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Rooting Problem

Hello today I attempted something that I thought was going to be a quick video tutorial fix. I tried Rooting my HTC one. I followed several guides and read many posts I easily managed to unlock my phone. The problem started when trying to flash the recovery onto my phone, first I tried through commands: fastboot flash recovery and I received the error (FAILED data transfer failure unknown error) I've searched for 7 hours looking for a fix. Since I cant root reverting back to a fresh install is impossible, I cant find a RUU for telus, (I live in canada). I just don't know what to do, when I try to flash anything my bootloader freeze, drivers are up to date, tried restarting computer. Used One_M7_All-In-One_Kit_v1.0 doesn't work. This is a nightmare come save me before I jump off a cliff.
EDIT: What I did from beginning was followed this video "How to Root the HTC One-FlamingArio"to the point where you try and flash the recovery fastboot. That didnt work so after trying to fix that I tried How To Root HTC One & Unlock Bootloader - Easiest & User Friendly- The smoking Android ( super boot a 1 click install) that made my bootloader screen turn to tampered. after that I tried One_M7_All-In-One_Kit_v1.
Note in all in one kit I did erase cache and standard recovery works fine, I've re-installed it may times.
Cant post links yet but I gave video names.
EDIT: when I do the cmd fastboot devices my device shows up when I do adb devices nothing shows up could this be part of the problem?
Thank you all for your help, I re-installed all the programs on my laptop and redid all the steps and it worked. Bye!

Try this in ABD fastboot erase cache then flash the recovery again i hope this helps:fingers-crossed:

What did you do from the beginning? Could you post a step by step traceback of what got you to this point? Let's see if you missed any steps

Tonberry23 said:
Hello today I attempted something that I thought was going to be a quick video tutorial fix. I tried Rooting my HTC one. I followed several guides and read many posts I easily managed to unlock my phone. The problem started when trying to flash the recovery onto my phone, first I tried through commands: fastboot flash recovery and I received the error (FAILED data transfer failure unknown error) I've searched for 7 hours looking for a fix. Since I cant root reverting back to a fresh install is impossible, I cant find a RUU for telus, (I live in canada). I just don't know what to do, when I try to flash anything my bootloader freeze, drivers are up to date, tried restarting computer. Used One_M7_All-In-One_Kit_v1.0 doesn't work. This is a nightmare come save me before I jump off a cliff.
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Keep an eye on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2302870
Many people are looking for the Telus RUU.
Can you still access standard recovery? If so try reverting to factory settings (all data will be lost) and try to boot.
If you can get it to boot you should have more luck in trying to root your device.
I know that I had some issue's trying to get root on my device. But once I got S-off with revone, I was able to install root no problem.
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What did you do from the beginning? Could you post a step by step traceback of what got you to this point? Let's see if you missed any steps
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But I would agree, if you can post the steps you have taken so we know where the bottleneck is.
Hope this helps you out bud

Still need help

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Still need help
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Nice to see you sorted it

Assuming you have actually flashed a recovery image to your device, you will then need to push a ROM to your sd card so that you can flash it in recovery.
Just do the following:
1. I am guessing you have the HTC drivers installed on your PC.
2. Download the attached adb.zip and unzip it to a folder on your C drive and call the folder whatever you like.
3. Boot your device into recovery and plug it in to a powered USB port on your PC.
4. Navigate to the folder that you just created on your PC and copy your ROM zip into it. rename the ROM zip to 'rom.zip' to make life easy.
5. Inside the folder, press and hold the shift key and right click in a blank part of the window and select 'Open command window here' (screenshot attached).
6. Type 'adb push rom.zip /sdcard' (don't use the quote marks)
7. Press 'enter'
8. Once the zip has finished being pushed to your sdcard, you can reboot into recovery and then flash it as normal.
EDIT: That will teach me not to read to the very end of a post. I'll leave this here for someone else.

Nexus 7 2012 hspa soft brick on 4.4 ota need my files accessed

Hey everyone, so tonight I got the 4.4 ota on my N7, I am unlocked and rooted but stock everything including recovery.
After updating, my N7 keeps going to stalk recovery and that's it.
I know I can just reflash everything but I have a few very important files. Is there a way to reflash 4.3 without losing data or accessing the data partition while soft bricked so I can recovery my files?

I may be wrong, but can't you reflash your phone as long as you don't replace the userdata.img through fastboot to retain the same information? I could be wrong.

chrisinsocalif said:
I may be wrong, but can't you reflash your phone as long as you don't replace the userdata.img through fastboot to retain the same information? I could be wrong.
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I'm not sure. I'd like to have this confirmed before I do anything. It's not urgent as the due date on my prgect isn't for another couple of weeks. But thanks. I'll look at that as a last resort.

Is it one file or multiple files you are trying to access? Have you tried to pull them using adb to your pc? I do not know how to do it, but I am sure there is a guide somewhere. Or try a phone backup using fastboot then unpack it on your desktop and get the files you need. Again, I am not good with phones, just throwing out idea's.

chrisinsocalif said:
Is it one file or multiple files you are trying to access? Have you tried to pull them using adb to your pc? I do not know how to do it, but I am sure there is a guide somewhere. Or try a phone backup using fastboot then unpack it on your desktop and get the files you need. Again, I am not good with phones, just throwing out idea's.
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ADB or Wugs root kit don't see my Nexus 7 as it keeps rebooting to the dead droid and I know I don't have it set for debugging. Guess I'm screwed.

When you say "dead droid", you're referring to fastboot mode, right? (Android icon with a bunch of text below it, starting with "Fastboot Mode" in red.)
If you have fastboot, you can flash TWRP Recovery 2.6.3.0. Download it from Team Win's site (Google it). Then:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-grouper.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Use the Volume keys to select "Recovery Mode" and hit Power. Once you see the TWRP menu, you should have adb root access automatically. Connect tablet to USB, and use adb pull to download the contents of /sdcard:
adb pull /sdcard /dumphere
Replace "dumphere" with whatever directory you want to dump to. I'm sure there's better guides and explanations for this, but this is the quick version.
I guess you could reflash stock recovery afterwards, but I can't think of a reason why you'd want to. It's not like it's that useful.
As a rule of thumb, you should at least know how to get around a command line, and use adb and fastboot before mucking around with your tablet.
-XCN-
P.S. I could be mistaken, but I don't think internal storage (which is /sdcard, or /data/media) is overwritten when you flash a ROM. Obviously, backup first before trying.

Screwed Rooted N6 by wiping System...now: No OS

If you've familiar with this problem and can direct me to regaining factory settings I'd greatly appreciate.
Used Nexus Toolkit to root, an had Twrp recovery. Had no backup w/Toolkit but did have a Nandroid backup....to no avail. Can't access it..
I still can get to bootloader and recovery of course but have a "NO OS" sign on the device.
A step by step from anyone in the community greatly appreciated.
Thanks

You could flash the system image through the root toolkit

I used wugs. And as long as you are boot loader unlocked and can access boot loader you are good. I somehow magaed to delete my OS, and my recovery so nothing worked! Used wigs, clicked flash stock and unroot. Checked the box for soft bricked or bootloop and it downloaded everything and flashed it onto my phone and it was fixed in 5 mins!
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Additionally if you plug your phone into a comp while in recovery it should mount the storage on your PC so you could always dl a ROM on PC and move it over then flash.

Yea use wugs toolkit to flash back to stock. Easy fix

See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-flash-factory-images-nexus-6shamu-t2954008

Wow the wugs toolkit is amazing. Thanks

This is exactly why I dislike toolkits... They're written by others, and you can never be 100% certain what's going on under the hood. I personally find it easier to simply run the fastboot and adb commands, and be done with it... If you make a command line mistake, the image simply won't flash, in which case, your system is left untouched. If you make a mistake with a toolkit, you could end up with a very expensive brick on your hands.
I'm in no way trying to denigrate toolkit devs or users; I'm simply giving my opinion on what I find to be the easiest, most risk-free method for flashing factory images and boot images. Recoveries are fine for day-to-day zip flashing, but when I need to do a bit more, I find fastboot and adb are the way to go. ?

jjhiza said:
This is exactly why I dislike toolkits... They're written by others, and you can never be 100% certain what's going on under the hood. I personally find it easier to simply run the fastboot and adb commands, and be done with it... If you make a command line mistake, the image simply won't flash, in which case, your system is left untouched. If you make a mistake with a toolkit, you could end up with a very expensive brick on your hands.
I'm in no way trying to denigrate toolkit devs or users; I'm simply giving my opinion on what I find to be the easiest, most risk-free method for flashing factory images and boot images. Recoveries are fine for day-to-day zip flashing, but when I need to do a bit more, I find fastboot and adb are the way to go. ?
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To elaborate more on this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/dangers-tool-kits-one-click-root-t1469909
I completely agree with jihiza here 100%
Its essential learning how to use adb/fastboot. Its not difficult to do and pays off in the long run.

how did you get your computer to recognize the device? Everything I've tried to this point says "no adb device"
edit: I got everything to flash manually.

papi5120 said:
You could flash the system image through the root toolkit
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Or you could just fastboot it Root Toolkits make zero sense to me. Takes longer to Download the toolkit than it does to just fastboot the device.

Toolkits are great for phones that are good for phones with out fastboot but a nexus I feel that people never learn how or why they work stuff like this happens people don't know what to do.
I have wiped the System partition before, usually on purpose when flashing a ROM. There have been a few times that I either thought I had a backup which turns out I didn't, or the ROM I downloaded is in a mysterious "0" folder that twrp refuses to see. It's inconvenient yet but easy fix.
Use twrp to adbsideload if you have a ROM saved to your computer of I can fastboot factory image. No need to panic worst case scenario I don't have a phone for a day I do this with no computer and am gone for extended period of time

Help with 5.01 (no wipe)

OK. This is for those who are not so great or somewhat new to flashing stuff; if you're already awesome at this you will most likely not find this thread helpful. It took me a long time to find the answers I was looking for so I thought I'd share my results.
My issue: I was trying to update to Android 5.01 (Nexus 6, 5.0, encrypted, rooted)
I got the OTA notification, which after I dismissed it, could not get it back. However, I found out, again after much reading that even if I had caught it, it would not have worked since Lollipop does a system check before it updates and because I was rooted would not have worked. I also tried just capturing the OTA update from droidlife and again, once I got to the sideload phase (either through wugfresh, or just standard minimal adb).
So... searched and searched, I didn't want to lose my user data, since it's tough to get everything just the way I like it. I finally found a solution.
I downloaded Wugfresh (mainly because the application is great in terms of getting the drivers under control, I was able to get it installed and working on two comptuers).
Next, downloaded the minimal adb and fastboot stuff, it's pretty awesome, because after this process you really feel like you're getting a grasp on customizing android.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Next, download the actual install image from google (nexus 6, 5.01)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
Once you get that file, you'll need a nice zip program like 7zip: You want to go into the file and get 5 files:
radio-shamu-d4.0-9625-02.55.04.img (I renamed it to radio.img)
bootloader-shamu-moto-apq8084-71.05.img (I renamed it to bootloader.img
then in the image-shamu-lrx22c.zip file, retrieve these three files:
recovery.img, system.img and boot.img
Now, take a breath, get a drink and prepare for the next part.
Boot into fastboot mode (power off phone, then once it's off, hold down power and volume DOWN)
Pull up your minimal adb and fastboot:
type:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash radio radio.img
Very important next step:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Next:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
This first boot will take quite a bit but it WILL come up, and optimize all your apps and settings (nothing lost)
Now, because I was in the mood to flash stuff, I rebooted into fastboot mode again (after I downloaded CF-auto root and extracted the files for 5.0)
renamed the cf-autoroot blah blah blah to just root.img
then:
flashboot boot root.img, it ran and rebooted, bam rerooted, none of the my data lost. Hope this helps someone.

Good to hear you've got it sorted. This has been covered on many occasions in other threads though.

Hello I am pretty new to flashing and been looking around to find a way to flash 5.0.1 on my N6 w/o having all my data wiped. Like you i got the OTA update and i attempted to install it even tho i had root and i read on forums that it would fail. After it finished downloading it rebooted my device to shortly fail right after. The OTA update has never popped up since and i been waiting for it to come back up (2 days now) so i can attempt to install it after i unroot.
Thanks for your detailed instructions and for assuring me that you were successful w/o having to lose data. I will flash my N6 as soon as i get home!

Amos91 said:
Good to hear you've got it sorted. This has been covered on many occasions in other threads though.
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people like you need to go away - i had the same thought, but did i feel so compelled to bash the OP? As far as i'm concerned, there will always be new people around with new nexus devices and what the OP laid out clearly addressed many threads that popped up over the last week regarding 5.0.1. Even though i didn't need the help, thanks OP for sharing.

mb3030 said:
people like you need to go away - i had the same thought, but did i feel so compelled to bash the OP? As far as i'm concerned, there will always be new people around with new nexus devices and what the OP laid out clearly addressed many threads that popped up over the last week regarding 5.0.1. Even though i didn't need the help, thanks OP for sharing.
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Not sure I can see how I bashed the OP. I could of been considerably more brash than that and meerly said whilst it was good he got it working it has been covered.
Whilst I agree the information is useful there has to be some kind of limit to duplication.

I'm not a robot
firestarter44 said:
Next, download the actual install image from google (nexus 6, 5.01)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
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Can someone please verify the url to the image (or direct me to a directory of images)?
I believe it is: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerheadlrx22c but I'm a newbie so I prefer someone who knows verify this.

CodeWarrior4Life said:
Can someone please verify the url to the image (or direct me to a directory of images)?
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if you go to google, and search for nexus factory img, itll be the very first link https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Instead of using fastboot manually since you installed wug's you could have used it to flash each image and not have to type it all out. It's under the advanced button

xxfwmxx said:
Instead of using fastboot manually since you installed wug's you could have used it to flash each image and not have to type it all out. It's under the advanced button
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I tried to flash in Wugs and I was able to flash the first two files "fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img and fastboot flash radio radio.img and fastboot reboot-bootloader . Each time when you flash one, it reboots. When I tried to flash the 3rd file, the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img, it gave me an error saying it cant find my device. I manually typed out tye commands in fastboot and it worked fine.
Also, for folks like me that don't often use the commants, make sure when you unzip your files, if you are using the commands with fastboot, that you put the files in the same directory as Minimal ADB and fastboot. That is my help to everyone! Thanks for the tutorial!!!!

This helped me out a lot!!! Thanks =D

I'd have to agree with mb3030. I searched multiple threads as well as Google to find specific information regarding the Nexus 6 going from 5.0 ==> 5.0.1 (while encrypted) and found no such information until this popped up. While I've been doing this for years now, it's still helpful finding a thread this specific to double check I'm doing things right. I never understood why XDA was so harsh on reposts. I would personally rather have a thousand different threads all saying the same thing from different members as this seems to be the best way to come to a general consensus of the "right" way to do something. It's a typical scientific approach to conduct multiple studies in order to verify information.

Bloody brilliant worked like a charm THANKS!!!!!!!!

So there isn't a stock rooted flashable zip for 5.0.1

Thank you for this awesome guide, worked all well.
will this be the same procedure for 5.1 or will we have to see?
Greetings,
Elmar.

Just wanted to say thanks for this thread! I, too, searched, trying to find this information and never found anything this simple and straightforward. Exactly what I was looking for.

So I've followed the directions and got all the way to flashing the system and it seems to be stuck on "sending sparse system". It already did a "sending sparse system" and followed with "writing system". It sounds like it's trying to send a write the system file in chunks instead of all at once. Am I right? Is it supposed to do this? If I back out now, am I hosed?

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So I've followed the directions and got all the way to flashing the system and it seems to be stuck on "sending sparse system". It already did a "sending sparse system" and followed with "writing system". It sounds like it's trying to send a write the system file in chunks instead of all at once. Am I right? Is it supposed to do this? If I back out now, am I hosed?
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Yes it sends it in chunks. Just let it keep going it will work out fine just takes a bit longer than the other IMG files
The Tig using Tapatalk

the factory image link is not correct
the factory image link is not correct

ncelover said:
the factory image link is not correct
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The correct link is https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Look for the 5.0.1 image for Nexus 6 "Shamu"
The Tig using Tapatalk

Everything works fine until I boot into fastboot mode and then suddenly it can't see the device anymore. Wugfresh works and can see the device in normal mode, but once I pop it into fastboot mode it can't find it anymore either.
Anyone have any ideas?

Inexperienced and messed up big time

I heard of cyanogen mod and was eager to have a play around and try to install it.
I followed a guide on youtube to root my device and things went wrong.
It was running on the latest version of marshmallow, i did all the steps on the video and at the end it said "your device is corrupt it can't be trusted" and then the phone turns off.
I can only get as far as team win recovery project and i've messed up because i've stupidly formatted the data so there are no files or operating system at all on my device.
I'm not being lazy, i've searched these forums and have been trying to sort it out for the last 5 hours.
I'm using a mac too, most of guides are for windows.
I'm really stuck and I'm not clued up with all the terminology used on here.
Can anyone help me in layman's terms? I'm really desperate as now I'm stuck without a phone.
Please don't take the mickey out of me, I know I shouldn't have messed around with these things if I'm not fully aware what I'm doing. I expected it to be straight forward like jailbreaking an iPad.

mikeos89 said:
I heard of cyanogen mod and was eager to have a play around and try to install it.
I followed a guide on youtube to root my device and things went wrong.
It was running on the latest version of marshmallow, i did all the steps on the video and at the end it said "your device is corrupt it can't be trusted" and then the phone turns off.
I can only get as far as team win recovery project and i've messed up because i've stupidly formatted the data so there are no files or operating system at all on my device.
I'm not being lazy, i've searched these forums and have been trying to sort it out for the last 5 hours.
I'm using a mac too, most of guides are for windows.
I'm really stuck and I'm not clued up with all the terminology used on here.
Can anyone help me in layman's terms? I'm really desperate as now I'm stuck without a phone.
Please don't take the mickey out of me, I know I shouldn't have messed around with these things if I'm not fully aware what I'm doing. I expected it to be straight forward like jailbreaking an iPad.
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I don't know how you went about the processes but based on what you are saying, I'm guessing you used a "toolkit". You situation isn't that big of a deal. If you can get into fastboot, I suggest you get into fastboot and use adb commands to "push" commands to push a custom ROM into your /sdcard then flash it via TWRP.
adb push <source-path> <target-path>
adb devices
adb push filename /sdcard/
Once you boot back into TWRP, flash and you are good to go.

mikeprius said:
I don't know how you went about the processes but based on what you are saying, I'm guessing you used a "toolkit". You situation isn't that big of a deal. If you can get into fastboot, I suggest you get into fastboot and use adb commands to "push" commands to push a custom ROM into your /sdcard then flash it via TWRP.
adb push <source-path> <target-path>
adb devices
adb push filename /sdcard/
Once you boot back into TWRP, flash and you are good to go.
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I appreciate the help, but imagine you are talking to an idiot who doesn't have the foggiest, I'm clueless with command prompts unless it's something I'm copying directly.
I want to learn this stuff, but I really need all the info stripped down to the bare basics at the moment.
I'm panicking a bit too which isn't helping.

Can't you just drag and drop a ROM and gapps while in twrp... Ive.done it before...good luck

Not likely as the phone plugged into the computer may not read it as a "USB" drive. I have windows and I have no idea what the command prompts are for Mac. Also if your understanding is virtually nothing, you need at least understand the basics of fastboot and custom recovery in order to fix your situation.
The good news is that your phone isn't messed up. The bad news is you need to roll up your sleeves and learn the basics of how the commands work so you can reboot the phone back. Everyone here can describe to you what to do but since you don't know the fundamentals it won't mean anything until you do. Sorry.
Btw, jailbreaking isn't the Apple version of "root". They are 2 completely different things.
What I would do is fastboot erase TWRP and re-flash it as it sounds like you are having problems, then adb pull a custom ROM into your internal storage. Reboot into TWRP and flash it. That's what you need to do.

mikeos89 said:
I appreciate the help, but imagine you are talking to an idiot who doesn't have the foggiest, I'm clueless with command prompts unless it's something I'm copying directly.
I want to learn this stuff, but I really need all the info stripped down to the bare basics at the moment.
I'm panicking a bit too which isn't helping.
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I don't know anything about flashing a phone from a Mac but if you can boot your phone into bootloader mode and get fastboot to work on the Mac I would follow the steps under Step 5, Method 2 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-flash-factory-images-nexus-6shamu-t2954008. I use that method to upgrade my phone every time a new ROM comes out and it works great.
Note:
1. You this will get you back to stock, you'll still have to flash your custom ROM after you get your phone working.
2. The .img files can be downloaded from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#shamu.

Provided you have custom recovery such as TWRP. Get a USB otg card reader or microusb stick, download a Rom and transfer it onto the OTG, go to twrp, navigate to the USB OTG memory and flash the Rom. Simple.
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bushako said:
Provided you have custom recovery such as TWRP. Get a USB otg card reader or microusb stick, download a Rom and transfer it onto the OTG, go to twrp, navigate to the USB OTG memory and flash the Rom. Simple.
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This, easiest way for you probably. I've done it this way before too. I suppose you could ask someone to TeamView your pc, but you should probably try the usb otg method first.