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Hello, I've recently acquired the htc one x from a friend, i came from the sensation. I was trying to do some rom jumping today and put myself into a bit of a pickle.
what you alls need to know is that i accidently deleted the back ups. and now i have no roms to flash and none installed. I can get to twrp and mount to usb, but on the computer end it says i need to format disk before I can do anything. Since that's not really an option I seem to be stuck with no roms and no way to get a rom on it. I would like to put clean 5.0 back on and stick with that until i can better grasp the adb process on the one x. Any help would be appreciated, thank you -
horiz0ns said:
Hello, I've recently acquired the htc one x from a friend, i came from the sensation. I was trying to do some rom jumping today and put myself into a bit of a pickle.
what you alls need to know is that i accidently deleted the back ups. and now i have no roms to flash and none installed. I can get to twrp and mount to usb, but on the computer end it says i need to format disk before I can do anything. Since that's not really an option I seem to be stuck with no roms and no way to get a rom on it. I would like to put clean 5.0 back on and stick with that until i can better grasp the adb process on the one x. Any help would be appreciated, thank you -
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if the pc tells you that you have to format the sdcard you should do it, better than nothing mate...
i guess i was nervous about that deleting twrp and being stuck forever
horiz0ns said:
i guess i was nervous about that deleting twrp and being stuck forever
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you won't be stuck by deleting twrp, you can always flash any custom recovery from fastboot
with that i was able to get the rom onto it and install. however now I am in cleanrom 5.0 and I'm recieving .process and .phone failures and re boots. any idea how to proceed?
horiz0ns said:
with that i was able to get the rom onto it and install. however now I am in cleanrom 5.0 and I'm recieving .process and .phone failures and re boots. any idea how to proceed?
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have you flashed the rom's boot.img?
it claims it does it for you at the end? unfortunately i wanted to avoid that whole thing which is what got me into this mess.
horiz0ns said:
it claims it does it for you at the end? unfortunately i wanted to avoid that whole thing which is what got me into this mess.
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what are you talking about!? if you flash a rom (clean 5.0 in your case) you will also have to flash its boot.img to get it running!
at the end of the rom installation process it says it flashes the boot image for you.
horiz0ns said:
at the end of the rom installation process it says it flashes the boot image for you.
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never heard of an automatic flash of boot.img, it couldn't be possible cause you are not S-OFF
o ok. i've managed to flash it via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634786
unfortunately it didn't help that i got the phone and it had already been rooted, would have rather done it myself.
thank yo for all of your help!
horiz0ns said:
o ok. i've managed to flash it via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1634786
unfortunately it didn't help that i got the phone and it had already been rooted, would have rather done it myself.
thank yo for all of your help!
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!??!?!??!!??!? could you speak english please? i cannot help you if i do not understand your problem
ok, i'll take it from the top- turn on phone into bootloader. I can no longer get to recovery. I have tried flashing twrp to no avail. when i reset it will go to cleanrom and bootloop. I need to completely reset and re install recovery and rom. just can't get it working for some reason
fastboot erase cache
Go recovery and erase the cache and dalvik cache.
i would but now recovery goes to boot loop, even after i try and flash recovery (twrp and cwm)
fastboot erase cache
i have erased cashe in fastboot through one x tool kit and fastboot flasher. now it goes to the rom and the rom crashes and re boots. :/ how can i wipe and re install rom through fastboot?
also if i click recovery it goes to white htc screen with red dev warning text, then loops
I don't know. I don't know what your tool is doing.
Have you tried reflashing latest recovery? I recommend clockworkmod 5.8.4.0.
is that for gsm ? mine is att version, dk if that matters here
Oh FFS.
You're asking questions about a dual core snapdragon phone in a forum for a quad core Tegra3 based phone and you only wonder out loud now whether that matters?
Yes. Yes it does.
Now go ask questions about your phone in the forum for your phone before you break it.
Hi,
i'm using HTC Desire
Bravo DVT1 ENG S-OFF
HBOOT 0.93.2001 (PB992xxxx)
MICROP-031d
And my phone is rooted, but i am unable to run recovery, i tried flashig via fastboot then with Rom Manager but it still doesn't work. When i try to boot into recovery i stuck at HTC sreen (tried from ADB, Terminal, HBOOT, Rom Manager. Tried with different recoveries for ex. CWM,RA,TWRP,..
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751258
tried all the instructions, but the problem persists .... zip file will be installed through the bootloader but nothing changed and the desire to restart the htc logo when i was trying to boot into recovery
Just a theoretical question, is it possible to root device, s-off and flash hboot without unlocking bootloader via HTC DEV?
icefun said:
Just a theoretical question, is it possible to root device, s-off and flash hboot without unlocking bootloader via HTC DEV?
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Yes. With revolutionary, or alpharev, hboot >1.02.0001
// Edit. DVT1? Hboot 0.93.2001? Interesting
This is one of them special desires out there.
Yeah i noticed that i got this phone rooted with s-off, but recovery is still not working, even the stock recovery wasn't working
icefun said:
Yeah i noticed that i got this phone rooted with s-off, but recovery is still not working, even the stock recovery wasn't working
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Well, you could try flashing a recovery through fastboot. Maybe it will work. If it won't, then flash the 2.3 ruu and restart the rooting process.
ok, i tried to flash RUU, and i have a question, why was my bootloader bypassed? is it normal?
After RUU i tried to flash EXT4 recovery, but when i tried boot into recovery i just get white screen with HTC logo, still same issue
and i am still facing problem with revolutionary etc., waiting for device
icefun said:
ok, i tried to flash RUU, and i have a question, why was my bootloader bypassed? is it normal?
After RUU i tried to flash EXT4 recovery, but when i tried boot into recovery i just get white screen with HTC logo, still same issue
and i am still facing problem with revolutionary etc., waiting for device
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Tick "usb debugging".
i know, still waiting
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i know, still waiting
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Did you properly install adb, fastboot and hboot drivers?
yes i did, i tried it in win and ubuntu,still the same problem
still stucked..somebody with ideas?
icefun said:
still stucked..somebody with ideas?
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you have quite a rare DVT1 device. it would indicate cdma device, but have seen case where it can be gsm as in this thread. is yours a cdma or gsm device (gsm has sim card)?
in that thread the only recovery that would work is RMD recovery, try flashing that through fastboot. i've never used it myself before.
also i've only skim read the first page, also make sure you uninstall rom manager, you don't need it, it's not good for desire.
Big, no HUGE THX mate. finally! my recovery is alive the only working recovery on my device is RMD recovery and my desire is GSM fyi
icefun said:
Big, no HUGE THX mate. finally! my recovery is alive the only working recovery on my device is RMD recovery and my desire is GSM fyi
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glad to see you got it working
for whatever reason, RMD recovery is the only compatible one for your rare device (DVT1 and GSM). don't bother switching recoveries as long as RMD can backup, wipe and install roms.
if you're about to install a custom rom which requires sd card partition (most do), we'd normally recommend partitioning sd card with 4ext recovery, but since that doesn't work i'd recommend Gparted.
oh and again, make sure never to use rom manager with desire.
Well everything worked fine, till i faced new issue i haven't found working rom yet, everytime i flash rom i get only HTC splash screen. And i still haven't found fix for it. I am thinking about trying rom for CDMA phone despite the fact that my phone is GSM, but i am not sure what can happen i hope it won't brick my desire
EDIT: After running this "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" the phone now boots up. The downloaded apps are still there but the userdata partition seems to have been wiped. I'm not sure how flashing a recovery partition wipes the userdata partition but I'm not looking for a way to get the phone to present itself as a Mass Storage Device so I can at least try and use recovery software retrieve as much of the lost data as I can.
Hey guys, long term reader of XDA, first time poster.
I have a friend's HTC One X which just stopped booting up past the HTC Quietly Brilliant logo screen. I am able to get into Recovery mode and doing a "fastboot devices" lists my device. However my friend has many photos on this phone, some of which are of a deceased relative and I'd really like to retrieve the photos if I can.
It's S-ON as I believe there isn't an exploit to go S-OFF yet so my options are likely limited. I've downloaded the most recent RUU file (RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_JB_45_S_HTC_Europe_3.14.401.27_Radio_5.1204.162.29_release_298897_signed) but I'm pretty sure this will repartition the phone and delete the photos.
Is there any way I can retrieve the photos? Will the RUU wipe the photos? Is there any other way to get the phone to boot up again?
It would mean so much to me and my friend if there is a solution.
Many thanks,
Rob
Robula said:
Hey guys, long term reader of XDA, first time poster.
I have a friend's HTC One X which just stopped booting up past the HTC Quietly Brilliant logo screen. I am able to get into Recovery mode and doing a "fastboot devices" lists my device. However my friend has many photos on this phone, some of which are of a deceased relative and I'd really like to retrieve the photos if I can.
It's S-ON as I believe there isn't an exploit to go S-OFF yet so my options are likely limited. I've downloaded the most recent RUU file (RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_JB_45_S_HTC_Europe_3.14.401.27_Radio_5.1204.162.29_release_298897_signed) but I'm pretty sure this will repartition the phone and delete the photos.
Is there any way I can retrieve the photos? Will the RUU wipe the photos? Is there any other way to get the phone to boot up again?
It would mean so much to me and my friend if there is a solution.
Many thanks,
Rob
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I dont know about ruu that it will wipe or not. But you can mount sd from the recovery and go to folder DCIM where you can find all photos.
manikdhir said:
I dont know about ruu that it will wipe or not. But you can mount sd from the recovery and go to folder DCIM where you can find all photos.
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Thank you for the suggestion. However, I can not find the option to mount SD card storage... Could you please elaborate?
My options in recovery made are:
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET (I assume this will wipe photos too?)
SIMLOCK
SHOW BARCODE
IMAGE CRC
Robula said:
Thank you for the suggestion. However, I can not find the option to mount SD card storage... Could you please elaborate?
My options in recovery made are:
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET (I assume this will wipe photos too?)
SIMLOCK
SHOW BARCODE
IMAGE CRC
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Can you plz tell me which recovery are you using.
manikdhir said:
Can you plz tell me which recovery are you using.
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HBOOT... Though just tried TWRP as suggested by this guy on another forum... I then went to Recovery and then moments later it just booted straight back into Android! I only intsalled TWRP and it's completely fixed the issue!
Download the TWRP recovery instead of clockworkmod one.
This recovery will let you mount the SD card to copy the ROM file to the phone.
Boot the phone into the Hboot, then go to fastboot.
If you downloaded the ARHD flash file, you have pretty much all you need when you unpack this. There should be a "Flash windows.bat" or something like that, simply run it, and it'll put the boot.img on your phone.
It just uses the command: "fastboot flash boot <filename>.img"
Now to put the TWRP recovery on your phone, use the following:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
(Obviously with whatever your version of the twrp.img file is called.)
Reboot the phone into recovery, and you should now be able to mount the SD card, copy the rom across, wipe the caches, and system, install the rom, wipe the caches again, and reboot into ARHD 9.7.2
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EDIT: The photos are gone... Gallery is completely empty... #%^£$$34!
Robula said:
HBOOT... Though just tried TWRP as suggested by this guy on another forum... I then went to Recovery and then moments later it just booted straight back into Android! I only intsalled TWRP and it's completely fixed the issue!
EDIT: The photos are gone... Gallery is completely empty... #%^£$$34!
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Did you check the DCIM folder?
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Did you check the DCIM folder?
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I did. I have a feeling that my friend may have tried a Factory Reset from HBOOT herself. Although strangely, all her apps are installed. I guess there's no recovery method on this phone? Is there anything I can do?
Robula said:
I did. I have a feeling that my friend may have tried a Factory Reset from HBOOT herself. Although strangely, all her apps are installed. I guess there's no recovery method on this phone? Is there anything I can do?
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Is there mp3 files in the music player?
manikdhir said:
Is there mp3 files in the music player?
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No. If I go into the MTP device in Windows Explorer I have Internal Storage saying "25.2GB free of 25.2GB" which is really not a good sign. I'm just wondering how I would at least run a recovery program on this such as Recuva in hope to retrieve the lost data.
EDIT: If I could just work out how to get the USB mode to Mass Storage then I'd be able to do a scan... Any idea how to do this?
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No. If I go into the MTP device in Windows Explorer I have Internal Storage saying "25.2GB free of 25.2GB" which is really not a good sign. I'm just wondering how I would at least run a recovery program on this such as Recuva in hope to retrieve the lost data.
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I think that your frnd has done the factory reset.
manikdhir said:
I think that your frnd has done the factory reset.
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Well. Thanks for all your help. Too bad I have to be the bearer of bad news!
If anyone knows how to ADB to a One X or knows how to expose the internal storage as a Mass Storage Device then please reply! At least then I can try a recovery program. Thanks.
Was the phone already unlocked ? Or did you unlock the bootloader at the time you wanted to use a recovery to be able to retrieve the photos ?
A first time unlock of the bootloader will delete indeed everything, also sdcard. A factory reset does not delete the sdcard. Tried it myself a couple of weeks ago !
Robula said:
No. If I go into the MTP device in Windows Explorer I have Internal Storage saying "25.2GB free of 25.2GB" which is really not a good sign. I'm just wondering how I would at least run a recovery program on this such as Recuva in hope to retrieve the lost data.
EDIT: If I could just work out how to get the USB mode to Mass Storage then I'd be able to do a scan... Any idea how to do this?
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You will have to install a custom rom if you want UMS... If you want it on stock rom, then you need to have root access... There's a thread here on XDA but I don't know the link of it... tried searching but can't find it anywhere... strange!
Mr Hofs said:
Was the phone already unlocked ? Or did you unlock the bootloader at the time you wanted to use a recovery to be able to retrieve the photos ?
A first time unlock of the bootloader will delete indeed everything, also sdcard. A factory reset does not delete the sdcard. Tried it myself a couple of weeks ago !
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No. This was a complete stock phone. Nothing was ever done to with to modify it.
vin4yak said:
You will have to install a custom rom if you want UMS... If you want it on stock rom, then you need to have root access... There's a thread here on XDA but I don't know the link of it... tried searching but can't find it anywhere... strange!
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I can use fastboot to flash a custom firmware without S-OFF right? Is there even a method of enabling S-OFF and gaining root access on stock ROM? The UMS support would be what I need.
So you unlocked it and then tried to retrieve the pictures, am i right ?
Then its lost because unlocking the bootloader wipes everything including sdcard.
Mr Hofs said:
So you unlocked it and then tried to retrieve the pictures, am i right ?
Then its lost because unlocking the bootloader wipes everything including sdcard.
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Please excuse me for my lack of knowledge of HTC phones. When you say "unlock", I assume that means to root the phone; to root the phone you need to have S-OFF before you can even flash a new bootloader.
The only this I did was was "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" from http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/95. This didn't actually change my recovery from HBOOT, it still boots to HBOOT when holding Power+Volume Down (I realise why now because it says on that page "You must be S-OFF or have taken HTC's unlock to use a recovery on your device!"). The phone is S-ON so techinally it didn't really do anything...?
You can unlock the bootloader (not to s-off, not possible as if now) but in unlocked state you can flash recoverys and flashing a recovery with a locked bootloader will also fail.
Did you unlock the bootloader via the htcdev website ? And then flash a custom recovery ?
Mr Hofs said:
You can unlock the bootloader (not to s-off, not possible as if now) but in unlocked state you can flash recoverys and flashing a recovery with a locked bootloader will also fail.
Did you unlock the bootloader via the htcdev website ? And then flash a custom recovery ?
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I was actually going to do this so in hope that I could flash CWM and then mount the SD card via USB through the CWM recovery, but I got as far as typing "fastboot oem get_identifier_token" which failed with an error so I stopped there.
I think I've missed something here. I still have my CMD prompt open and looked up to see exactly what happened:
C:\Users\Rob\Downloads\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20130522\sdk\platform-tools>fas
tboot.exe flash recovery "..\..\..\openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-endeavoru.img"
sending 'recovery' (6788 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.955s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.161s
So it actually failed the flash (because the phone is S-ON I guess). Yet this somehow kickstarted the phone and it now boots up flawlessly.
Flashing fail is not due to s-off but because the bootloader is probably still locked. You can check that on the bootloader screen.
But unlocking wipes the whole phone so you lose the pictures at that point anyway
Mr Hofs said:
Flashing fail is not due to s-off but because the bootloader is probably still locked. You can check that on the bootloader screen.
But unlocking wipes the whole phone so you lose the pictures at that point anyway
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I took a picture to show the details (see attached).
So I'm not able to mount the SD as UMS to run recovery software without unlocking the bootloader, flashing a new recovery and then flashing a custom ROM?
Hello,
I, ve been reading xda for many years and had many android devices (recently SGSII for 2 years). I have quite an experience flashing roms, using recoveries etc... But this time on HTC One X+ (international) I really need XDA users help, thats why I decided to write this post.
I know it's OneX forum, but maybe someone experienced this problem and devices are similar.
I have a new unbranded HOX+, managed to unlock its bootloader, flash TWRP (for my version of HOX+) and from there flash superuser.zip. All worked ok (didn't produce any errors). Root is ok. But after a while, when I turned on the phone and tried to install an APK from PlayStore or read gmail - phone rebooted.
And it stills constanly do this whatever I try to do. Phone reboots whithout any change. I cannot relock bootloader, wipe, flash, install apps or copy files to phone. Every time I try to simpy use it, it just reboots with state reverted to the moment of first boot after rooting. If I leave it alone it still reboots, but after a while.
Adb and fastboot connections are available , but it looks like they are unable to commit any change. Stock rom with TWRP. I can boot to TWRP, but nothing there give a result. I can wipe, format, fix permissions, it all says operation went ok, but after a reboot, my system is unchanged.
Fastboot flashes of boot.img or recovery.img report success, but after reboot kernel / recovery aren't changed. Same with relocking bootloader, it reports that has been locked, and in bootloader mode i still see big, pink "UNLOCKED". So I also cannot flash RUU.
It seems I am unable to normally use my brand new smartphone and change anything.
Does anyone have a clue how to fix it?
Please help. I desperately need suggestions.
Thanks.
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A tried ADB sideload today, but after the file is sideloaded it can't be flashed - TWRP considers it corrupted and it vanishes after rebooting - AS EVERY CHANGE
I hope I didn't ruined my phone the first hour I got it, and XDA members could still help me. PLEASE
Tried flash a custom Rom..?
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Thanks for reply.
I did try, but I am unable to copy zip to device memory. Adb sideload didn't work either. File was copied but flash reported it as corrupted. I tried couple of times with few custom roms
7virage7 said:
Thanks for reply.
I did try, but I am unable to copy zip to device memory. Adb sideload didn't work either. File was copied but flash reported it as corrupted. I tried couple of times with few custom roms
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and you can not mount usb in recovery..?
mmhh..as i read you are no beginner...so mmhhh...
if you can not flash original recovery and boot and than relock bootloader to flash firmware again...i also did not know
Alex-V said:
and you can not mount usb in recovery..?
mmhh..as i read you are no beginner...so mmhhh...
if you can not flash original recovery and boot and than relock bootloader to flash firmware again...i also did not know
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TWRP for OneX+ does not allow to mount usb, or al least I can't find that option.
It seems it's kind of emmc chip failure, but unfortunatelly i can't relock bootloader so HTC warranty service probably wouldn't fix it
7virage7 said:
TWRP for OneX+ does not allow to mount usb, or al least I can't find that option.
It seems it's kind of emmc chip failure, but unfortunatelly i can't relock bootloader so HTC warranty service probably wouldn't fix it
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And cwm..not tried or will not flash
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Alex-V said:
And cwm..not tried or will not flash
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I tried CWM from XDA (coz there is no official CWM for OneX+), it flashed (as reported by fastboot), but after reboot I still had my old TWRP.
7virage7 said:
I tried CWM from XDA (coz there is no official CWM for OneX+), it flashed (as reported by fastboot), but after reboot I still had my old TWRP.
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It SOUNDS like your phone has gone read-only...I know it's happened to some people when flashing certain kernels, happened with one of Trip's a while back.
I have no idea what to do about it, if anything.
Tigerlight said:
It SOUNDS like your phone has gone read-only...I know it's happened to some people when flashing certain kernels, happened with one of Trip's a while back.
I have no idea what to do about it, if anything.
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Yeah, thats exactly what happened. Nothing seems to affect it's state. My phone trully is Read-Only
7virage7 said:
Yeah, thats exactly what happened. Nothing seems to affect it's state. My phone trully is Read-Only
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I'm pretty sure your only recourse is HTC for repair.
Hey pals. I have an issue with my DHD...I am running CyanogenMod 10.1 and yesturday someone messed with the developer options and chose to emulate a 1024x760, or something like that, display. The phone froze and I had to remove the battery to shut it down...However when I try to do a factory reset through CWM recovery the phone freezes on the HTC logo and when I try to boot It freezes before reaching the home screen. I realized that this phone can't boot normally now cos the display emulation i talked about earlier is causing an issue, and the situation has been complicated by the fact that I cant use CWM recovery...So I cant acces the phone completely...So I am wondering if there is a way to undo that setting without using CWM recovery...Something like maybe removing the battery or opening it up n remove something for some time etc. Any help will be appreciated.
Hey
How did you root?
Are you S-OFF?
-Sent from Guy's phone via Tapatalk
Get a ruu to restore at the last case if nothing works. BUT. Try to go to fastboot and flash recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46369904 from there since its probably a bad install
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Try boot into boot loader plug in via usb then select fastboot
After that do fastboot flash recovery
(what name of recovery) then wait a littlw then try boot into recovery
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JustPlayingHard said:
Try boot into boot loader plug in via usb then select fastboot
After that do fastboot flash recovery
(what name of recovery) then wait a littlw then try boot into recovery...btw I used AAHK to root.
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Thanks dudes...feels good to have a community to run to when u feel trapped...I am gona try fast boot and then flashing recovery...I'll tell you what happens...I appreciate!
XDA_h3n said:
Get a ruu to restore at the last case if nothing works. BUT. Try to go to fastboot and flash recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46369904 from there since its probably a bad install
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Hey XDA_h3n what is a ruu? Could be worth a try since when i go to fastboot I have 4 options which are 1. Bootloader 2. Reboot 3. Reboot bootloader and 4. Power down. So I go for he reboot option n the phone just tries to reboot n it hangs again just before the home screen...Thanks
GuyInTheCorner said:
Hey
How did you root?
Are you S-OFF?
-Sent from Guy's phone via Tapatalk
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Yap due I am S-OFF. I used the AAHK...
Albertraviss said:
Yap due I am S-OFF. I used the AAHK...
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You are s-off dont use ruu, it may make you s-on.
Press Fastboot then do the flashing from cmd cd to your your-android-sdk-folder-location-here/platform-tools/fastboot.exe like cd c:/android/ then do fastboot flash recovery.img and make sure you have recovery.img in your tools folder. You can find a .img from the thread I posted previously (http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2317202&d=1381475742) in this example extract it place .img in the platform-tools location and rename the .img to recovery.img
Flashing a ruu wont make you loose s-off, it makes you loose root. Two completely different things.
Your issue happened when you did the factory reset.
One possible solution is to:
Flash ruu
Flash a recovery
Flash rom
As long as your phone is recognized by your pc (which may not due to having done tue factory reset - can't remember if it does or doesn't), then you should be good to go.
Sent from a dream.
Teichopsia said:
Flashing a ruu wont make you loose s-off, it makes you loose root. Two completely different things.
Your issue happened when you did the factory reset.
One possible solution is to:
Flash ruu
Flash a recovery
Flash rom
As long as your phone is recognized by your pc (which may not due to having done tue factory reset - can't remember if it does or doesn't), then you should be good to go.
Sent from a dream.
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Unfortunately the PC is not recognizing the phone anymore...Do u think I can do it by SD card...i.e renaming the stock ROM or Recovery to PD98IMG.zip and putting it on the root of SD card? I guess the solution has to not involve USB connectivity
Albertraviss said:
Unfortunately the PC is not recognizing the phone anymore...Do u think I can do it by SD card...i.e renaming the stock ROM or Recovery to PD98IMG.zip and putting it on the root of SD card? I guess the solution has to not involve USB connectivity
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Sounds reasonable, but not quite sure. I can't remember if you can flash a rom that way. I would suggest to do a proper search, read and see what you can find in that regard.
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Teichopsia said:
Sounds reasonable, but not quite sure. I can't remember if you can flash a rom that way. I would suggest to do a proper search, read and see what you can find in that regard.
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Well in my research (back in 2010) to flash a ruu with a previous version you need a gold card. After you get the ruu as a PDxxxxx.zip format (look for a desire hd one as others will brick your phone) and place it in the root of your sd card. Reboot your phone in recovery and press vol+ to flash, and wait for 10-20mins and your phone should be alive.
Some sd's dont work with gold cards (in my experience, a kingston 16gb didn't work but a samsung 8gb did for some reason)
I guess the journey just ended...I renamed the touch recovery zip file to PG....zip and booted into bootloader. I was required to confirm if I wanted to upate n I chose yes...and voilà I got recovery touch installed this time for real....did a factory reset n everything is just fine now...I appreciate all the help from you guys. I wonder how I gan tag this thread as solved...
Albertraviss said:
I guess the journey just ended...I renamed the touch recovery zip file to PG....zip and booted into bootloader. I was required to confirm if I wanted to upate n I chose yes...and voilà I got recovery touch installed this time for real....did a factory reset n everything is just fine now...I appreciate all the help from you guys. I wonder how I gan tag this thread as solved...
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Good to know you got it solved, you can just add the tag [SOLVED] in the title or something similar.:good: