, I can't charge it.
This morning, something was a bit strange to me, I've got a old PC with Win 7 and a laptop with Win 8.
I made the unlock process on my Win 7 machine, but the strange thing was that the identifier token that I got over adb on my Win 8 machine was different than my token on Win 7 machine, the numbers and letters were different.
I used the token from my win 7 machine and completed the whole process of unlocking the bootloader on that machine.

enel_ said:
I have done that too, it will boot, but again it freezes at some point and turn itself off and have again to battle with the turn on process.
My biggest concern now is my battery, I can't charge it.
This morning, something was a bit strange to me, I've got a old PC with Win 7 and a laptop with Win 8.
I made the unlock process on my Win 7 machine, but the strange thing was that the identifier token that I got over adb on my Win 8 machine was different than my token on Win 7 machine, the numbers and letters were different.
I used the token from my win 7 machine and completed the whole process of unlocking the bootloader on that machine.
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WARNING
Don't push the powerbutton too hard for a too long time! That's how I ****ed up mine!!! BE CAREFUL!

attanasi0 said:
Do you have enough time before it freezes to get us a "fastboot getvar all" ?
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Here is it:
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.55.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4A.21.3263.04
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 3.62.401.1
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: XXXXXXXX - changed this too
(bootloader) imei: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX - I changed this.
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0710000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4276mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-bb768ae1
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.048s
I accomplished to turn my phone off and charge it to 95%. It's now on, but I have no idea how long it will be on and when it's going to shut down itself.
What should I flash, what should I do?
I can access fastboot, recovery, my homescreen, everything but for how long...
Should I relock it? No, I would lose my recovery that would be bad.
Should I change my recovery?
And at the time I'm writing this, he shut down...

I was successful at getting a logcat. Because this is my first logcat, and don't know have I done everything good. I think the logcat ended when my phone restarted itself.
I hope this can help.
But there is a problem, the file is to big to upload on xda and the text is to long to copy it here, can someone help me with this?

enel_ said:
I was successful at getting a logcat. Because this is my first logcat, and don't know have I done everything good. I think the logcat ended when my phone restarted itself.
I hope this can help.
But there is a problem, the file is to big to upload on xda and the text is to long to copy it here, can someone help me with this?
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Upload on google drive or other file sharing site and post the link here

ok here it is:
1. in HBOOT select FASTBOOT USB with connected cable
2. type in cmd:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
3. now you should be able to access recovery, check if you are using latest recovery I'd recommend THIS
4. reflash recovery in cmd:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <file_name>.img
5. boot your phone in recovery, you may see some errors but that's fine, mount /data partition only
6. push rom to your (virtual) sd card by cmd:
Code:
adb push <file_name>.zip /data/media/0/
7. wait about 6 minutes until rom is being transferred to your phone.
8. in recovery format /system then format /cache and next format /data (do NOT select /data/media !!!)
9. reboot recovery - you may see some errors but that's fine.
10. reflash your rom
Hope that helps

I managed to upload my logcat, here it is:
http://www14.zippyshare.com/v/26697521/file.html
xavier_largeaux said:
ok here it is:
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I'm afraid xavier to flash a new rom because my phone is unstable in recovery, what if it freezes and shuts itself down in the middle of the flashing process?
What if I just flash the stock recovery and lock my bootloader again? Maybe my phone is so unstable because of the bootloader?

enel_ said:
I managed to upload my logcat, here it is:
http://www14.zippyshare.com/v/26697521/file.html
I'm afraid xavier to flash a new rom because my phone is unstable in recovery, what if it freezes and shuts itself down in the middle of the flashing process?
What if I just flash the stock recovery and lock my bootloader again? Maybe my phone is so unstable because of the bootloader?
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if you only unlocked bootloader that's fine you wouldn't have chance to brick your device, however if you S-OFF there is high risk of soft / hard bricking device as you have unrestricted access to ALL partitions, with S-ON you have access to only few partitions.
When you unlocked your bootloader it WIPED automatically your /data partition and you lost everything what you had on it.
I remember some time ago that someone after installing TWRP recovery had the same issue what you have described in your post.
Either you must lock you bootloader and flash entire RUU matching your CID & MID.
Or follow all steps in my previous post.

xavier_largeaux said:
if you only unlocked bootloader that's fine you wouldn't have chance to brick your device, however if you S-OFF there is high risk of soft / hard bricking device as you have unrestricted access to ALL partitions, with S-ON you have access to only few partitions.
When you unlocked your bootloader it WIPED automatically your /data partition and you lost everything what you had on it.
I remember some time ago that someone after installing TWRP recovery had the same issue what you have described in your post.
Either you must lock you bootloader and flash entire RUU matching your CID & MID.
Or follow all steps in my previous post.
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No no, I just unlocked my bootloader, flashed recovery and installed superSU.
Unfortunately I flashed TWRP also after I unlocker my bootloader...
10 min ago I wanted to flash stock recovery then clockworkmod and then the rest of your process. Somehow I booted my phone into fastboot, after a lot of attempts to boot it, connected it to my laptop, went into cmd, typed fastboot flash recovery recovery. img it started but suddenly my phone shut itself down, I got a failure in cmd and now after over 30 attempts I can't boot my device.
Is the interruption of this process something bad? Bricked device?

enel_ said:
No no, I just unlocked my bootloader, flashed recovery and installed superSU.
Unfortunately I flashed TWRP also after I unlocker my bootloader...
10 min ago I wanted to flash stock recovery then clockworkmod and then the rest of your process. Somehow I booted my phone into fastboot, after a lot of attempts to boot it, connected it to my laptop, went into cmd, typed fastboot flash recovery recovery. img it started but suddenly my phone shut itself down, I got a failure in cmd and now after over 30 attempts I can't boot my device.
Is the interruption of this process something bad? Bricked device?
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You are S-ON, and no you DID NOT bricked your device. It's TWRP issue I'm sure to 100%
When your HTC is switched off press and hold VOL Down and Power button together for 10 sec. You should be in HBOOT.
Try to flash stock boot.img first and then again follow above instructions. That must resolve the problem.

Stuck in boot loop. Have CWM, other details inside.

Well, you'd think I'd have learned after the first two times - don't try to go back to stock. The last few times I was able to figure it out by mere chance, but now I think I may be doomed.
I'm trying to get a ROM, any ROM to load up on my HTC One M7. I've seriously browsed probably every XDA page concerning this kind of stuff, but to no avail can I find a solution. I've also downloaded probably about 10 different ROMs / RUUs to try and flash and now I can't even get as far as the install.
So far, I've gotten AndroidRev 71.1 and ViperOne to get to the final screen before getting a nice little script that says:
"set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed"
This has happened when I tried to sideload these ROMs in CWM.
Now, if I even try to sideload a ROM.zip it gets to appx. 82% and says:
* failed to write data 'protocol fault (no status)' *
I've been without a phone for a day and a half now, trying every solution offered. Am I out of luck?
Some info:
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.44.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4A.14.3250.13
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 1.26.502.12
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
\\SN & IMEI\\
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000
(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4307mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
getvar:all FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
My provider is AT&T in the south eastern US. I've tried downloading RUU's and whatnot, but it doesn't work because CWM says it can't find /tmp/data/update.zip or something to that effect.
I'm giving up for the evening though. I would really appreciate any feedback. And yes, I've cleared the data / partitions / caches / Dalvik caches / etc. before doing this stuff and I'm not having any luck.
Does anyone know if HTC will fix this for a cost smaller than purchasing a new phone? If so, does anyone have any idea how much it costs? Honestly, I was trying to get back to stock so I could return it for a refurb since I have the purple tint camera issue.

Flash twrp 2.6.3.3. Android revolution needs that version
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And if sideload doesn't work try using adb push
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glassjoe92 said:
Well, you'd think I'd have learned after the first two times - don't try to go back to stock. The last few times I was able to figure it out by mere chance, but now I think I may be doomed.
I'm trying to get a ROM, any ROM to load up on my HTC One M7. I've seriously browsed probably every XDA page concerning this kind of stuff, but to no avail can I find a solution. I've also downloaded probably about 10 different ROMs / RUUs to try and flash and now I can't even get as far as the install.
So far, I've gotten AndroidRev 71.1 and ViperOne to get to the final screen before getting a nice little script that says:
"set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed"
This has happened when I tried to sideload these ROMs in CWM.
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have you checked the FAQ sticky thread, if it hasn't been updated/moved the info would still be in the last post
(please remember to never post questions in the sticky, if you have more questions post back here)

nateboi81 said:
Flash twrp 2.6.3.3. Android revolution needs that version
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---------- Post added at 08:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:29 AM ----------
And if sideload doesn't work try using adb push
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I managed to install that version of TWRP and I just sideloaded Android Revolution 71. I didn't get the errors I got in CWM, but it seems to still be stuck at the white splash screen with the HTC logo and red text at bottom. It doesn't progress into booting the OS.
After the supposedly successful install to AR 71, the screen went black. Should I have left it? When I pressed the home button, it vibrated. Maybe I should have given it a few more minutes, but I'm sideloading ViperOne right now. Will, update.

glassjoe92 said:
I managed to install that version of TWRP and I just sideloaded Android Revolution 71. I didn't get the errors I got in CWM, but it seems to still be stuck at the white splash screen with the HTC logo and red text at bottom. It doesn't progress into booting the OS.
After the supposedly successful install to AR 71, the screen went black. Should I have left it? When I pressed the home button, it vibrated. Maybe I should have given it a few more minutes, but I'm sideloading ViperOne right now. Will, update.
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1- "After the supposedly successful install to AR 71, the screen went black" that happens sometimes, but shouldn't be a problem... my recent experience was if I wipe cache before starting the installer it doesn't happen.
If it does happen, (before booting the ROM), I reboot to bootloader using POWER + VOLDOWN, go back to recovery and wipe dalvik and cache, and then boot the system.
2- Did you select "Wipe userpartition" during installation? You have to.
3- How long did you wait? as mentioned my first boot (with wipe), took close to 20mins.

nkk71 said:
1- "After the supposedly successful install to AR 71, the screen went black" that happens sometimes, but shouldn't be a problem... my recent experience was if I wipe cache before starting the installer it doesn't happen.
If it does happen, (before booting the ROM), I reboot to bootloader using POWER + VOLDOWN, go back to recovery and wipe dalvik and cache, and then boot the system.
2- Did you select "Wipe userpartition" during installation? You have to.
3- How long did you wait? as mentioned my first boot (with wipe), took close to 20mins.
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Okay, I decided to re-flash the AR 71 rom again. The screen is now black. Both caches were wiped prior to install, then I did select wipe userpartition during the install. I've waited for about 4 minutes now on this black screen. I'll give it a little bit more time to see if it works. Otherwise, I will restart and wipe the caches again.
From my experience before, when I boot and have to wait, I can at least get past the first splash screen with the HTC Logo and it usually just stalls on the rom's splash. Anyhow, I appreciate the info. This is farther than I've been able to make it and there's a slight shimmer of hope.
I'll post again once I've given it appx. 20 minutes / wiped caches in recovery and rebooted.
Also, just out of curiosity, I wanted to check my phone's MD5 sum, but I don't know how.
The rom's MD5 sum: CCC848CBF2B74C5FA33FD7E2269B0499

glassjoe92 said:
Okay, I decided to re-flash the AR 71 rom again. The screen is now black. Both caches were wiped prior to install, then I did select wipe userpartition during the install. I've waited for about 4 minutes now on this black screen. I'll give it a little bit more time to see if it works. Otherwise, I will restart and wipe the caches again.
From my experience before, when I boot and have to wait, I can at least get past the first splash screen with the HTC Logo and it usually just stalls on the rom's splash. Anyhow, I appreciate the info. This is farther than I've been able to make it and there's a slight shimmer of hope.
I'll post again once I've given it appx. 20 minutes / wiped caches in recovery and rebooted.
Also, just out of curiosity, I wanted to check my phone's MD5 sum, but I don't know how.
The rom's MD5 sum: CCC848CBF2B74C5FA33FD7E2269B0499
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the black screen after a successful install has been an issue for quite a few, no need to wait, just force a reboot.
Force reboot: press and hold POWER + VOLDOWN (under a bright light, not kidding!!), after about 5 seconds or so buttons should start blinking, and after 30 seconds or so, the phone will reboot, let go of POWER, but keep holding VOLDOWN to get back to bootloader.
(you may need to try 2 or 3 times to get it right)
when the rom start's booting up, it should stay on the bootsplash for about 3~4 minutes then change screen brightness, and continue (since I use custom bootup animation, I don't know if the standard one comes up with "BeatsAudio" or not), but once it changes from bootsplash to bootanimation, i wait another 15 mins or so.

F*** YES. I pushed ViperOne to /sdcard/ and installed, works! At least it took me to the OS splash, which is great news. Thank the lord.
I really appreciate your help, both of you! I was so scared I was out a phone. Now I have it working, just in time for work tonight. Thanks again!

glassjoe92 said:
F*** YES. I pushed ViperOne to /sdcard/ and installed, works! At least it took me to the OS splash, which is great news. Thank the lord.
I really appreciate your help, both of you! I was so scared I was out a phone. Now I have it working, just in time for work tonight. Thanks again!
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Cool :good: :good:
in case 2.6.3.3 is giving you headaches (black screen after install), you could always try 2.6.3.4... both are good for 4.4+ ROMs
(for some reason I'm on 2.6.3.3 and works fine 99% of the time, I only got that black screen after install once ... i think i was flashing too many recoveries at the time )

[Q] Full reboot loop?

Hi,
My One M7 is stuck in a sort of boot loop. I've had boot loops on other phones when flashing etc. but this is different to any I've had before. My phone is rooted with unlocked bootloader but it is still running stock 4.3. I've never flashed a ROM on this phone. As stated, I've had boot loops on other phones where it tries to boot but doesn't fully boot before it restarts and I assume that's the same with a HTC One. The problem I have is when the phone has fully booted, it then restarts itself after around 10 seconds. It is as if the power button is stuck so it turns itself of then on again endlessly. I can fully press the power button and feel the little click so I assume it isn't stuck. I can't think of any reason it would be doing this. I assume it will just keep looping until it is out of battery.
Any help is appreciated, thanks,
Oli.
PS. I can get into recovery fine.

perceptic said:
Hi,
My One M7 is stuck in a sort of boot loop. I've had boot loops on other phones when flashing etc. but this is different to any I've had before. My phone is rooted with unlocked bootloader but it is still running stock 4.3. I've never flashed a ROM on this phone. As stated, I've had boot loops on other phones where it tries to boot but doesn't fully boot before it restarts and I assume that's the same with a HTC One. The problem I have is when the phone has fully booted, it then restarts itself after around 10 seconds. It is as if the power button is stuck so it turns itself of then on again endlessly. I can fully press the power button and feel the little click so I assume it isn't stuck. I can't think of any reason it would be doing this. I assume it will just keep looping until it is out of battery.
Any help is appreciated, thanks,
Oli.
PS. I can get into recovery fine.
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I am having the same problem. Please keep this forum up to date because I would like a solution as well.
I would like to try a fcatory reset. But first I would like to find a way to back up all the files on my phone.
If anyone has an idea on how to back up all the stuff on my phone before i reset it, please let me know.

Bump!

I'm not sure if my issue is the same. But I have a very very similar one!
I am running stock kitkat, unlocked, rooted. Have been for a few months now without issue.
Yesterday my phone died, so i charged it while it was off (thought it might charge faster) for a couple hours. I figured it should be close to full but noticed it was only 20% charged. So when I turned it on, i get all the way booted, and can use the launcher for maybe 20-40 seconds before it reboots.
i do get a small amount of time to play on the phone each loop. ive noticed that im not getting or sending any sms (says 4 bars and 4g, but nothing going through).
i can also get into cwm recovery and fastboot so i have some options there.
what are my options? id like to not have to lose everything (i have titanium backups.....but they're on the sd card so a wipe would delete my backups)

I am in the same situation.
Unlocked and rooted
Stock HTC One Sense - no ROMs flashed
CWM Recovery
Kitkat 4.4.2
Sense 5.5
hboot 1.56
software number 4.18.502.7
kernel 3.4 10-ge12f77e
CID CW__001
AT&T
This all started for me back when I tried to restore a CWM nandroid backup. I was able to restore the backup but afterwards, the reboot loop started. If I factory reset the phone from recovery and cleared the cache and davlink I was able to reconfigure my phone and get it back up and running but if I reboot the phone, the reboot loop starts over again.
I can't even return it to stock since I can't S-Off using firewater or rumrunner or anything else in order to run RUU. So basically I am stuck with a phone that I have to reconfigure if I reboot it which causes the reboot loop to start.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

perceptic said:
Hi,
My One M7 is stuck in a sort of boot loop. I've had boot loops on other phones when flashing etc. but this is different to any I've had before. My phone is rooted with unlocked bootloader but it is still running stock 4.3. I've never flashed a ROM on this phone. As stated, I've had boot loops on other phones where it tries to boot but doesn't fully boot before it restarts and I assume that's the same with a HTC One. The problem I have is when the phone has fully booted, it then restarts itself after around 10 seconds. It is as if the power button is stuck so it turns itself of then on again endlessly. I can fully press the power button and feel the little click so I assume it isn't stuck. I can't think of any reason it would be doing this. I assume it will just keep looping until it is out of battery.
Any help is appreciated, thanks,
Oli.
PS. I can get into recovery fine.
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Try powering off from the bootloader or hold power + volume up till the phone shuts off. have you installed anything that would have maybe caused it ?
you could try and flash the stock recovery back to the phone and do a factory reset and then flash TWRP 2.6.3.3 and see how that goes
ibarazi said:
I am having the same problem. Please keep this forum up to date because I would like a solution as well.
I would like to try a fcatory reset. But first I would like to find a way to back up all the files on my phone.
If anyone has an idea on how to back up all the stuff on my phone before i reset it, please let me know.
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read above ..no 2 phones are the same... I need more info like you version of recovery / rom / updates installed / android version / fastboot getvar all / bootloader screen shot
VM0824 said:
I'm not sure if my issue is the same. But I have a very very similar one!
I am running stock kitkat, unlocked, rooted. Have been for a few months now without issue.
Yesterday my phone died, so i charged it while it was off (thought it might charge faster) for a couple hours. I figured it should be close to full but noticed it was only 20% charged. So when I turned it on, i get all the way booted, and can use the launcher for maybe 20-40 seconds before it reboots.
i do get a small amount of time to play on the phone each loop. ive noticed that im not getting or sending any sms (says 4 bars and 4g, but nothing going through).
i can also get into cwm recovery and fastboot so i have some options there.
what are my options? id like to not have to lose everything (i have titanium backups.....but they're on the sd card so a wipe would delete my backups)
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read above and list the same things I ask them
Houtex2k said:
I am in the same situation.
Unlocked and rooted
Stock HTC One Sense - no ROMs flashed
CWM Recovery
Kitkat 4.4.2
Sense 5.5
hboot 1.56
software number 4.18.502.7
kernel 3.4 10-ge12f77e
CID CW__001
AT&T
This all started for me back when I tried to restore a CWM nandroid backup. I was able to restore the backup but afterwards, the reboot loop started. If I factory reset the phone from recovery and cleared the cache and davlink I was able to reconfigure my phone and get it back up and running but if I reboot the phone, the reboot loop starts over again.
I can't even return it to stock since I can't S-Off using firewater or rumrunner or anything else in order to run RUU. So basically I am stuck with a phone that I have to reconfigure if I reboot it which causes the reboot loop to start.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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same here .. read above and list all the things I ask above
you can also try my guru reset posted here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775650

Well my One just fixed itself . I was JUST about to do a factory reset and, when my phone turned itself on, I heard loads of buzzing. Well, turned out it was all my notifications and as VM0824 said, signal wasn't working. I waited a couple of minutes then sighed hugely in relief haha.
Good luck to everyone else in sorting the problem out :good:
Oli.

Android 4.4.2
HTC Sense 5.5
Software number 4.18.502.7
HTC SDK API Level 5.68
Kernel 3.4.10-ge12f77e
I used cwm to factory reset. It seems to work fine now. BUT, if I restore all system and user app + data from titanium backup, then the issues comes back.
So I did another factory reset, and this time only installed missing app+data. It will take me some time to get my stuff back the way it was, but its working.
Now I have a new symptom though, apparently I have space issues???
1. Using Lucky Patcher, I ran into an issue trying to patch titanium backup. As it was doing the step involving creating the .odex, it told me it could not create the .odex or something like that. As if there was no room. I deleted some stuff from my SD card (even though it indicated 18gb free space in the data manager) and it worked.
2. I installed dropbox as my first thing since the reset since I store some apps there. I have an old version of swype (the new ones have been laggy) that I tried to install and it says "storage full or unavailable" when I click it in Dropbox.
Now the data manager indicates i have more than 18gb left....yet i cant find room for swype? I wonder if my storage is going bad? i imagine if there's write contention or i lost access to certain storage, that could cause a crash and reboot (hence the boot loop).
so how do i diagnose if there is an issue with my storage?

VM0824 said:
Android 4.4.2
HTC Sense 5.5
Software number 4.18.502.7
HTC SDK API Level 5.68
Kernel 3.4.10-ge12f77e
so how do i diagnose if there is an issue with my storage?
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so your using a patched version of titanium and your trying to restore your data with it? Dude pay for the app if it's that useful to you... piracy is not acceptable here, look for help elseware.

Info from Recovery and Fastboot Getvar all
**** TAMPERED ****
**** ULOCKED ****
M7_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RH
HBOOT-1.56.0000
RADIO-4T.24.3218.09
OpenDSP-v32.120.274.0909
OS-4.18.502.7
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Jan 28 2014,09:32:41.0
C:\ADB>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.56.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4T.24.3218.09
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 4.18.502.7
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: HT**********
(bootloader) imei: *************
(bootloader) meid :************
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000
(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3915mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-c6bbb6d4
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.048s
recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.8-m7
Now that I've done the fastboot getvar all command and rebooted the phone I am stuck in a reboot loop and will have to factory reset and start over. Any help would be appreciated and thanks for your time.

i have the same problem with my one , first in android 4.3 starting auto-restart and then after a flashing 4.4.2(4.19.401.9) the signal is out of range and imei and base band are unkonwn
i update to 4.19.401.11 and didn't change after all
i really confused , please help me , my hboot is 1.56 and i didn't s-off or unlock yet

I did a factory reset and it seemed to fix the problem with one hitch. you can never let the phone die.
i have had this running for a few weeks now and as long as i make sure the battery doesnt die, then the phone wont start boot looping. last night it died -_-
i couldnt even get a light to come on and had to use a trick from another post about holding power + volume + bright light on sensor to even get it to charge. but now that its charging and I turned it on, boot loop again.
i guess ill do another factory reset and be more careful to never let the battery die......until im eligible for an upgrade lol.