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[Q] HTC One M7 EE/T-Mobile/Orange UK Semi Bricked

All,
I am pulling my hair out, I decided to root my phone today so I could delete the default APN's, I have tried CWM and also TWRP.
All was fine, as soon as I installed Busybox something went horribly wrong, my phone will not boot up and just displays the "HTC Logo" I can get to the boot menu and boot to either CWM or TWRP. However there is nothing I can do within there, I cannot find a RUU for my model (CID is Orange) I have found a nandroid backup but CWM/TWRP refuses to see it via OTG and I have tried lots of USB Sticks.
I really do not know what to do next, I cannot turn S-OFF as HBOOT is 1.54
What can I do, I have read thread after thread.
Is there a default recovery.img or one for my carrier as I cannot find it.
Many thanks,
Dale

Managed to restore a nandroid, but I have no touch screen!
Tried clearing cache etc, have currently got a mouse plugged in to it to control it, there is an OTA available so going to try that.

DaleR said:
Managed to restore a nandroid, but I have no touch screen!
Tried clearing cache etc, have currently got a mouse plugged in to it to control it, there is an OTA available so going to try that.
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Don't try it with a custom recovery. You'll need to relock your bootloader too.
No touchscreen is a firmware issue. The nandroid you restored will be an old one not compatible with the latest firmware..
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redbull123 said:
Don't try it with a custom recovery. You'll need to relock your bootloader too.
No touchscreen is a firmware issue. The nandroid you restored will be an old one not compatible with the latest firmware..
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
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Thank you for the reply
I've re-locked the bootloader.
What do I do next?, I cannot find a later nandroid backup anywhere

DaleR said:
Thank you for the reply
I've re-locked the bootloader.
What do I do next?, I cannot find a later nandroid backup anywhere
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Just for now for the sake of getting a working phone I would just flash a 4.2.2 stock ROM, or Sense-based Rom. You'll need to unlock your bootloader again obviously.
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redbull123 said:
Just for now for the sake of getting a working phone I would just flash a 4.2.2 stock ROM, or Sense-based Rom. You'll need to unlock your bootloader again obviously.
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Thanks for the reply, was up till 3am trying to get around this and got it going eventually.
That's what I have done for now, I sideloaded a stock Sense ROM which came with a stock recovery.img, guess I have to wait for a S-OFF for 1.54 if it ever happens.

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DaleR said:
Thanks for the reply, was up till 3am trying to get around this and got it going eventually.
That's what I have done for now, I sideloaded a stock Sense ROM which came with a stock recovery.img, guess I have to wait for a S-OFF for 1.54 if it ever happens.
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i have done the same deleted the os off my htc one (CID o2 ) and can not find a the same kind of rom I can get into recovery and have twrp but side loader just says loading and my laptop wont see my phone keeps saying htc mtp driver fail any chance u can let me know how you did yours thanks

If you find your PC/laptop is not seeing the phone then ensue you have the latest drivers on the PC
mini sdk
http://goo.gl/T6InE
HTC Driver version 4.2.0.001
Some folks find Hasoon's All in One very useful - a grate bit of kit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2183942

[Q] Stock recoveries - The right one, their behavior and the risks of flashing them

Hi, I have an Unlocked 32GB HTC One (BS_US001) and I'm having a hard time trying to find info about stock recoveries.
My phone currently is on stock 4.1.2, bootloader unlocked, S-Off and rooted. I was using the TWRP recovery, used to root my phone. Since the 4.3 update came out, I was searching for the stock recovery to proceed with the update, but too many different files seems to exist. I just want to install the right recovery and apply the 4.3 update, no full ROM flash.
Yesterday I flashed this recovery file (9MB) and got icons similar of those on the right of this image.
Today, I flashed this one (7.9MB) and got something like this, the little android icon.
Later, I've found another one (9.8MB).
Edit: and another one, a few bytes shorter than the third.
But now I'm little afraid of flashing again, just for the sake of it.
So, first of all, which one is the right file for my phone (yet another one)?
Second, I flash recoveries through fastboot command line (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img). Can this method and command brick my phone?
Third, how the stock recovery behaves on your phone? Both times, when I flashed the files and entered in recovery mode, my phone would boot 2 or 3 times straight into recovery mode again, until it boot itself properly, into the system. Also, recovery mode goes from the green to the red icon and awaits until I reboot the phone again.
Thanks in advance.
Final edit: For the sake of others lost in the lack of good info, I'm editing this old post.
I found some crap advices here and there. One of them was the need to relock the bootloader to accept OTAs. It doesn't make any sense, but if you are seeking help, you will take **** as good advice. Don't do it.
Another bad advice was about the stock recovery. Just open the last update you got (Downloads folder on your phone or get the OTA from HTC website) and extract the recovery.img file. Flash it and you have the proper stock recovery for your phone.
All of this is about the stock HTC One - no custom roms, no xposed changes, nothing. The only thing I did prior to this was to flash TWRP and root. That's how I want my phone for now - stock with root.

I kind of went through this today. Ended up just wiping it, running a RUU and reapplying OTAs.
I'll tell you this… after I went through this I attempted to salvage the stock recovery before rerooting etc. I was stuck trying to get fastboot to boot a recovery instead of flash one. I did find an alternate way to harvest the recovery. I got it out of the ota. I'm not done testing it yet, but my phone was still showing tampered. Flashed cwr and called it a day at that point
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Thank you for your answer. I'm trying to avoid the whole RUU thing, but I'll keep it as a last resource, for sure. Also, I'm trying to understand more about this piece of software called recovery.

The one I sent you is pulled directly from stock 1.29.1540.16 for Dev. edition, which comes with an unlocked bootloader as well. Also, it's signed, which will allow it to be flashed whether you're s-on or off. Assuming your MID is PN0712000, with CID BS_US001, this recovery is your stock and will work. Hope it helps.

kibmikey1 said:
The one I sent you is pulled directly from stock 1.29.1540.16 for Dev. edition, which comes with an unlocked bootloader as well. Also, it's signed, which will allow it to be flashed whether you're s-on or off. Assuming your MID is PN0712000, with CID BS_US001, this recovery is your stock and will work. Hope it helps.
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I've been running into similar issues. For the previous 2 OTA's (1540.3 --> 1540.16 & 1540.16 --> 1540.17), simply reflashed stock recovery, ran the OTA, it updated, then I flashed TWRP again. For the most recent OTA (3.22.1540.1, I think), that seems to not be working, but I can't seem to find the right recovery. I've found 1540.3's recovery, but not 1540.16 (or .17 if there was a new recovery in that OTA). Where did you end up finding it?
Thanks!

bjg222 said:
I've been running into similar issues. For the previous 2 OTA's (1540.3 --> 1540.16 & 1540.16 --> 1540.17), simply reflashed stock recovery, ran the OTA, it updated, then I flashed TWRP again. For the most recent OTA (3.22.1540.1, I think), that seems to not be working, but I can't seem to find the right recovery. I've found 1540.3's recovery, but not 1540.16 (or .17 if there was a new recovery in that OTA). Where did you end up finding it?
Thanks!
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I pulled it directly from my decrypted RUU zip of 1540.16.

Here, there are some of stock recovery.
Check if there is the right version for you.
You have to check the versionmain on your phone

kibmikey1 said:
I pulled it directly from my decrypted RUU zip of 1540.16.
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Would you be willing to share it? I haven't found a decrypted version of the 1540.16 RUU since Bugsy's hosting server stopped hosting downloads (The new thread only has 1540.3 last I checked).
Guich said:
Here, there are some of stock recovery.
Check if there is the right version for you.
You have to check the versionmain on your phone
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Thanks, looks like for the dev edition, those sites only have the new recovery from the Android 4.3 updated (3.22.1540.1), though

bjg222 said:
Thanks, looks like for the dev edition, those sites only have the new recovery from the Android 4.3 updated (3.22.1540.1), though
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Is the 3.22 in the folder

Guich said:
Is the 3.22 in the folder
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In the Dev Edition folder, 3.22 is all that's there. Have you had any luck finding the 1.29.1540.16 recovery? That's the one I need.

bjg222 said:
In the Dev Edition folder, 3.22 is all that's there. Have you had any luck finding the 1.29.1540.16 recovery? That's the one I need.
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1.29.1540.16 Developer Edition signed stock recovery.

Has anyone else flashed stock recovery while on custom ROM? I was pleasantly surprised to discover my SD card was wiped Is this normal, and was there some way I could have figured out this was what was going to happen? I don't really understand what stock recovery does/is for. The only other time I'd flashed stock recovery was after restoring to stock ROM from nandroid.

kibmikey1 said:
1.29.1540.16 Developer Edition signed stock recovery.
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Awesome, thanks!

bjg222 said:
Awesome, thanks!
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Have you had any luck with this? I have a DE 64gb and I'm in the same situation you were/are, I'm on stock recovery but I can't accept the OTA unlike the other 4.1.2 ones. Always gets stuck on the red triangle !.

arikah said:
Have you had any luck with this? I have a DE 64gb and I'm in the same situation you were/are, I'm on stock recovery but I can't accept the OTA unlike the other 4.1.2 ones. Always gets stuck on the red triangle !.
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If you're rooted, unroot through SU, then do a factory reset and try it again.

kibmikey1 said:
If you're rooted, unroot through SU, then do a factory reset and try it again.
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I haven't been rooted since one of the last 4.1.2 updates, because that's when I went back to stock recovery. I was able to accept those OTA packs, why is this one different? I'm really trying to save factory resets or RUU's for the absolute last ditch effort, in fact I'm more likely to stick with 4.1.2 until I can find a way to do this.

help
I have att htc one dev edition, its in soft brick state and i cny get it to do anything, i have tried running the recovery kit, and that get to the end then error 131...
could somebody please suggest some help for me please, thanks in advance

[Q] New OTA, red triangle and ! after flashing

Hi Folks,
I was notified of a new OTA for my unbranded HTC One today..
(I'll post the version when I get back to what I was running and can see)
My phone was running 3.62.401.1, S-OFF, with CWM and rooted.
I flashed the stock recovery and re-locked my bootloader, then tried applying the OTA.
My phone restarted and I got the expected progress bar as the OTAs applied, but then a picture of an HTC one with red ! and triangle.
If I restart my phone by holding in the power button, I get the following:
htc quietly brilliant logo
green then pink screens with some strange corruption-like lines
htc one logo, with blue beats
the phone stops there
I should be able to unlock, flash CWM and then go back to a backup and all's well. but how could I apply the OTA? I'm keem to give Kitkat a go..
I'm sure I'm missing something simple (again!), any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
'tunes

mad_tunes said:
Hi Folks,
I was notified of a new OTA for my unbranded HTC One today..
(I'll post the version when I get back to what I was running and can see)
My phone was running 3.62.401.1, S-OFF, with CWM and rooted.
I flashed the stock recovery and re-locked my bootloader, then tried applying the OTA.
My phone restarted and I got the expected progress bar as the OTAs applied, but then a picture of an HTC one with red ! and triangle.
If I restart my phone by holding in the power button, I get the following:
htc quietly brilliant logo
green then pink screens with some strange corruption-like lines
htc one logo, with blue beats
the phone stops there
I should be able to unlock, flash CWM and then go back to a backup and all's well. but how could I apply the OTA? I'm keem to give Kitkat a go..
I'm sure I'm missing something simple (again!), any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
'tunes
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use the RUU here
http://www.androidruu.com/getdownlo...10.38r.1157.04L_release_353069_signed_2-1.exe

I didn't realise there was and RUU for it at all yet. Thats better than I was hoping
Thanks a lot.
Do you know what I was doing wrong please? (other than doing it a hard way)

mad_tunes said:
I didn't realise there was and RUU for it at all yet. Thats better than I was hoping
Thanks a lot.
Do you know what I was doing wrong please? (other than doing it a hard way)
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Was the stock recovery a 3.62.401.x version? Bootloader didn't need to be relocked, but not likely the issue.

Bell Releasing M7 Sense 6 May 12th. Question

Hey, just seen that sense 6 will get pushed out beginning may 12th in canada. My question is that my phone has an unlocked bootloader, is rooted, but not s-off. I havn't installed a new rom. has the same as after i unlocked bootloader. Will I be able to install the update when it is pushed?

Howie3045 said:
Hey, just seen that sense 6 will get pushed out beginning may 12th in canada. My question is that my phone has an unlocked bootloader, is rooted, but not s-off. I havn't installed a new rom. has the same as after i unlocked bootloader. Will I be able to install the update when it is pushed?
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Until you have the stock recovery ...you can install the update when it is pushed
As you've stated that you phone is rooted then you might've flashed TWRP or CWM to do it so
flash back the stock recovery of your model and you are good to go...

Did you unlock via htcdev ?
Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk

I have twrp and did unlocked via HTC dev
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i have the latest hboot as well. i didnt actually unlock and root until after the last OTA update.

Howie3045 said:
Bell Canada HTC One, want to flash the stock recovery back so that i can get the Sense 6 update. Phone is rooted and unlocked with HTC dev but does not have S-off. been running into issues with hboot 1.56 in that regard and cant get S-off to work. Anyway. From what I gather the OTA update wont work without the stock recovery. How do I know which one to install
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You need the stock recovery that match your fw version. I.e if you are on 3.23.666.1 then you need the recovery from this version.
Here is a collection of stock recovery. If you can't find yours, you can extract the recovery.img from the previous ota. The recovery packed in the upcoming ota update might also work.

my software number now says 4.19.666.8. im as up to date as i can be through bell so if i flash an old recovery will it cause problems? or will i just get an OTA update to bring it back to the latest version

Howie3045 said:
my software number now says 4.19.666.8. im as up to date as i can be through bell so if i flash an old recovery will it cause problems? or will i just get an OTA update to bring it back to the latest version
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then flash the 4.19.666.8 stock recovery. an older recovery might work, not for sure. Or the recovery packed in the upcoming ota might also work.

I think I'm a little over my head now. Lol. I think I'm also missing some of the apps that were removed after the HTC dev unlock. Not good.
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Howie3045 said:
I think I'm a little over my head now. Lol. I think I'm also missing some of the apps that were removed after the HTC dev unlock. Not good.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Free mobile app
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you'll probably have to restore these app if you want to update. The ota updater script md5 check these apps. If they are not on your phone, the ota installation will probably fail because of MD5 mismatch.
See this post from arhd if you want more details

Ota update will not apply until and unless you have pure stock rom.
e.g. If your phone is pure stock you unlock its bootloader it will remove some apps which are installed in preload. Now if you relock the bootloader and flash stock recovery the ota update will not be applied as during flashing ota update check for these apps whether they are installed in preload or not. For ota updates to applied succesfully you need to run RUU of your model then flash ota.
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asking me to do the update now. im really not sure what exactly i need to do to get it now

alright ive found a nandroid backup for bell 3.23.666.1 and i also have the recovery to go with it. if i run that nandroid and flash the recovery do ya'll think i can then get the OTA?

alright i tried this any couldnt get it to work. i flashed the recovery then rebooted phone. it asked to do the 4.19.666.8 update then rebooted, went to recovery but it was still TWRP recovery and not stock. so before getting to far involved i reflashed the nandroid i made this morning.
the whole not being able to s-off with hboot 1.56 is a bit of a pain. ive tried rumrunner and firewater with no luck.
so troubleshooting purposes i should add that i dont care about the tampered bar or anything like that. i dont have to send it back i just want the sense 6 ota. l

Howie3045 said:
alright i tried this any couldnt get it to work. i flashed the recovery then rebooted phone. it asked to do the 4.19.666.8 update then rebooted, went to recovery but it was still TWRP recovery and not stock. so before getting to far involved i reflashed the nandroid i made this morning.
the whole not being able to s-off with hboot 1.56 is a bit of a pain. ive tried rumrunner and firewater with no luck.
so troubleshooting purposes i should add that i dont care about the tampered bar or anything like that. i dont have to send it back i just want the sense 6 ota. l
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I already told you run ruu of your phone. Then you will be able to apply ruu.
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Unfortunately a RUU of 4.19.666.8 is hard to come by

Howie3045 said:
Unfortunately a RUU of 4.19.666.8 is hard to come by
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I haven't seen one yet, the CWR backup was the best I could find.
Maybe someone who has Sense 6 will make and upload a TWRP or CWR backup.

Howie3045 said:
alright i tried this any couldnt get it to work. i flashed the recovery then rebooted phone. it asked to do the 4.19.666.8 update then rebooted, went to recovery but it was still TWRP recovery and not stock
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Then you didn't flash stock recovery... Either the recovery you flashed was not stock, or you didn't flash it right.

Now that I think about it after the flash it didn't do anything so I had to hold the power for 10 seconds. After that I panicked and just reverted back to my nandroid from that morning.
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[Q] Cant get OTA, for ViperOne update

I have my Sprint HTC One m8 and I'd like to update to ViperOne ROM 3.1.0
I was using ViperOne 1.8.0, but to install the new version I need to get things back to stock so I can get all the OTA's up to the most recent update, and then flash the new ViperOne.
I've gotten this far and now I'm stuck...
Flashed Sprint_HTC_One_M8_1.54.651.8_RUU and now it boots into the stock no problem. Flashed the stock recovery here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736048 . When I start the phone it recognizes there is an update, but when it tries to install it, the process quits about a quarter of the way through, it gives off the red ! with triangle, then eventually reboots back into android. I feel like I'm missing a step here somewhere, not sure why the stock recovery doesnt work. I can flash back and forth from the stock recovery and twrp, and twrp works. I have access to fastboot if needed.
General specs of the phone as I believe they still are...
S-Off (htc unlock)
Rooted
1.54.651.8 Stock rom
hboot 3.16.00 (i flashed some mod a long time ago to hide the red development message you'd get)
Anything else you need?

Scrufdog said:
I have my Sprint HTC One m8 and I'd like to update to ViperOne ROM 3.1.0
I was using ViperOne 1.8.0, but to install the new version I need to get things back to stock so I can get all the OTA's up to the most recent update, and then flash the new ViperOne.
I've gotten this far and now I'm stuck...
Flashed Sprint_HTC_One_M8_1.54.651.8_RUU and now it boots into the stock no problem. Flashed the stock recovery here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736048 . When I start the phone it recognizes there is an update, but when it tries to install it, the process quits about a quarter of the way through, it gives off the red ! with triangle, then eventually reboots back into android. I feel like I'm missing a step here somewhere, not sure why the stock recovery doesnt work. I can flash back and forth from the stock recovery and twrp, and twrp works. I have access to fastboot if needed.
General specs of the phone as I believe they still are...
S-Off (htc unlock)
Rooted
1.54.651.8 Stock rom
hboot 3.16.00 (i flashed some mod a long time ago to hide the red development message you'd get)
Anything else you need?
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delete the cache after flash stock recovery ? fastboot erase cache

dawexxl said:
delete the cache after flash stock recovery ? fastboot erase cache
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did that, didnt help, but thx

does the phone have to be S-On with a locked bootloader to recieve OTAs?

Scrufdog said:
does the phone have to be S-On with a locked bootloader to recieve OTAs?
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If you're S-off, no.
You might want to take a look at the thread in the link below. It pretty much covers what you have to do to take the OTA. Since you're S-off, why not install the firmware for the latest update and then flash a ROM based off the latest update? Much simpler than having to go through all the steps you're going through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2888993

yeah, i was trying to update via methods that were a couple weeks old, which of course are old.... lol
I installed the latest ROM from sprint, then install ViperOne on top of it, going through the install right now. Wifi is working so I guess the firmware updated correctly.
Thanks