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Phone randomly reboots after 20-30 seconds. Help?

Decided to rewrite this as the problem is different now, not as bad, but a lot weirder! I can't get my head round whats up
Description of Problem
Right, so simplistically, the phone boots up, and you can use it (sort of) for about 30 seconds, before it reboots. Whilst its on, you can open apps, but there is definite issues with menu's not opening and you cant set a wallpaper, but its almost fully working. Then without any warning it just reboots, and does the same thing again.
I'm just confused at how it can boot up and almost fully work before rebooting. Failing to boot at all or bootlooping at the start animation, I can understand that, but not this.
Video of the Problem
What Caused the Issue
Its been a week or so since it first died, so I cant fully remember exact things that happened (I appreciate this will not be helpful!)
I had converted the phone to a google edition version using the tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358781
Changed the MID and CID, flashed the bootloader, recovery and RUU and the whole thing worked great.
Then I got my Xperia Z, so wanted it back to stock to be sold. Problem is I locked the bootloader and went S-ON before flashing the stock bootloader because i'm an idiot! Then obviously it wouldn't boot due to locked bootloader and custom recovery, so I tried to flash stock RUU, failed naturally due to upgraded bootloader, so I unlocked the bootloader again, flashed stock, and now this happens
Things I've Tried
Factory Reset
Flashed Stock Roms (1.28 / 2.17 / 2.24 and google edition) via both flashable zip and CWM backups - flashing in fastboot doesnt work because of signature error
Revone to re S-OFF (On HBOOT 1.54 so get a -6 error)
Maybe some other things?
Does anyone have any ideas? Any help is appreciated at the moment, don't want to wait for S-OFF on 1.54 or a 2.24 RUU as that could mean a brick on my shelf for a while.

Can't you use revone to unlock? Or did you do s-on as well?
Edit: didn't mean to thank you there - this app is killing me..
Have you tried downgrading your firmware to give you the old 1.44 bootloader?
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redbull123 said:
Can't you use revone to unlock? Or did you do s-on as well?
Edit: didn't mean to thank you there - this app is killing me..
Have you tried downgrading your firmware to give you the old 1.44 bootloader?
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After hours of playing round I managed to get it to unlock the bootloader, so I should be fine, no idea what changed to make it work, but now it does. Out of interest for the future, how can you downgrade via fastboot with locked bootloader and S-ON?

dh2311 said:
Out of interest for the future, how can you downgrade via fastboot with locked bootloader and S-ON?
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You can't downgrade when you're s-on.

iElvis said:
You can't downgrade when you're s-on.
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Thats what I thought, hence why I got a bit concerned earlier. Phones not fixed yet, stuck in a bootloop but my internet is slow for downloading firmwares

If you're unlocked, you should be able to flash a new recovery, and from there a new rom. You've probably mucked up something with the OS, so hopefully a wipe and flash should do the trick.

dh2311 said:
After hours of playing round I managed to get it to unlock the bootloader, so I should be fine, no idea what changed to make it work, but now it does. Out of interest for the future, how can you downgrade via fastboot with locked bootloader and S-ON?
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You can't - I thought you were s-off since I didn't read in your post that you went back to s-on, that's what I was asking..
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

iElvis said:
If you're unlocked, you should be able to flash a new recovery, and from there a new rom. You've probably mucked up something with the OS, so hopefully a wipe and flash should do the trick.
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The partition tables are ******, dont know why, sd card partition is unreadable and an ADB sideload still causes bootloops, this phone is really messed up and i dont know what i did
Usually I can figure the problem out. No idea now. Going to try and get the SD card back and restore an RUU from a CWM backup, then RUU it and should be fixed!
Luckily I have my trusty Xperia Z to use whilst I sort this out!

dh2311 said:
The partition tables are ******, dont know why, sd card partition is unreadable and an ADB sideload still causes bootloops, this phone is really messed up and i dont know what i did
Usually I can figure the problem out. No idea now. Going to try and get the SD card back and restore an RUU from a CWM backup, then RUU it and should be fixed!
Luckily I have my trusty Xperia Z to use whilst I sort this out!
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Did you try formatting your sdcard partition from your computer? That sounds like the issue. Likely you corrupted something with all those changes. Remember revone is a hack, so it;s not 100% reliable.

iElvis said:
Did you try formatting your sdcard partition from your computer? That sounds like the issue. Likely you corrupted something with all those changes. Remember revone is a hack, so it;s not 100% reliable.
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Genius! Dont know how i didnt think of that. Now i have an accessible SD card, just still bootlooping, itll work with the 1.28 backup and then the RUU will correct everything I've messed up

Okay, this needs a bump since this problem is weird now. The phone boots, with a number of roms, but after about 15 seconds, crashes and reboots every single time, no matter what ROM.
I have wiped system, data, cache everything, and it still does this!
Any ideas? an RUU is out of the question since i am on 2.17 and there is no RUU

dh2311 said:
Okay, this needs a bump since this problem is weird now. The phone boots, with a number of roms, but after about 15 seconds, crashes and reboots every single time, no matter what ROM.
I have wiped system, data, cache everything, and it still does this!
Any ideas? an RUU is out of the question since i am on 2.17 and there is no RUU
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Sounds like a kernel or firmware conflict. Try flashing 2.24 and see if that helps.
Edit: n/m, just saw you're s-on. I think the problem is that you've got an incompatible mix of firmwares from trying to convert to GE. You need to get s-off again somehow.

iElvis said:
Sounds like a kernel or firmware conflict. Try flashing 2.24 and see if that helps.
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Thats what I thought, tried 1.28, 2.17 and 2.24 with still no success. It doesnt make sense to me.Trying flashing CM10 as i saw someone else suggest
EDIT: same problem! :'(

dh2311 said:
Thats what I thought, tried 1.28, 2.17 and 2.24 with still no success. It doesnt make sense to me.Trying flashing CM10 as i saw someone else suggest
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Are you flashing firmware or just roms?

iElvis said:
Are you flashing firmware or just roms?
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I cant flash RUU's becuase of my firmware version (2.17) flashed 1.28 via a CWM backup and the other 2 via ARHD stock odexed roms, best I think i can get becuase theres no 2.17 or 2.24 RUU that I know of

dh2311 said:
I cant flash RUU's becuase of my firmware version (2.17) flashed 1.28 via a CWM backup and the other 2 via ARHD stock odexed roms, best I think i can get becuase theres no 2.17 or 2.24 RUU that I know of
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I don't mean RUUs, I mean one of the custom firmware packages that you flash in fastboot. But you need to be s-off to do that. You did something like this when you converted to GE.
This is one of the risks of going s-off, unfortunately. It lets you do stuff to your phone that can really screw it up.

iElvis said:
I don't mean RUUs, I mean one of the custom firmware packages that you flash in fastboot. But you need to be s-off to do that. You did something like this when you converted to GE.
This is one of the risks of going s-off, unfortunately. It lets you do stuff to your phone that can really screw it up.
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Going back to S-ON was my mistake, if this phone was still S-OFF I'd have been able to fix it. But i still cant explain why it bootloops? All I did was change the MID and CID, which are now back to stock (HTC_001) and (PN07100) but it still has the Google edition bootloader, surely if that was the issue then it wouldnt boot past the bootloader, so where does the issue lie?

dh2311 said:
Going back to S-ON was my mistake, if this phone was still S-OFF I'd have been able to fix it. But i still cant explain why it bootloops? All I did was change the MID and CID, which are now back to stock (HTC_001) and (PN07100) but it still has the Google edition bootloader, surely if that was the issue then it wouldnt boot past the bootloader, so where does the issue lie?
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It could be any number of things. You changed a lot going to GE, and with S-on, the phone is now doing all its usual security checks. Something somewhere got bollixed up. It could be the GE firmware is conflicting with your CID or MID.
One way or another, you've got to get back to s-off.

iElvis said:
It could be any number of things. You changed a lot going to GE, and with S-on, the phone is now doing all its usual security checks. Something somewhere got bollixed up. It could be the GE firmware is conflicting with your CID or MID.
One way or another, you've got to get back to s-off.
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Thats the solution. Or a 2.24 RUU from HTC could also do it. But revone requires a booting phone, which mine cant do, doesnt work out of recovery unfortunately. and moonshine is only for older versions. Tempted to just put this phone on a shelf and wait for an RUU. Carry on using my Xperia Z

Dont know if this will be of any help for sorting the issue, but this is all the hboot info from getvar all
Code:
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.54.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4A.17.3250.14
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 2.17.401.1
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: <removed for safety>
(bootloader) imei: <removed for safety>
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN071000
(bootloader) cidnum: HTC__001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3821mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-21fde4b846
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
Definitely cant seem to get this to work, upon booting i get lots of force closes like the messaging app and contacts storage. That a clue for anyone?
Or if anyone knows how to S-Off without a working F/W that would be a help but I doubt it can be done

[SOLVED] [Q] HTC Stuck on Boot Screen, here's what I did

Hi everyone,
I've spent the last 6 hours attempting various fixes from forums and I just can't &^%$ing get this.
Here's what I did.
(1) Phone got stuck in a bootloop.
(2) I did a backup in TWRP version 2.6.
(3) Factory reset.
(4) Everything worked again, no bootloop.
(5) Tried to recover from the backup in TWRP, backup failed.
(6) Phone now stuck on the HTC One screen.. won't load a thing.
I really just want things back to normal, as in stock ROM.
Some info about the phone:
S-ON
TWRP ver 2.6
rooted
can access recovery
don't need anything on the phone
I'm looking for a solution to get this phone going again.. any solution. I'd prefer to be on stock ROM. I'd love some help on this. I'm here.

post your fastboot getvar all please

2dayquestion said:
Hi everyone,
I've spent the last 6 hours attempting various fixes from forums and I just can't &^%$ing get this.
Here's what I did.
(1) Phone got stuck in a bootloop.
(2) I did a backup in TWRP version 2.6.
(3) Factory reset.
(4) Everything worked again, no bootloop.
(5) Tried to recover from the backup in TWRP, backup failed.
(6) Phone now stuck on the HTC One screen.. won't load a thing.
I really just want things back to normal, as in stock ROM.
don't need anything on the phone
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well if you don't need anything on the phone and you previously did a factory reset and the phone stopped boot-looping, why did you restored that faulty backup? just do a factory reset and you'll be good

alray said:
well if you don't need anything on the phone and you previously did a factory reset and the phone stopped boot-looping, why did you restored that faulty backup? just do a factory reset and you'll be good
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The backup contained all of the original apps. Thought I could get it rolling again, but no go. Now the phone just won't boot. Stuck on the HTC one screen, even after another factory reset.

2dayquestion said:
The backup contained all of the original apps. Thought I could get it rolling again, but no go. Now the phone just won't boot. Stuck on the HTC one screen, even after another factory reset.
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post the ouput of fastboot getvar all

Seanie280672 said:
post your fastboot getvar all please
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(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.56.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4A.23.3263.28
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: 1.00.000.0
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: ---------------
(bootloader) imei: ----------------
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000
(bootloader) cidnum: ROGER001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3855mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-4dab9d12
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

2dayquestion said:
The backup contained all of the original apps. Thought I could get it rolling again, but no go. Now the phone just won't boot. Stuck on the HTC one screen, even after another factory reset.
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factory reset again
Install Titanium backup it will restore apps & data from nandroid backup
from HTC One

yatindroid said:
factory reset again
Install Titanium backup it will restore apps & data from nandroid backup
from HTC One
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The factory reset isn't working. It still hangs. I did the initial backup through TWRP. Will Titanium backup be compatible with that backup?
Now the phone is currently locked, no OS.Should I flash another ROM?

http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_..._10-38r-1157-04l_release_351317_signed_2-exe/
Looks like your RUU to return to fully stock
You could do with seeing if you can see this number anywhere in the bootloader 4.19.631.9 usually under os- however, radio's match

Seanie280672 said:
http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_..._10-38r-1157-04l_release_351317_signed_2-exe/
Looks like your RUU to return to fully stock
You could do with seeing if you can see this number anywhere in the bootloader 4.19.631.9 usually under os- however, radio's match
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The OS is set to 1.000.000. I used some **** utility that reset it. I started clicking things... lol
One thing I'm wondering is since this phone is S-ON, will I be able to even flash a ROM? Could that be the reason that the TWRP restore function isn't working? As far as I know... SON would prevent system files from being written.. correct me if I'm wrong
..downloading that file as I write this

Seanie280672 said:
http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_..._10-38r-1157-04l_release_351317_signed_2-exe/
Looks like your RUU to return to fully stock
You could do with seeing if you can see this number anywhere in the bootloader 4.19.631.9 usually under os- however, radio's match
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The phone is the HTC One m7 through Rogers. It was recently asking me for the latest OTA update. The ROM was stock, if that helps.

2dayquestion said:
The phone is the HTC One m7 through Rogers. It was recently asking me for the latest OTA update. The ROM was stock, if that helps.
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looks like your RUU, like I said, its a Rogers RUU and contains the same radio, your version-main just threw me off a bit, leave your bootloader locked / relocked and plug into your computer in bootloader mode, then run the RUU on your computer, follow the instructions, make sure your battery is 50% or more before running.
regarding your other question, you can flash custom roms whilst s-on, you just have to make sure your bootloader is unlocked, s-on is not there to protect system files, its there to protect you from messing with the HBOOT and radio's etc which will brick the phone if done wrong, you cant brick by flashing rom's.

Seanie280672 said:
looks like your RUU, like I said, its a Rogers RUU and contains the same radio, your version-main just threw me off a bit, leave your bootloader locked / relocked and plug into your computer in bootloader mode, then run the RUU on your computer, follow the instructions, make sure your battery is 50% or more before running.
regarding your other question, you can flash custom roms whilst s-on, you just have to make sure your bootloader is unlocked, s-on is not there to protect system files, its there to protect you from messing with the HBOOT and radio's etc which will brick the phone if done wrong, you cant brick by flashing rom's.
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Thanks a lot for that link. I found an RUU file about 7 hours ago, but it was in .zip format, not .exe like the link you provided me. This made it damn easy. I relocked the bootloader, installed, now it's all great. Thanks a lot. Can I thumbs up you, or do anything in return?

2dayquestion said:
Thanks a lot for that link. I found an RUU file about 7 hours ago, but it was in .zip format, not .exe like the link you provided me. This made it damn easy. I relocked the bootloader, installed, now it's all great. Thanks a lot. Can I thumbs up you, or do anything in return?
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Just hit the thanks button a couple of times is plenty.
The Zip would of worked too, you just have to flash it in a special kinda way.
Glad its all working now, could you edit your title in your first post to SOLVED now please.

Seanie280672 said:
Just hit the thanks button a couple of times is plenty.
The Zip would of worked too, you just have to flash it in a special kinda way.
Glad its all working now, could you edit your title in your first post to SOLVED now please.
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I'm guessing a side-load? I really like the install wizard, the RUU method is pretty ingenious. One quick question for you: It's asking me for a system update, OTA, that's not installing after I download it. I unlocked the bootloader through HTC dev using the binary they e-mail you. Would I have to unroot? Any tips on what I could do?
[edit: for some reason, OTA worked] thanks a lot for your help and especially for that magical link. cheers

2dayquestion said:
I'm guessing a side-load? I really like the install wizard, the RUU method is pretty ingenious. One quick question for you: It's asking me for a system update, OTA, that's not installing after I download it. I unlocked the bootloader through HTC dev using the binary they e-mail you. Would I have to unroot? Any tips on what I could do?
[edit: for some reason, OTA worked] thanks a lot for your help and especially for that magical link. cheers
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No, you have to put your phone in fastbootRUU mode and then flash the zip from your computer using fastboot commands.
Glad the OTA worked in the end, but in future when installing OTA's just make sure your bootloader is locked / relocked first.

Seanie280672 said:
No, you have to put your phone in fastbootRUU mode and then flash the zip from your computer using fastboot commands.
Glad the OTA worked in the end, but in future when installing OTA's just make sure your bootloader is locked / relocked first.
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That may have been the issue. Thanks for your time. Another 'thanks' is in order. Cheers

[Q] HTC One m7 Sprint no radio or main version after ROM install.

So I feel like I've pretty much shat on my myself here so now I'm finally coming for specific help.
Brand New Sprint HTC one m7 from the store after a purple camera replacement.
I unlock the bootloader, flash recovery. Still S-ON Somewhere along the way I can't get signal after I install the new ROM ( I assume from the wipe)
Try to manually input APN after I had to install an apk because APN wasn't a choice. Doesn't save.
Try installing a different rom. Either I can get into the rom and no signal or it will install and reboot after 5 min into the OS.
Restore from twrp recovery I moved to my PC before I did anything. Still nothing. possible cycling reboot.
Now here's the tricky part. (for me anyway)
So going into fasboot and inputting "getvar all" it returns with a version-main: none and version-baseband: N/A. Now trying to RUU the situation. With the windows program it gives me an error and when I "fastboot flash zip firmware.zip" it continually fails.
it says my CID is SPCS_001
RUUs i've tried:
1.29.651.10
1.29.651.7
4.06.651.4
I'm not exactly sure which one I'm meant to be using from this point because they all fail. I've them both locked and unlocked. And yes Inputted the flash command multiple times for each file.

what software version is currently installed in the phone? Post full pnone info
you must RUU the same version to get back to stock and eturn baseband if you are s-on.
I have had same situation. I was on 5.03.651.3. And i can only flash 5.03.651.30or newer (5.05.651.2), BUT NOT OLDER.
relock bootloader, enter fastboot usb, run AruWizard and wait. it may look loke process hangs while flashing, but just wait and be quiet. it can take 10-20 minutes

nick_fc said:
what software version is currently installed in the phone? Post full pnone info
you must RUU the same version to get back to stock and eturn baseband if you are s-on.
I have had same situation. I was on 5.03.651.3. And i can only flash 5.03.651.30or newer (5.05.651.2), BUT NOT OLDER.
relock bootloader, enter fastboot usb, run AruWizard and wait. it may look loke process hangs while flashing, but just wait and be quiet. it can take 10-20 minutes
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So here's my problem now. The newest firmware I can find 5.05.651.2 the exe file from the HTC site loads the install wizard and nothing happens or the zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795856 the ARUwizard file gives me the side by side error. for some reason even after repairing c++ redistributable it still pops up the error. flashing the firmware portion also from the above thread fails locked and unlocked.

Synesthesis said:
So here's my problem now. The newest firmware I can find 5.05.651.2 the exe file from the HTC site loads the install wizard and nothing happens or the zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795856 the ARUwizard file gives me the side by side error. for some reason even after repairing c++ redistributable it still pops up the error. flashing the firmware portion also from the above thread fails locked and unlocked.
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nobody can help you if you will not post full detailed phone info and detailed error description

Synesthesis said:
So here's my problem now. The newest firmware I can find 5.05.651.2 the exe file from the HTC site loads the install wizard and nothing happens or the zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795856 the ARUwizard file gives me the side by side error. for some reason even after repairing c++ redistributable it still pops up the error. flashing the firmware portion also from the above thread fails locked and unlocked.
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We still have no idea what version your phone is ... if it just come back from servicing i would guess the updated it for you
What PC are you running the RUU from (OS / age of PC) ? what is the error you get when flashing just the firmware ?

Synesthesis said:
So I feel like I've pretty much shat on my myself here so now I'm finally coming for specific help.
Brand New Sprint HTC one m7 from the store after a purple camera replacement.
I unlock the bootloader, flash recovery. Still S-ON Somewhere along the way I can't get signal after I install the new ROM ( I assume from the wipe)
Try to manually input APN after I had to install an apk because APN wasn't a choice. Doesn't save.
Try installing a different rom. Either I can get into the rom and no signal or it will install and reboot after 5 min into the OS.
Restore from twrp recovery I moved to my PC before I did anything. Still nothing. possible cycling reboot.
Now here's the tricky part. (for me anyway)
So going into fasboot and inputting "getvar all" it returns with a version-main: none and version-baseband: N/A. Now trying to RUU the situation. With the windows program it gives me an error and when I "fastboot flash zip firmware.zip" it continually fails.
it says my CID is SPCS_001
RUUs i've tried:
1.29.651.10
1.29.651.7
4.06.651.4
I'm not exactly sure which one I'm meant to be using from this point because they all fail. I've them both locked and unlocked. And yes Inputted the flash command multiple times for each file.
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post your getvar all here, remove your imei and serial number before posting.
No one can help you until we know exactly what firmware you already have on the device? And what Operating system you have on your pc? What recovery your using? and what Rom you tried to flash?
The side by side error can be addressed by installing a different or updated version of Microsoft c++ and your version main is missing because you used a version of TWRP recovery with the misc partition bug. But that's all I can tell you based on what you've shared already.

Danny201281 said:
post your getvar all here, remove your imei and serial number before posting.
No one can help you until we know exactly what firmware you already have on the device? And what Operating system you have on your pc? What recovery your using? and what Rom you tried to flash?
The side by side error can be addressed by installing a different or updated version of Microsoft c++ and your version main is missing because you used a version of TWRP recovery with the misc partition bug. But that's all I can tell you based on what you've shared already.
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Ok to answer all the burning questions:
On the computer front I'm using a macbook pro with windows 7 Ultimate installed under bootcamp.
The phone is brand new. If it was serviced I'm not aware of it.
Recovery I'm currently using is TWRP 2.8.1.0. I was using 2.7 because I read a feint whisper in some other rom thread that the apn issue might be resolved that way. However since I was having intermittent OS cycling on reinstall to not have a mtp function during mount was frightening.
The first rom I tried to flash was ARHD 83.1 in an attempt to possibly s-off my device with firewater. Never got passed the rom flashing.
and for the big reveal:
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.57.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: N/A
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main:
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) product: m7_wls
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0720000
(bootloader) cidnum: SPCS_001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4181mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-0e1af350
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
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Synesthesis said:
Ok to answer all the burning questions:
On the computer front I'm using a macbook pro with windows 7 Ultimate installed under bootcamp.
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meh! I've no experiance with Mac, I don't know for sure but running Windows I assume as a VM could cause problems using the ruu.
The phone is brand new. If it was serviced I'm not aware of it.
Recovery I'm currently using is TWRP 2.8.1.0. I was using 2.7 because I read a feint whisper in some other rom thread that the apn issue might be resolved that way. However since I was having intermittent OS cycling on reinstall to not have a mtp function during mount was frightening.
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Are you sure you flashed the Sprint compatible TWRP recovery. You can download them here http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/m7wls
The first rom I tried to flash was ARHD 83.1 in an attempt to possibly s-off my device with firewater. Never got passed the rom flashing
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And here is what I believe is the root of your problem (hehe pun intended ) This Rom is definitely not Sprint compatible. Flashing this Rom would have messed up your partitions. It's for International Brand HTC one.
If your sure your recovery is the Sprint version. You probably just need to Format the device. With "Format Data" in TWRP then flash Sprint compatible Rom. Or if you think you need to, flash a TWRP from the above link.
Based on the fact your on Hboot 1.57 the latest Sprint RUU should work for you. But because your s-on you will need to relock your bootloader in order to flash it. Assuming you can get round the side by side error. But I think a proper Windows pc is whats required there. :good:
The Sprint Section of the forums here http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-htc-one is where you'll find roms for your phone. In Android Development and Original Android Development

Danny201281 said:
meh! I've no experiance with Mac, I don't know for sure but running Windows I assume as a VM could cause problems using the ruu.
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bootcamp is a separate install. not a virtual machine
And here is what I believe is the root of your problem (hehe pun intended ) This Rom is definitely not Sprint compatible. Flashing this Rom would have messed up your partitions. It's for International Brand HTC one.
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Yeah I realized that later but I even tried installing the Nocturnal Lollipop rom, the badboyz sense 6 rom which was what was on my last HTC one, viper, etc. with no good.
If your sure your recovery is the Sprint version. You probably just need to Format the device. With "Format Data" in TWRP then flash Sprint compatible Rom. Or if you think you need to, flash a TWRP from the above link.
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going to try this part now. OK reformatted. so flashing 5.03.651.3 and 5.05.651.2 firmware full and modified gives me this:
sending 'zip' (25541 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.952s]
writing 'zip'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 5.176s
I am locked again and in rebootRUU

Synesthesis said:
bootcamp is a separate install. not a virtual machine
Yeah I realized that later but I even tried installing the Nocturnal Lollipop rom, the badboyz sense 6 rom which was what was on my last HTC one, viper, etc. with no good.
going to try this part now. OK reformatted. so flashing 5.03.651.3 and 5.05.651.2 firmware full and modified gives me this:
sending 'zip' (25541 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.952s]
writing 'zip'...
(bootloader) signature checking...
FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 5.176s
I am locked again and in rebootRUU
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Just flash a Sprint Rom with TWRP. The format will have sorted your partitions out. It should except a Sprint compatible Rom now.

Danny201281 said:
Just flash a Sprint Rom with TWRP. The format will have sorted your partitions out. It should except a Sprint compatible Rom now.
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OK so I finally got to another computer last night. (which is a hassle since I travel all the time) and ran the ARUwizard that didn't work on my computer. THANK THANK THANK YOU YOU YOU.
And we're up and running with 5.03.651.3
So Now I'm back to square one. After the RUU it did removed the tampered flag which I thought was cool. But now I want to tamper again. :laugh:
So from this point any sprint based rom should be ok right? I feel like all this wasn't as hard when I was romstalling a year ago with my original phone or with the EVO.
Also what's this about the twrp partition error? What version of the recovery should I be using? I had been using CWM on the old phone because CM11 stopped installing correctly after a certain version of TWRP.

Synesthesis said:
OK so I finally got to another computer last night. (which is a hassle since I travel all the time) and ran the ARUwizard that didn't work on my computer. THANK THANK THANK YOU YOU YOU.
And we're up and running with 5.03.651.3
So Now I'm back to square one. After the RUU it did removed the tampered flag which I thought was cool. But now I want to tamper again. [emoji23]
So from this point any sprint based rom should be ok right? I feel like all this wasn't as hard when I was romstalling a year ago with my original phone or with the EVO.
Also what's this about the twrp partition error? What version of the recovery should I be using? I had been using CWM on the old phone because CM11 stopped installing correctly after a certain version of TWRP.
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Ok cool, nice to hear your back up
You should be fine to flash any Sprint Compatible Rom also recovery must be Sprint Compatible. The reason is that Sprint HTC one's have a different partition layout the the International variants, so anything you flash must be specifically for your Sprint phone. Basically anything you find in the Sprint forums I linked previously should be fine :good:
The TWRP problem is that some version (unfortunately I don't know exactly which Sprint version) have a bug that inadvertently wipes the OS version information from the misc partitions. This is only a cosmetic bug and shouldn't cause any problems with your device but if your a little ocd like myself you'll preffer to avoid it. It can be rectified by flashing firmware.
For the International HTC One this happens with 2.7.x.x versions of TWRP with 2.7.1.1 being the worst offender. Best advice I can give is check in the Sprint forums use the search box to search for "blank os" or "blank version main" that should turn up something or ask your fellow Sprint users in the Sprint Q&A forums, they should be able to give you more direct advice on what versions to avoid

Softbrick Going From CM12.1 to Stock

Hey everyone. I read a lot of posts and tutorials on here (love it) and I've done what I can to try and fix my issue, but I've hit a wall. Even a nudge in the right direction would be amazing. I am working with an AT&T HTC One M7 variant (CWS 001). Here are some relevant settings as to where I am now (below them is the progress of why they are what they are):
HBOOT 1.56
S-ON
Bootloader unlocked
TWRP v2.8.7.0 installed
SuperSU BETA 2.94
Android 4.1.2
Software 1.26.502.15
I recently flashed CM12.1 onto my HTC One M7. Prior to doing so, I did an
Code:
adb backup
(which I now assume I should have done a backup through TWRP?). I wanted to go back to official Android, so I did an
Code:
adb restore
to no avail. This worked for me in the past, so either I'm not sure whether it was wrong to begin with, or something went wrong in general. Either way, that's moot point.
Since that failed, I settled on the method laid out at http://www.htc1guru.com/downloads/stock-rom-downloads/ to restore to stock... Believing that it would restore to stock ROM, remove custom recovery and root, and I would be able to take OTA updates and start fresh-ish.
Long story short, I followed the video and ended up with software version "1.26.502.12" as expected... No touch controls, used a mouse to receive OTA update via WiFi. Somewhere along the process of installing the update, I got a message that it failed, was not able to capture the error, and the device rebooted. As a result of that failure, the software was updated to "1.26.502.15" but the WiFi is now broken... Of course meaning no OTA update. Since the touch controls do not work, I can't use the USB internet pass-through, so my device is relegated to mobile data.
I attempted to relock the bootloader (after affirming that the recovery looked to be stock) and run an RUU to update the phone (also unrooted at this point). I started with the official ROM listed on the HTC website, but I get a 155 error (which, as far as I've been able to find, should not be getting as the bootloader was relocked). I tried an RUU from htc1guru for 1.26.502.15, resulting in the same error. So all I can tell is that something is causing any RUU to fail (would there be logs somewhere?)
At this point I went "eff it, I should be able to get back to CM12.1 at least." So I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP v2.8.7.0, and initially installed SuperSU BETA 2.94. TWRP fails each time trying to flash CM12.1 now, however. It now also fails to flash the Guru reset from above.
And that now brings me to today... Basically at a complete loss as to next steps. Clearly I've bungled the whole thing and either taken a misstep or (more likely) a bunch of missteps. My device is successfully rooted, as I was able to download Flashify via the Play Store, open it, and see that it was granted permissions. I'm thinking that my next step might be to try flashing a stock recovery from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545227 via Flashify and seeing if that works.
If it doesn't... Man, I could really use the help! Otherwise, I'm using a Lumia 635 indefinitely...

scirto said:
Hey everyone. I read a lot of posts and tutorials on here (love it) and I've done what I can to try and fix my issue, but I've hit a wall. Even a nudge in the right direction would be amazing. I am working with an AT&T HTC One M7 variant (CWS 001). Here are some relevant settings as to where I am now (below them is the progress of why they are what they are):
HBOOT 1.56
S-ON
Bootloader unlocked
TWRP v2.8.7.0 installed
SuperSU BETA 2.94
Android 4.1.2
Software 1.26.502.15
I recently flashed CM12.1 onto my HTC One M7. Prior to doing so, I did an
Code:
adb backup
(which I now assume I should have done a backup through TWRP?). I wanted to go back to official Android, so I did an
Code:
adb restore
to no avail. This worked for me in the past, so either I'm not sure whether it was wrong to begin with, or something went wrong in general. Either way, that's moot point.
Since that failed, I settled on the method laid out at http://www.htc1guru.com/downloads/stock-rom-downloads/ to restore to stock... Believing that it would restore to stock ROM, remove custom recovery and root, and I would be able to take OTA updates and start fresh-ish.
Long story short, I followed the video and ended up with software version "1.26.502.12" as expected... No touch controls, used a mouse to receive OTA update via WiFi. Somewhere along the process of installing the update, I got a message that it failed, was not able to capture the error, and the device rebooted. As a result of that failure, the software was updated to "1.26.502.15" but the WiFi is now broken... Of course meaning no OTA update. Since the touch controls do not work, I can't use the USB internet pass-through, so my device is relegated to mobile data.
I attempted to relock the bootloader (after affirming that the recovery looked to be stock) and run an RUU to update the phone (also unrooted at this point). I started with the official ROM listed on the HTC website, but I get a 155 error (which, as far as I've been able to find, should not be getting as the bootloader was relocked). I tried an RUU from htc1guru for 1.26.502.15, resulting in the same error. So all I can tell is that something is causing any RUU to fail (would there be logs somewhere?)
At this point I went "eff it, I should be able to get back to CM12.1 at least." So I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP v2.8.7.0, and initially installed SuperSU BETA 2.94. TWRP fails each time trying to flash CM12.1 now, however. It now also fails to flash the Guru reset from above.
And that now brings me to today... Basically at a complete loss as to next steps. Clearly I've bungled the whole thing and either taken a misstep or (more likely) a bunch of missteps. My device is successfully rooted, as I was able to download Flashify via the Play Store, open it, and see that it was granted permissions. I'm thinking that my next step might be to try flashing a stock recovery from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545227 via Flashify and seeing if that works.
If it doesn't... Man, I could really use the help! Otherwise, I'm using a Lumia 635 indefinitely...
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Ignore my last paragraph. I completely misread what that file was providing (stock recovery, duh, of course that's what it's providing. Not what I need).

Also, if this helps:
(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: HT344W907896
(bootloader) imei: 354439054277373
(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: 3849mV
(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

scirto said:
Also, if this helps:
(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: HT344W907896
(bootloader) imei: 354439054277373
(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: 3849mV
(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
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Hey, just picked up your post in the Unbrick thread. So basically your problem started when you tried to take OTA updates with a Stock rom older than your current firmware.
You can't downgrade firmware while s-on. So when the OTA tried to flash the firmware it failed
The simplest way to get you back to a working stock device will be to use an ruu. You can use this one here http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_...9_10-26-1718-01l_release_356565_signed_2-exe/
Download it and put it on your pc desktop. Then reboot your device to the bootloader and connect fastboot usb. Because your s-on we need to relock the bootloader or the flash will fail so enter these commands.
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Once the bootloader reboots check it's relocked and in fastboot usb mode then launch the ruu .exe from your desktop. Follow the instructions on your pc. When the flash is complete your device should be back to stock and boot right up.
Then you can take OTA updates safely before unlocking your bootloader again :good:
Sent from my M7 ARHD 84-Kitkat

Danny201281 said:
Hey, just picked up your post in the Unbrick thread. So basically your problem started when you tried to take OTA updates with a Stock rom older than your current firmware.
You can't downgrade firmware while s-on. So when the OTA tried to flash the firmware it failed
The simplest way to get you back to a working stock device will be to use an ruu. You can use this one here http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_...9_10-26-1718-01l_release_356565_signed_2-exe/
Download it and put it on your pc desktop. Then reboot your device to the bootloader and connect fastboot usb. Because your s-on we need to relock the bootloader or the flash will fail so enter these commands.
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Once the bootloader reboots check it's relocked and in fastboot usb mode then launch the ruu .exe from your desktop. Follow the instructions on your pc. When the flash is complete your device should be back to stock and boot right up.
Then you can take OTA updates safely before unlocking your bootloader again :good:
Sent from my M7 ARHD 84-Kitkat
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First off, just want to say thanks for the response! I'll give it a shot with a different RUU, but I do want to mention that I have tried this process (albeit different RUU) and it failed.
So I first tried with the most recent RUU officially provided by HTC. It failed, which led me research to discover that I needed to relock the bootloader (received error code 155). So I relocked the bootloader, tried the same RUU again but received the same error code. So I have tried this with no success so far, but I will try again with the RUU you linked.
Also, I think I found where the logs get dumped from the RUU process so I will link my progress with the output in the event it does fail. Right now, before I try it, I will mention that I am now running software 1.26.502.10 (restored from a nandroid backup), stock recovery, but I am rooted. Does the RUU remove the root, or will it leave it and then I need to unroot to OTA update?
Anyways, more to come shortly...
EDIT: I will also note that my last attempt with an RUU was with my phone starting on the home screen. Not sure if starting in bootloader/fastboot is better or worse or makes no difference? I'll try that too

scirto said:
First off, just want to say thanks for the response! I'll give it a shot with a different RUU, but I do want to mention that I have tried this process (albeit different RUU) and it failed.
So I first tried with the most recent RUU officially provided by HTC. It failed, which led me research to discover that I needed to relock the bootloader (received error code 155). So I relocked the bootloader, tried the same RUU again but received the same error code. So I have tried this with no success so far, but I will try again with the RUU you linked.
Also, I think I found where the logs get dumped from the RUU process so I will link my progress with the output in the event it does fail. Right now, before I try it, I will mention that I am now running software 1.26.502.10 (restored from a nandroid backup), stock recovery, but I am rooted. Does the RUU remove the root, or will it leave it and then I need to unroot to OTA update?
Anyways, more to come shortly...
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The problem is because your s-on. The way firmware is flashed is very strict with s-on.
You must Relock the bootloader.
You can only use firmware or ruu's that match your MiD and CiD. And they must be signed by HTC.
You can only flash a signed ruu or firmware that is the same as your current version or one update above.
So you see the earlier ruu will fail because it's to old and classed as a downgrade. There for can't be flashed with s-on even while relocked.
The latest ruu is lollipop 7.x.502.xx. So to flash it your device must be on at least 6.x.502.xx. Or the flash will fail. As your device is on 4.x.502.x you need the ruu I linked in my earlier instructions or a 5.x.502.xx which to the best of my knowledge does not exist :good: It should work as long ad you Relock your bootloader. Let me know how it goes
Sent from my SM-T230 using Tapatalk

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Danny201281 said:
The problem is because your s-on. The way firmware is flashed is very strict with s-on.
You must Relock the bootloader.
You can only use firmware or ruu's that match your MiD and CiD. And they must be signed by HTC.
You can only flash a signed ruu or firmware that is the same as your current version or one update above.
So you see the earlier ruu will fail because it's to old and classed as a downgrade. There for can't be flashed with s-on even while relocked.
The latest ruu is lollipop 7.x.502.xx. So to flash it your device must be on at least 6.x.502.xx. Or the flash will fail. As your device is on 4.x.502.x you need the ruu I linked in my earlier instructions or a 5.x.502.xx which to the best of my knowledge does not exist :good: It should work as long ad you Relock your bootloader. Let me know how it goes
Sent from my SM-T230 using Tapatalk
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That all makes sense to me and why I was getting two failed RUU's before... One was too old, one was too new. As I type this, I just got a message saying that the ROM update was successful so let's see how it goes from here... Other than that, it had appeared I was following steps for the RUU's perfectly, hence my confusion!
Touch screen ability is back (I knew the old version I was on would cause issues, as warned by htc1guru) and I'm walking through the device setup now... Will update when I get to the OTA process.
Suffice to say, looking good so far and at the very least grateful to be on a DIFFERENT step than I was before!

scirto said:
That all makes sense to me and why I was getting two failed RUU's before... One was too old, one was too new. As I type this, I just got a message saying that the ROM update was successful so let's see how it goes from here... Other than that, it had appeared I was following steps for the RUU's perfectly, hence my confusion!
Touch screen ability is back (I knew the old version I was on would cause issues, as warned by htc1guru) and I'm walking through the device setup now... Will update when I get to the OTA process.
Suffice to say, looking good so far and at the very least grateful to be on a DIFFERENT step than I was before!
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Good to know. Glad you got it sorted. At least you can start a fresh if nothing else. :good:
Sent from my M7 ARHD 84-Kitkat

Danny201281 said:
Good to know. Glad you got it sorted. At least you can start a fresh if nothing else. :good:
Sent from my M7 ARHD 84-Kitkat
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Exactly... Might be the software developer in me, but I feel a huge sense of relief as long as I start to see something different happening. OTA is downloading, no root is detected, so the process should complete successfully. Major kudos to you, my friend.

So I was able to accept the OTA update to get up to 4.4.2 and software 5.something.something and am currently updating further... At this point, I think I'm comfortable in saying this issue is resolved. Thanks for the help!!!

scirto said:
So I was able to accept the OTA update to get up to 4.4.2 and software 5.something.something and am currently updating further... At this point, I think I'm comfortable in saying this issue is resolved. Thanks for the help!!!
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Your Welcome. Enjoy
Sent from my SM-T230 using Tapatalk

Please help me revive this sick m7

Hi Guys,
Bought an m7 cheap on ebay. I don't know anything about the history, except to say it's been fiddled with...
It powers up but it won't boot up; it hangs on the HTC logo.
Bootloader's unlocked, it's been rooted... S-ON
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.57.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4A.21.3263.04
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main:
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: ** edited out **
(bootloader) imei: ** edited out **
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0710000
(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4297mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-e47fb74b
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
I'm thinking I should try and take it back to stock, but I don't know where I should go from here and I'm worried I might screw it up.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance!

Go to RUU mode and flash an RUU. There's a lot of threads explaining how to go to back to stock on this forum. If it still doesn't work, it might be an internal issue like the motherboard.

Can someone please recommend an RUU to go to... I'm just worried if I use the wrong one it will cause more issues. I thought RUUs were dependent on the CID num and as that's been changed to allow custom roms... I'd be happy taking it back to a plain old vanilla HTC / Google - just something to get it back alive.
Thanks

Should also add I can't get s-off... adb devices doesn't show anything... I'm guessing usb debugging wasn't set up

mdb said:
Can someone please recommend an RUU to go to... I'm just worried if I use the wrong one it will cause more issues. I thought RUUs were dependent on the CID num and as that's been changed to allow custom roms... I'd be happy taking it back to a plain old vanilla HTC / Google - just something to get it back alive.
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There is no ruu we can recommend because your version-main is blank the fact that you also have superCID doesn't help identifying which ruu you'll need to use.
mdb said:
Should also add I can't get s-off... adb devices doesn't show anything... I'm guessing usb debugging wasn't set up
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You'll have to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery (twrp preferred), flash a rom and use your phone like that or, if you want, from there you will be able to achieve s-off again and convert your phone to wherever you want (Stock Sense or stock GPE) by flashing a RUU.

alray said:
There is no ruu we can recommend because your version-main is blank the fact that you also have superCID doesn't help identifying which ruu you'll need to use.
You'll have to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery (twrp preferred), flash a rom and use your phone like that or, if you want, from there you will be able to achieve s-off again and convert your phone to wherever you want (Stock Sense or stock GPE) by flashing a RUU.
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Thanks so much for this... I've been learning more all day (traditionally an iOS guy)...
Am I right in thinking I would need to sideload a custom rom through twrp and then install it? If so, I'm having an issue getting my laptop to talk to the phone - "adb devices" is pretty flakey to say the least, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't... I've read various things about Windows 8 and that adb works best on Windows 7, can you please confirm I'm on the right track here. I'd like to put the Viper rom on it.
Thanks again

In order to flash custom recovery you need to be booted to bootloader menu, and use fastboot commands. If you flash TWRP 2.8.6.0 or later, there's no need to sideload a ROM because newer TWRP recoveries have MTP option, so you use that. Try to go to bootloader, connect your phone to your laptop or PC, and issue a command fastboot devices. If it shows your phone, you're good to go

Thanks donkeyking1...
I got it working eventually, I needed to install new drivers for Windows 8 then adb started behaving properly. I ended up pushing the Viper ROM to the phone... The phone's alive now but currently it has no IMEI, baseband or OS - they're all blank. I'm wondering if it's because I've installed Viper 9 without upgrading the firmware first? My next goals are to try and S-OFF the device so I can install a stock rom, at which point hopefully I'll get OTA updates and then go back to Viper 9 - it looks great, I just can't use it! - no phone signal!
Does that sound like the right approach? I'm trying to flash different custom roms to hopefully find one that works with rumrunner. I've read that some folks have managed to S-OFF on hboot 1.57 with rumrunner, but it's picky on the rom that's installed. It doesn't work on Viper 9...
If anyone can add any help it would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance

mdb said:
Thanks donkeyking1...
I got it working eventually, I needed to install new drivers for Windows 8 then adb started behaving properly. I ended up pushing the Viper ROM to the phone... The phone's alive now but currently it has no IMEI, baseband or OS - they're all blank. I'm wondering if it's because I've installed Viper 9 without upgrading the firmware first? My next goals are to try and S-OFF the device so I can install a stock rom, at which point hopefully I'll get OTA updates and then go back to Viper 9 - it looks great, I just can't use it! - no phone signal!
Does that sound like the right approach? I'm trying to flash different custom roms to hopefully find one that works with rumrunner. I've read that some folks have managed to S-OFF on hboot 1.57 with rumrunner, but it's picky on the rom that's installed. It doesn't work on Viper 9...
If anyone can add any help it would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance
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flash the 7.19.401.2 firmware and then the 7.19.401.2 RUU. If you still have imei problem after that, its most likely an hardware defect.
relock your bootloader if not already locked or re-locked:
Code:
fastboot oem lock
Code:
fastboot orm rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip M7_UL_Firmware_7.19.401.2.zip
fastbppt flash zip M7_UL_Firmware_7.19.401.2.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot oem rebootRUU
htc_fastboot flash zip PN07IMG_M7_UL_L50_SENSE60_MR_HTC_Europe_7.19.401.2_Radio_4T.35.3218.16_10.33Q.1718.01L_release_421790_signed.zip
fastboot reboot
*** use htc_fastboot.exe for flashing the ruu (linked below). Save all files in the same folder where you already have fastboot.exe and adb.exe on your computer.
M7_UL_Firmware_7.19.401.2.zip
PN07IMG_M7_UL_L50_SENSE60_MR_HTC_Europe_7.19.401.2_Radio_4T.35.3218.16_10.33Q.1718.01L_release_421790_signed.zip
htc_fastboot.exe

Alray, just curious (still learning ), how do you know from the info I've given you that the firmware / RUU you've suggested is one to fix the issues - I've struggled to understand this the past few days - thanks!

mdb said:
Alray, just curious (still learning ), how do you know from the info I've given you that the firmware / RUU you've suggested is one to fix the issues - I've struggled to understand this the past few days - thanks!
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To flash a ruu on a s-on phone there are many prerequisites:
The RUU must match your MID: 7.19.401.2 is for PN0710000
The RUU must match your CID: You have superCID so its not a problem.
The RUU must be the same version or an upgrade from your actual version, we don't know your actual version because of your blank versio-main but you have 1.57 hboot which suggest a 6.xx.xxx.x version. So 7.19.401.2 should be an upgrade.
The bootloader must be locked or re-locked.
There is no risk trying it, the worst that can happen is that the phone won't accept the ruu and nothing will be flashed.

mdb said:
Alray, just curious (still learning ), how do you know from the info I've given you that the firmware / RUU you've suggested is one to fix the issues - I've struggled to understand this the past few days - thanks!
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Super CID + your MID. WWE firmware should work just fine. Right @alray?

donkeykong1 said:
Super CID + your MID. WWE firmware should work just fine. Right @alray?
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Well, thanks so much for your help guys, but alas it seems the phone is k-put... Flashed the firmware and the rom no problem.... but it still shows no IMEI / IMEI SV / IMSI and it can't recognise the phone number - I'm guessing it can't read the sim. It does show the OS and IMEI in the bootloader, but once booted it's a no go.

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Well, thanks so much for your help guys, but alas it seems the phone is k-put... Flashed the firmware and the rom no problem.... but it still shows no IMEI / IMEI SV / IMSI and it can't recognise the phone number - I'm guessing it can't read the sim. It does show the OS and IMEI in the bootloader, but once booted it's a no go.
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Try to bend your sim tray just a little bit. Maybe your sim card is not reaching the contacts inside the phone. Or put a piece of paper under the sim and see what happens

Thanks donkeykong1, I've tried but it's not working... The fact the IMEI / IMEI SV and baseband are unknown though... they're not sim related...
It does show the baseband and IMEI in fastboot getvar all though?...

There were a lot of people with that same issue, and their phones worked fine, so I doubt it has anything to do with your sim. Your sim works in another phone?

Yeah, the sim's fine. @alray said it's likely a hardware issue if the firmware / rom didn't repair the IMEI issue, and the other threads I've looked at with the same issue are all saying the motherboard's faulty.

Although I am baffled as to why it is showing the IMEI / baseband in the bootloader, in fastboot etc. but not once the phone has booted up?...
I read on another thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253514) that maybe flashing a kernal and/or radio might solve it?
Just wondering whether I should try flashing an official HTC rom? I've been in touch with the guy I got it off and he said it was originally on Orange, UK:
http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads > One M7 / v5.0.2 > Find Files : Page 6
One M7 / Orange / UK / CRC / 3.4.10 / v5.0.2 / 539.0 MB / 7.19.61.10
Was also thinking of...
http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads > One M7 / v5.0.2 > Find Files : Page 1
One M7 / HTC / EU / MR 3 / 3.4.10 / v5.0.2 / 486.0 MB / 7.19.401.22
If I did that would I need to update the firmware first like you advised originally @alray?
If I know I can revive the IMEI etc. I'll be happy to go ahead and pay to S-OFF
Thanks in advance

You need a kernel to match your firmware. If you're on 7.19.401.2, then you need 7.19.401.2 kernel. I can give you boot.img, but I don't have the whole zip, with modules. Then again, if your phone boots fine, maybe boot.img will help. I'd [email protected] to confirm my thoughts though. He's much more into this than I am