Softbricked to download mode, unsure which versions are in my phone

I have a few specific questions at the bottom, but first, here's the long details:

I ran the custom ROM Hyperdrive RLS 16 (4.1.2) for years and loved it, but the past week I felt it was time to upgrade to a new ROM that was more up to date. I started to try out R3ARMED (4.4.2), did a full wipe in CWM and installed the zip files provided (the ROM and a d2att specific file).

Unfortunately, in my excitement I forgot to make sure that I had a 4.4 bootloader and modem, which seems to be rather essential for this particular ROM. The install failed and I thought I may have bricked the device, but I was able to update CWM and get back into recovery mode. This time, I got through the AROMA installer for the new ROM, but on reset I got stuck in a hard bootloop. It's pretty nasty--I can't use the key combination to reboot into recovery or download mode, and I only get as far as the opening "SAMSUNG" screen before the device blacks out. However, I can use a USB jig to force reboot into download mode--it's the only interface I can get with the phone at this point. ODIN recognizes the device, and when I use Heimdall and its drivers, I'm able to use those tools to interact with the phone. So I hope I'm not completely lost, but not being able to access CWM recovery mode definitely hurts.

Here's what I've tried so far to fix it:
- Without a USB jig, load recovery images onto a 16 GB SD card, insert into phone and power up (no successes, some images actually made it so the "SAMSUNG" screen no longer showed, others corrected this issue)
- Re-flash CWM with heimdall (failed)
- Used the Ultimate Android Toolkit to convert the CWM img into a tar that ODIN can flash, and tried to load it (failed)

I'm looking into trying to flash a full recovery onto the phone to see if that can fix it. But I have a few concerns:
1. I know that once my phone gets a 4.4 bootloader and modem, I can't go back to an earlier stock version.
2. I had an unsuccessful 4.1 -> 4.4 install attempt in the process of bricking updating my phone.
3. I have no idea if the install impacted the bootloader--so I don't know whether I can try a 4.3 stock flash or need to use some of the more recent phone dumps.

My first question is, as usual, what is the best route to take to recover this phone?
My second is, are there tools I can use for a phone in ODIN mode to check the version of the bootloader/modem, check on the integrity of the file system, etc. etc.?

I have a replacement phone on its way, but I view this as an excellent learning opportunity, and would love to hear some advice.

Soft-Bricked Desire Eye, please help!

I was in recovery, I have Team Win v2.8.1.0, and I went into advanced > fix permissions, then booted up my phone, and it would not boot up! I really need help please, someone help me out, that would be greatly appreciated!!!

Soft-Bricked: Error mounting /data

So I've been running an htc one M8 on at&t, S-On, bootloader unlocked via htc-dev, with Clockworkmod Recovery and a kitkat version of pac-rom since last December. I've made and have many backups via CWM since then.

Lately its been running slowly (I think some memory leak somewhere? It works for a while but eventually chugs along till something crashes it to the lock screen) so I thought i'd update it finally. I figured i'd update to a lollipop rom and wanted to try out paranoid android to try a rom with just the features I want. Here's everything i've done till now and where I'm at.
1. Backup Everything via titanium backup and CWM
2. Wipe system/data and flash on paranoid android 5.1 from CWM
3. Get told I have too old a bootloader (3.16) and require 3.18-3.19
4. Look around online and see I need to update the firmware, acquired commonly from ota-updates.
5. Look around more and see i'll need to relock my bootloader to do so
6. fastboot oem lock <- this is where I think all my ****-ups started
7. Do something, end up just wanting to restore back to my pac-rom backup <- Don't quite remember everything around this step. I think I was looking around for a firmware update, saw my CID was CWS__001, and ended up deciding to temporarily give up on updating
8. Restore from my backup in CWM, I may have also had the error mounting /data here, don't remember
9. Stuck in pac-rom boot screen
10. Figured it was some error with the bootloader, unlocked again via htc-dev (which in turn wiped phone again)
11. tried restoring from backup, everything works until it needs to mount /data, errors out there, and here I am. Booting it just leaves it stuck at the pac-rom boot screen

I've tried formatting /data from cwm (can't because can't mount it), flashing a stock version of pac-rom from my sd-card via CWM, reflashing my recovery, and maybe some other things i'm forgetting
Anyone know how to fix this? I can't quite figure it out. It seems similar to the issue here, but that was a dead end. Here's the output of adb getvar all, which seems usually requested

Quote:

(bootloader) version: 0.5 (bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.16.0.0000 (bootloader) version-baseband: 1.16.21331931.LA11G (bootloader) version-cpld: None (bootloader) version-microp: None (bootloader) version-main: 1.58.502.1 (bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON (bootloader) meid: 00000000000000 (bootloader) product: m8_ul_ca (bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974 (bootloader) modelid: 0P6B12000 (bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001 (bootloader) battery-status: good (bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV (bootloader) partition-layout: Generic (bootloader) security: on (bootloader) build-mode: SHIP (bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT (bootloader) commitno-bootloader: c3d94491 (bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11 (bootloader) gencheckpt: 0

I may be forgetting some info, so can provide any more if necessary. Any help getting back to my backup, or if I eventually have to return to stock to fix this, get my firmware updated and on a lollipop rom, would be appreciated.

PLEASE HELP! Soft-bricked

So I bought this HTC One M7, the guy claims its soft bricked and hes not able to fix it because hes technically challenged. So I take it home boot it up, its stuck in a boot loop so I boot it into fastboot the bootloader is locked so I try to connect it to adb, no luck, there is no driver on this internet that I have found that will connect to adb. So I resort to fastboot, I "fastboot devices" and sure enough it connects (wicked), first I try to flash recovery, I try to boot recovery, I tried to update zip, no luck in flashing anything because I either get a signature fail or a "remote: not allowed" then I realize my bootloader is locked, I try to unlock it "fastboot oem unlock" and of course I get a "INFO [ERR] command error". I also tried to change my cid to 11111111 and no luck. I have actually tried everything I can think of I cant get s-off to work my recovery is stock as well so theres no possibility of OTG cable plus a usb. My fastboot will not flash anything in fastboot, I cant push any files to the phone, I cant connect to adb, I cant use my recovery. So what in the actual can I do? I think i'm f**ked.

Thank you in advance for anything you can help me with.

P8max softbricked, need system.img

Hi guys,

I accidentally wiped /system from my phone, and now I can't get it back. :(
I've tried downloading the OS zip from the Huawei site and running it from an SD card like it says, but it just fails.
I've also tried extracting system.img from the file with a tool I found here, but it won't flash with fastboot, it just fails saying it can't load the file. It seems like maybe it's encrypted in some way.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this? Can anyone upload a system.img file I can flash to my device?

Thanks

Softbricked X2

Hello!!

As the title says, my X2 became softbricked and I believe it is all due to the incorrect or incompatible TWRP installation from the Google Play Store. My X2 keeps on rebooting. I have tried to go to recovery and wipe the data and cache. I've also attempted to reinstall or downgrade to B106 from B106sp01 but it keeps on saying that it is incompatible. I've searched and read lot of posts on the forum and it brought me to fastboot TWRP recovery which is compatible to the X2. I've worked my way around the TWRP recovery despite the Chinese language and also flashed the B106 system, boot, cust, userdata, etc images through fastboot but I have no luck.

Has anyone been in this kind of problem with their Mediapad X2? please help :crying::crying::crying::crying:

Soft-Bricked

Okay so, I was fiddling around with some applications - user installed ones. Then The device blackscreened I though no biggie It just locked then it went into the boot animation so I waited a few mins then I realized I had softbricked my phone. Now I have a tot file, I have no recovery installed, I was about to install recovery the next day. My device specifically is the E98020h AT&T model. I was not flashing any roms of any sort I have tried flashing stock ROMs to get out of the softbrick and I am a "newbie" to the android flashing things. But most of the guides on here for my phone the links are dead, and the links for the pictures in the tutorials are also dead. Thanks for your time. I would appreciate any help or ideas. Thanks.




Note : I can get into download mode, I have tried Hard Factory reset I get the infamous Boot
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"Factory Hard Reset
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Permanently Erase User Data & Reset Settings?

Press Power key to confirm, and any other key to cancel *I pressed/press power key here*

Are you sure you want to continue with erase?

Press Power key to confirm, and any other key to cancel *presses again*

* Confirmed *
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\ Note the number - which I believe to be the error code is different each time. And these display on the same screen.
[370220]--------------------------------------------------------------------------
[370220]
[370220] Secure booting Error!
[370220] Cause : boot certification verify
[370220]
[370220]--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Updated HDX 8.9 to a new Cyanogen nightly, and soft-bricked. In Recovery mode...

What do I do to avoid permanently bricking this?

Story: Had Cyanogen mod installed on my HDX 8.9"; everything was rosy. Cyanogen kept pestering me with new nightly updates; thought "why not? can't cause any harm now everything's sorted!" Lo and behold, it soft bricked the device. Managed to recover to TWRP. What are my steps from here to get back to the Cyanogen ROM I had before, where everything was perfect (yes, I'm an idiot)?

SoftBrick'ed?

Hi guys, I have big problem, just want to unbrand my software, and when I was doing that, my flashtool stucked on file modem.sin for about 1h, now I can't turn on my phone, when i do that i just see an information about unsuccessful update. Can someone help me please ;/ ?

Soft-Bricked ...

Hi everybody !

I think now i'm in the right place now to post my brick issue question,
so i'm reposting it below.

Here is the thing :

I downloaded some app which was incompatible with my tablet and unfortunately didn't remove it before restarting.
Result ? bricked in endless bootloop until battery runs out .

My main question is :
- can i get it up and running without losing my data ?
or
- can i recover data before reseting it ?

I have lots of questions in relation to this ; but i don't want to make this post any longer now.
Will ask more as the conversation goes along ...

Thanks in advance ! ...

Possibly Soft-Bricked Moto X with flashing recovery screen

Hopefully you guys can help me with my problem. Recently, I downloaded the new Marshmallow app drawer from Android Pit's "Here's how to get Android Marshmallow's new app drawer on Lollipop". It was successfully installed and seemed to be working fine. However, Google Now gave me a message saying that it was not connected to the microphone and that I should reboot my device. Thinking that the actual reboot key combo was power and volume down, I did this and this brought me to the fastboot page. I selected and entered the power up normally option on the top, which the booted my phone to a completely black screen, from which only the "power off" option would show if I held the power button down. I was confused and concluded that the app drawer somehow soft bricked my phone. After reading up on the web, I went into recovery in the fastboot screen, then selected clear cache. Two lines of orange text appeared at the bottom saying that the cache clear was starting and that it was finishing. I hit the power button, tried to boot my phone up, then, recieving another black screen, brought back up the fastboot menu and tried to enter the recovery screen again so that I could factory reset my device. The recovery screen gave me messages about how it could not load the cache, and since then has been flashing on a set interval on my screen (going black, showing the broken Android with "no command" then going black again).

Any ideas on what I can do to fix this problem?

note: (I have not rooted my phone)

[MOVE IT, PLEASE] Deleted OS with no backup (Soft-Bricked)

Hello, guys. How you doing?


I am with a HTC ONE M7 Internation/Unlocked Soft-Bricked, with no OS... Here are some information:
- Using TWRP 2.8.7.0 custom recovery for M7 (latest version)
- Unlocked bootloader
- Rooted (at least I did it before wipping my OS)
- S-ON!
- HBOOT v.1.57
- Already have ADB/Fastboot on my PC

There's my tale:
I tried to install RUU M7 Lollipop ROM, from HTC's website. But, at the very beggining of the instalation (4%), the RUU software said it lost my device. I did it while in fastboot mode, because it was the only way RUU recognized my phone. Then I could not install Lollipop ROM by RUU method, so I decided to flash a Lollipop ROM Unlocked Version for One M7.
I knew that for doing it I would need to install some custom recovery on my phone, unlock its bootloader mode and install on my PC ADB and Fastboot. I did all of this; the bootloader unlocked I did from HTC's website guide. So, I put on my phone a ROM in zip extension, boot it on recovery mode. I read that I should wipe data, cache, calvik cache and, maybe, system. And I did it... with NO BACKUP of original ROM --' I know I was stupid...
So I wipe this partitions, entered Install menu and tried to run instalation of the ROM zip file. It didn't work!!! Some error: "E: error executing updater binary in zip..." :/

Then now I am with a Soft-Bricked HTC ONE M7 which has no OS. Some pics of my status: https: // w w w .dropbox.com/s/ruyen2ikn0u5i0u/Soft-Bricked%20M7.rar?dl=0

I hope you can help me :)

Deleted OS with no backup (Soft-Bricked)

Hello, guys. How you doing?

I am with a HTC ONE M7 Internation/Unlocked Soft-Bricked, with no OS... Here are some information:
- Using TWRP 2.8.7.0 custom recovery for M7 (latest version)
- Unlocked bootloader
- Rooted (at least I did it before wipping my OS)
- S-ON!
- HBOOT v.1.57
- Already have ADB/Fastboot on my PC

There's my tale:
I tried to install RUU M7 Lollipop ROM, from HTC's website. But, at the very beggining of the instalation (4%), the RUU software said it lost my device. I did it while in fastboot mode, because it was the only way RUU recognized my phone. Then I could not install Lollipop ROM by RUU method, so I decided to flash a Lollipop ROM Unlocked Version for One M7.
I knew that for doing it I would need to install some custom recovery on my phone, unlock its bootloader mode and install on my PC ADB and Fastboot. I did all of this; the bootloader unlocked I did from HTC's website guide. So, I put on my phone a ROM in zip extension, boot it on recovery mode. I read that I should wipe data, cache, calvik cache and, maybe, system. And I did it... with NO BACKUP of original ROM --' I know I was stupid...
So I wipe this partitions, entered Install menu and tried to run instalation of the ROM zip file. It didn't work!!! Some error: "E: error executing updater binary in zip..." :/

Then now I am with a Soft-Bricked HTC ONE M7 which has no OS. Some pics of my status: https: // w w w .dropbox.com/s/ruyen2ikn0u5i0u/Soft-Bricked%20M7.rar?dl=0

I hope you can help me :)

Anyone please I need help on my htc one x (softbricked)

Hi, can anyone help me with my problem. I week ago I did flash my htc one x with resurrection ROM. but it failed, actually i dont know if it did really failed coz i can boot up on the system but all apps where stopping with an error almost all apps where not running so I cant do anything with the phone. I did try some resolution but nothing works. i did try to flash new rom but no success again. now i cant access the phone and even the recovery cant access the sdcard and it just stays on the htc logo. I i did try to use the RUU files but no success. I try the other RUU's but it didn't help. I already ask help from htc support but they say they cant support me because they say that my phone's region was from indonesia and that they cant cater my problem. can anyone please help me. Is there any other way to flash back to stock or to flash another rom if i cant access the sdcard of the phone. or can someone send me an RUU for my phone.I'll include here the details of my phone.

hboot 1.73
cidnum htc _044
main_version 4.19.707.5
radio 5.1204.167.31
imei:353426055953822
sn: sh25yw116383
mb: 419g925b24025

Please! I need help.