[Q] SOLVED. Stuck on boot screen with no way out - Sprint HTC One (M7)

I'm stuck at the white boot screen with the green htc logo, the red dev text, and the word android on top of the red text.
I just unrooted and went back to stock using the latest ruu.
I'm unlocked and s-off.
I wanted to put on a recovery for it but when I did, the red text about the build being for dev purposes showed up.
I thought flashing the stock boot img would fix that.
It didn't. I can't reboot out, turn off the phone, get to bootloader or recovery, or anything.
Adb and fastboot can't see the phone is connected cause it's at the boot screen.
I tried holding Vol Up and Power for a minute and then tried shining a light on the front camera for a couple of minutes.
Is there any hope to fix this?

Zin0 said:
I'm stuck at the white boot screen with the green htc logo, the red dev text, and the word android on top of the red text.
I just unrooted and went back to stock using the latest ruu.
I'm unlocked and s-off.
I wanted to put on a recovery for it but when I did, the red text about the build being for dev purposes showed up.
I thought flashing the stock boot img would fix that.
It didn't. I can't reboot out, turn off the phone, get to bootloader or recovery, or anything.
Adb and fastboot can't see the phone is connected cause it's at the boot screen.
I tried holding Vol Up and Power for a minute and then tried shining a light on the front camera for a couple of minutes.
Is there any hope to fix this?
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the red text is normal after flashing a custom recovery, the other stuff might be you flashed the wrong recovery for your phone, I don't know what phone you have or what recovery you flashed, if it's a sprint phone it should be for m7wls.did you flash superuser after the recovery.to gain root

Aldo101t said:
the red text is normal after flashing a custom recovery, the other stuff might be you flashed the wrong recovery for your phone, I don't know what phone you have or what recovery you flashed, if it's a sprint phone it should be for m7wls.
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I have a sprint htc one m7. I flashed philz for this phone and it worked fine. So the problem was that I flashed the stock boot image on fastboot and for some reason, it got stuck on the boot screen when I tried booting in and I don't have a way of getting out of that boot screen. So far, i'm thinking that I might have to wait for the phone to run out of power and die so it can be off then charge it up and see if I can get into bootloader. But I was hoping there would be another way of getting out of boot screen.

Zin0 said:
I have a sprint htc one m7. I flashed philz for this phone and it worked fine. So the problem was that I flashed the stock boot image on fastboot and for some reason, it got stuck on the boot screen when I tried booting in and I don't have a way of getting out of that boot screen. So far, i'm thinking that I might have to wait for the phone to run out of power and die so it can be off then charge it up and see if I can get into bootloader. But I was hoping there would be another way of getting out of boot screen.
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hold power down and the captive lights should blink when they stop simultaneously hold volume down should get you to bootloader.

Aldo101t said:
hold power down and the captive lights should blink when they stop simultaneously hold volume down should get you to bootloader.
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Interesting, I never heard of that. So I hold down power and watch the lights blink until they're done, then hold volume down?

Zin0 said:
Interesting, I never heard of that. So I hold down power and watch the lights blink until they're done, then hold volume down?
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yep, when screen turns off hold power and volume down.

Aldo101t said:
yep, when screen turns off hold power and volume down.
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Alright cool. Do you know how long i gotta hold it for until they stop? They've been blinking forever since I've held power down.

Zin0 said:
Alright cool. Do you know how long i gotta hold it for until they stop? They've been blinking forever since I've held power down.
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hmmm, they should only blink about 10 times, does the screen turn off?
try putting it under a bright light when they are flashing.

Aldo101t said:
hmmm, they should only blink about 10 times, does the screen turn off?
try putting it under a bright light when they are flashing.
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I used the flashlight from my other phone on it but it blinks as long as I hold it down, it doesn't seem to stop. And no, the screen doesn't turn off, it's still the same boot screen.
EDIT- It probably was the damn light lol. I happened to plug in the One to the charger and there was a lamp next to it, so I put it under that and held the power and volume down key and the screen went dark and booted into fastboot and I smiled greatly Thank you! Now the beginning starts.

Zin0 said:
I used the flashlight from my other phone on it but it blinks as long as I hold it down, it doesn't seem to stop. And no, the screen doesn't turn off, it's still the same boot screen.
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hmmm, don't know what the heck's going on there.

Aldo101t said:
hmmm, don't know what the heck's going on there.
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I didn't either till that blessed lamp came into my sights. I thought I had to pull the plug. But nah, life's way better. So I don't know how to get back the previous boot image i had before i flashed this one.

Zin0 said:
I didn't either till that blessed lamp came into my sights. I thought I had to pull the plug. But nah, life's way better. So I don't know how to get back the previous boot image i had before i flashed this one.
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gotta get to the bootloader somehow.??

Aldo101t said:
gotta get to the bootloader somehow.??
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Nah. To the boot image version before the one I flashed. But I just ended up running the ruu again and it set up everything. So i'm saved now. Thanks for your help.

Zin0 said:
Nah. To the boot image version before the one I flashed. But I just ended up running the ruu again and it set up everything. So i'm saved now. Thanks for your help.
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good to hear,lol, glad you got it up and running

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Booting into stock recovery?

I've been trying to boot into the stock recovery on my phone, primarily to wipe the cache, and it won't do anything. Just seems to boot into a black screen, then an image of the phone with a red triangle and an upside down exclamation mark shows up.
Is this normal?
My phone is completely untouched. Not been rooted unlocked or S-Off.
Is it that you aren't meant to go into recovery on completely stock firmware?
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pardoned said:
I've been trying to boot into the stock recovery on my phone, primarily to wipe the cache, and it won't do anything. Just seems to boot into a black screen, then an image of the phone with a red triangle and an upside down exclamation mark shows up.
Is this normal?
My phone is completely untouched. Not been rooted unlocked or S-Off.
Is it that you aren't meant to go into recovery on completely stock firmware?
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Its essentially a two step process to get there. Once you get to that red triangle, hold UP + POWER until you enter recovery, it'll be a black screen with blue writing.
piimp said:
Its essentially a two step process to get there. Once you get to that red triangle, hold UP + POWER until you enter recovery, it'll be a black screen with blue writing.
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Thanks for replying.
I tried that. Waited for the image of the phone and the triangle etc. Then pressed volume up and power, and it just rebooted the phone. Kept holding, and it turned the phone off.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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pardoned said:
Thanks for replying.
I tried that. Waited for the image of the phone and the triangle etc. Then pressed volume up and power, and it just rebooted the phone. Kept holding, and it turned the phone off.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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Well its a little tricky, if you hold it too long it reboots..hold them for a few seconds and when the capacitives flash about three times let the buttons go
piimp said:
Well its a little tricky, if you hold it too long it reboots..hold them for a few seconds and when the capacitives flash about three times let the buttons go
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Thanks very much mate. That worked. Held them for 5 flashes of the home and back buttons.
You definitely couldn't find that by accident. Haha.
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pardoned said:
Thanks very much mate. That worked. Held them for 5 flashes of the home and back buttons.
You definitely couldn't find that by accident. Haha.
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haha, yeah im glad you got it working.

Stuck In Bootloop - Cant Enter Recovery

Hey Everyone,
Randomly woke up to my phone stuck in a bootloop. Im running Insertcoin 4.3 Sense edition, but I did try flashing GPE 4.4 without any luck. Reflashed the 4.3 and had no issues last night. Then this morning my phone entered this bootloop I cant get out of. I cant enter recovery do to the loop and when I get into the H-Boot menu it resets itself in like 4 seconds and enters the boot loop again. Its not enough time for me to get into fast boot to push anything though adb.
Any suggestions or am I screwed?
sjorge3442 said:
Hey Everyone,
Randomly woke up to my phone stuck in a bootloop. Im running Insertcoin 4.3 Sense edition, but I did try flashing GPE 4.4 without any luck. Reflashed the 4.3 and had no issues last night. Then this morning my phone entered this bootloop I cant get out of. I cant enter recovery do to the loop and when I get into the H-Boot menu it resets itself in like 4 seconds and enters the boot loop again. Its not enough time for me to get into fast boot to push anything though adb.
Any suggestions or am I screwed?
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sounds like the Power button is messed up/stuck, maybe?
sjorge3442 said:
Hey Everyone,
Randomly woke up to my phone stuck in a bootloop. Im running Insertcoin 4.3 Sense edition, but I did try flashing GPE 4.4 without any luck. Reflashed the 4.3 and had no issues last night. Then this morning my phone entered this bootloop I cant get out of. I cant enter recovery do to the loop and when I get into the H-Boot menu it resets itself in like 4 seconds and enters the boot loop again. Its not enough time for me to get into fast boot to push anything though adb.
Any suggestions or am I screwed?
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restart your phone with holding volume down than press and hold the power button. your button lights should light up. once you boot into h boot screen hit the fastboot selection as fast as you can. if you got into the fastboot try running this command with ADB.
fastboot erase cache
if that still doesn't work try
fastboot erase userdata
good luck let me know how it goes!
nkk71 said:
sounds like the Power button is messed up/stuck, maybe?
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ding ding ding!!! Turns out letting a child put your phone near your mouth will mess up the power button. After putting it in front of my wood stove for 15 minutes it was working again.
sjorge3442 said:
ding ding ding!!! Turns out letting a child put your phone near your mouth will mess up the power button. After putting it in front of my wood stove for 15 minutes it was working again.
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i'm glad that you got it working. i was going to suggest a warranty replacement if the above steps didnt work.

[Q] HTC One stuck in boot loop, can't use recovery/

Hello, I've recently just got this phone off someone to fix for them. It's in the constant bootloop. I can get into the bootloader, which is locked and has S-ON. However, if I try to navigate down it restarts as soon as it highlights recovery. If I navigate up, it will open up the show barcode, and exit out of it and sometimes highlight the image crc and attempt to display it. It restarts however very soon after. This phone has not been rooted or has been flashed at all.
Stuck of ideas at the minute on what to do to fix this guys phone, I don't believe he has warrenty on it either .
Any help would much be appreciated! Want to try and get this fixed.
adstheratz said:
Hello, I've recently just got this phone off someone to fix for them. It's in the constant bootloop. I can get into the bootloader, which is locked and has S-ON. However, if I try to navigate down it restarts as soon as it highlights recovery. If I navigate up, it will open up the show barcode, and exit out of it and sometimes highlight the image crc and attempt to display it. It restarts however very soon after. This phone has not been rooted or has been flashed at all.
Stuck of ideas at the minute on what to do to fix this guys phone, I don't believe he has warrenty on it either .
Any help would much be appreciated! Want to try and get this fixed.
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can you navigate to fastboot and get the phone into fastbootUSB mode ?
Seanie280672 said:
can you navigate to fastboot and get the phone into fastbootUSB mode ?
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That's the first option i'm able to get to at the top, I press the power button to select it however it just resets the phone. I presume this isn't suppose to happen and the fastboot hasn't work?
Wait, sorry. If I press Vol Up, then Vol down again, it auto selects it. However, I can't select the options in the new menu.
Sorry again, it also doesn't seem to have a fastbootUSB mode? Unless it does that when it restarts?
adstheratz said:
That's the first option i'm able to get to at the top, I press the power button to select it however it just resets the phone. I presume this isn't suppose to happen and the fastboot hasn't work?
Wait, sorry. If I press Vol Up, then Vol down again, it auto selects it. However, I can't select the options in the new menu.
Sorry again, it also doesn't seem to have a fastbootUSB mode? Unless it does that when it restarts?
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when you select fastboot, plug it into the computer, it should now say fastboot USB on the screen, if you cant get fastboot, you cant fix it, its knackered.
Seanie280672 said:
when you select fastboot, plug it into the computer, it should now say fastboot USB on the screen, if you cant get fastboot, you cant fix it, its knackered.
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Bugger. I'll mess with it a bit more in hopes of reviving it. Cheers for the help though
If "fastboot" turns to "fastbootUSB" you will probably be OK. Try entering RUU mode from fastboot with the command "fastboot oem rebootRUU" If you get this far you will just need to apply a full RUU image, which will reinstall everything, including the boot loader itself.
dougeedug said:
If "fastboot" turns to "fastbootUSB" you will probably be OK. Try entering RUU mode from fastboot with the command "fastboot oem rebootRUU" If you get this far you will just need to apply a full RUU image, which will reinstall everything, including the boot loader itself.
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I can't seem to get to that, the phone restarts itself pretty much around 5-7 seconds being in the bootloader itself.
The only other reason i can imagine this happening is maybe because the battery is knackered.
adstheratz said:
I can't seem to get to that, the phone restarts itself pretty much around 5-7 seconds being in the bootloader itself.
The only other reason i can imagine this happening is maybe because the battery is knackered.
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sounds like your power button is stuck
nkk71 said:
sounds like your power button is stuck
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Good point, the power button does seem a bit further in this one, than I have seen in other M7s. This may sound silly, but it clicks when I push it down, but have no idea how to properly bring it up.
adstheratz said:
Good point, the power button does seem a bit further in this one, than I have seen in other M7s. This may sound silly, but it clicks when I push it down, but have no idea how to properly bring it up.
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unfortunately, i have no idea how to fix the button, but if your phone is behaving as if it's being continually pressed that would explain the reboots.
to verify, just enter bootloader, don't do anything (but be in a well lit environment), if it reboots again and again, then the power button is stuck.
nkk71 said:
unfortunately, i have no idea how to fix the button, but if your phone is behaving as if it's being continually pressed that would explain the reboots.
to verify, just enter bootloader, don't do anything (but be in a well lit environment), if it reboots again and again, then the power button is stuck.
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Yep, I'll see about trying to fix the power button then. Here's hoping!
Also, sorry. I should've added in the op that it only turns on when it's plugged into something. If i unplugged it while it's on the htc screen or bootloader, it will stay on till it does the usual reset then stay off.
If the power button is clicking I doubt it is stuck.
adstheratz said:
Also, sorry. I should've added in the op that it only turns on when it's plugged into something. If i unplugged it while it's on the htc screen or bootloader, it will stay on till it does the usual reset then stay off.
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When the Device restarts while you're on the HTC Boot Screen, do the LED Buttons down at the bottom flash up a couple of times prior to the reset? If so, that would be conclusive with the stuck Power Button as that is (afaik) the normal behavior for a reset by pressing and holding Power.
nosmint said:
When the Device restarts while you're on the HTC Boot Screen, do the LED Buttons down at the bottom flash up a couple of times prior to the reset? If so, that would be conclusive with the stuck Power Button as that is (afaik) the normal behavior for a reset by pressing and holding Power.
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This is correct. A hard power down will flash the home and back keys before turning off.
nkk71 said:
unfortunately, i have no idea how to fix the button, but if your phone is behaving as if it's being continually pressed that would explain the reboots.
to verify, just enter bootloader, don't do anything (but be in a well lit environment), if it reboots again and again, then the power button is stuck.
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I've seemed to have someone fixed the phone now, it's getting into Android (after much stress trying to get it into it!). It does seem like it's the power button that is sticky, as it's locking the screen and constantly waking it up and bringing the power button menu up. Needless to say, i'm overjoyed that it's working. Now I need to find out how to fix the power button in it.
adstheratz said:
Now I need to find out how to fix the power button in it.
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That might actually not be quite the easiest task. If anything else fails, why not try bringing it as close to stock und untempered as you can go and hand it in for a warranty repair. With a little bit of luck they will not check the software as it is obviously a hardware button defect.

[Q] New Sprint HTC M8 Stuck on Boot Screen

I have a new HTC M8 form Sprint (it's the boss's phone) and since last night the phone will not boot. It is on the stock rom, not rooted and boot loader is locked. The phone won't HBoot, Fastboot or enter recovery (get the phone with the red triangle). Any ideas or help is appreciated.
What where you trying to do?
From your description it sounds like a brick.
If you can get into bootloader you could try to enter fastboot flash recovery recovery.img or put the recovery.img in a zip with correct android.txt zip it and name zip 0P6BIMG.zip and put that in root of external sdcard and boot to bootloader.
He wasn't attempting to do anything. The phone was on the charger overnight. Not sure if there was an update the was downloaded and installed overnight. Bu, as of right now it seems to be "bricked".
From the screen with the red triangle, what happens if you hold the power button down? Does it reboot? If so, when the screen goes black, try holding the volume down button and see if it will go into the bootloader. If so, you can try to RUU.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
From the screen with the red triangle, what happens if you hold the power button down? Does it reboot? If so, when the screen goes black, try holding the volume down button and see if it will go into the bootloader. If so, you can try to RUU.
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Shouldnt it be you hold volume up+ power it should reboot you, then volume down +power to boot to bootloader? I assume the same since it shows the default recovery (no ROM installed image)
I can't remember about the rebooting part. I know for a fact that if I reboot my phone I can hold volume down to get into bootloader once the screen goes black. I was stuck in the stock recovery the other day and can't recall offhand how I got it to reboot.
Magnum_Enforcer said:
I can't remember about the rebooting part. I know for a fact that if I reboot my phone I can hold volume down to get into bootloader once the screen goes black. I was stuck in the stock recovery the other day and can't recall offhand how I got it to reboot.
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Lol, im almost positive vol up+ power is the combo to use, but whatever works works
EVOuser94 said:
Lol, im almost positive vol up+ power is the combo to use, but whatever works works
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I'll agree to disagree. Agree
Magnum_Enforcer said:
I'll agree to disagree. Agree
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Agreed lmao! Youre a pretty good dude hahaha
Magnum_Enforcer said:
From the screen with the red triangle, what happens if you hold the power button down? Does it reboot? If so, when the screen goes black, try holding the volume down button and see if it will go into the bootloader. If so, you can try to RUU.
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No. it doesn't reboot...
brick71 said:
No. it doesn't reboot...
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Vol up too?
brick71 said:
No. it doesn't reboot...
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Plug it into a pc and try fastboot oem reboot ruu
Thread cleaned let's carry on without the bickering.
Thanks,
BD619

[Q] Stuck at boot splash screen and will not reboot into recovery

Hello all,
I haven't touched my M7 in about 6 months but I figure it's time I try to fix it. Here are the following symptoms of my problem: it won't boot past the splash screen, it won't boot into recovery, and it doesn't like powering up unless it's plugged into a wall socket.
Is there any way I can RUU this or force it into fastboot or recovery?
press vol down + power button to enter bootloader and then choose fastboot
Sorry should have specified that I already tried that.
Is it unlocked or not? Does it have stock or custom recovery?
donkeykong1 said:
Is it unlocked or not? Does it have stock or custom recovery?
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Custom recovery but stock ROM.
freshlimes said:
Custom recovery but stock ROM.
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Where does power + vol down get you? Bootloader menu or bootloop again?
donkeykong1 said:
Where does power + vol down get you? Bootloader menu or bootloop again?
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Bootloop and then back to being stuck on the splash screen.
freshlimes said:
Bootloop and then back to being stuck on the splash screen.
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Did you try holding the power button for few seconds till capacitive buttons start flashing? After they stop keep holding the power button and press vol down. That should take you to bootloader menu
donkeykong1 said:
Did you try holding the power button for few seconds till capacitive buttons start flashing? After they stop keep holding the power button and press vol down. That should take you to bootloader menu
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Yeah I've tried that too. Also bootloops.
freshlimes said:
Yeah I've tried that too. Also bootloops.
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Hm... How did you get in that situation? A bit more info on your phone and the reason for the bootloop would be very helpfull
donkeykong1 said:
Hm... How did you get in that situation? A bit more info on your phone and the reason for the bootloop would be very helpfull
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Sorry, seems I left out quite a bit. Was up late messing with it to see if I could get anything done and it was probably due to lack of sleep.
I believe it was after I had tried to RUU. Unforunately I don't remember with which .zip file, but I'm going to assume I didn't screw that up as I've had to RUU quite a few times and hadn't messed that up just yet.
freshlimes said:
Sorry, seems I left out quite a bit. Was up late messing with it to see if I could get anything done and it was probably due to lack of sleep.
I believe it was after I had tried to RUU. Unforunately I don't remember with which .zip file, but I'm going to assume I didn't screw that up as I've had to RUU quite a few times and hadn't messed that up just yet.
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Only thing I don't understand is why it doesn't go to bootloader menu
donkeykong1 said:
Only thing I don't understand is why it doesn't go to bootloader menu
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I fail to understand it too. Would be an easy fix if I could get it into fastboot.
freshlimes said:
I fail to understand it too. Would be an easy fix if I could get it into fastboot.
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Well, it's hard to tell, but a hell of a lot easier than now [emoji6]

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