[Q}Stuck in Boot loop after guru reset and OTA.

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

I'm on a HTC One with unlocked bootloader S-ON and CID T-MOB101 and had previously updated my phone to 4.4.2 with hboot 1.57 and Sense 5.5. I was then using ARHD 71.1 and now I'm trying to use the following Guru reset:
htc1guru.com/dld/guru_reset_m7_2-24-111-3-zip/

To restore back to stock..

After installing the guru reset and choosing to flash stock recovery my phone boots up to android 4.2.2. Afterwards I'm able to receive OTA updates and the first two minor updates are installed without any problems.. However when the 4.3 update with sense 5.5 is installed, my phone ends up in a boot loop.. I've tried this a couple of times and the same thing always happen

I've even tried restoring via nandroid backup instead, and then manually flashing the stock recovery, but the same thing happens again..
I read someone having the exact same issue here:
[htc1guru.com/downloads/stock-rom-downloads/#comment-31339

Anyone know what could be causing these problems? Has it got anything to do with hboot 1.57?

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

Yup it has everything to do with hboot 1.57, you need to either downgrade your hboot (s-off required) or find a newer guru reset or nandroid, it's bootlooping because the ota isn't recognizing the newer hboot

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

Seanie280672 said:
Yup it has everything to do with hboot 1.57, you need to either downgrade your hboot (s-off required) or find a newer guru reset or nandroid, it's bootlooping because the ota isn't recognizing the newer hboot

Thanks for the reply!

I was only available to find a nandroid backup for firmware 3.63.111.3. That includes hboot 1.55. But I'm pretty sure the OTA update available to that firmware is the firmware package that includes hboot 1.57.

Would the OTA work then? Or do i need to flash a nandroid backup that includes hboot 1.57 in ordet to pull OTA updates?

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

tayfootball said:
Thanks for the reply!

I was only available to find a nandroid backup for firmware 3.63.111.3. That includes hboot 1.55. But I'm pretty sure the OTA update available to that firmware is the firmware package that includes hboot 1.57.

Would the OTA work then? Or do i need to flash a nandroid backup that includes hboot 1.57 in ordet to pull OTA updates?

That ota your on about will probably have 1.56 in it, you will need to find a guru reset or nandroid which contains either hboot 1.56 or 1.57.

Or you can flash a custom Rom and try and get s-off which will resolve all your problems

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

Seanie280672 said:
That ota your on about will probably have 1.56 in it, you will need to find a guru reset or nandroid which contains either hboot 1.56 or 1.57.

Or you can flash a custom Rom and try and get s-off which will resolve all your problems

The thing is I remember that on firmware 3.63.111.3 it was hboot 1.55 and on 4.20.111.21 it was hboot 1.57.

I flashed the 3.63.111.3 backup and got a OTA prompt to update to 4.20.111.21.

The update failed midthrough, and i got a red triangle.. I pressed the power button and the volume up button.. The error message was this:

"Check: /data/preload/TMI_MobileTV_at.apk failt. error no such file or directory"

Any idea what that means?

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

tayfootball said:
The thing is I remember that on firmware 3.63.111.3 it was hboot 1.55 and on 4.20.111.21 it was hboot 1.57.

I flashed the 3.63.111.3 backup and got a OTA prompt to update to 4.20.111.21.

The update failed midthrough, and i got a red triangle.. I pressed the power button and the volume up button.. The error message was this:

Any idea what that means?

yup, there is a load of apps stored in data/preload, apps like calculator and flashlight etc, the apps and the contents get deleted when you unlock your bootloader, its HTC's way of catching you out and stopping you getting any OTA's, they can be replaced but not easily, see if you can find the 3.63.111.3 original OTA and you can grab them out of that.

3.63.111.3 comes with HBOOT 1.55
4.20.111.21 comes with HBOOT 1.56
5.??.???.?? comes with HBOOT 1.57

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

Seanie280672 said:
yup, there is a load of apps stored in data/preload, apps like calculator and flashlight etc, the apps and the contents get deleted when you unlock your bootloader, its HTC's way of catching you out and stopping you getting any OTA's, they can be replaced but not easily, see if you can find the 3.63.111.3 original OTA and you can grab them out of that.

3.63.111.3 comes with HBOOT 1.55
4.20.111.21 comes with HBOOT 1.56
5.??.???.?? comes with HBOOT 1.57

Just to be sure, should i grab the 3.63.111.3 OTA file or the 4.20.111.21 OTA file(since 4.20.111.21 is the one i'm trying to install)?
Should I just grab that specifik apk and install them on my phone?

Hmm but on my bootloader screen it says firmware 4.20.111.21 and hboot 1.57..

The thing is this firmware was rolled out during the time the rest of the world got sense 6.. And I remember I was surprised to see the jump from hboot 1.55 to 1.57 even though 4.20.111.21 still was on Sense 5.5.

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

tayfootball said:
Just to be sure, should i grab the 3.63.111.3 OTA file or the 4.20.111.21 OTA file(since that's the one i'm trying to install)?

Hmm but on my bootloader screen it says firmware 4.20.111.21 and hboot 1.57..

The thing is this firmware was rolled out during the time the rest of the world got sense 6.. And I remember I was surprised to see the jump from hboot 1.55 to 1.57 even though 4.20.111.21 still was on Sense 5.5.

grab this OTA 3.63.111.3, its just a zip file, put it on your computer and open it up with WinRAR, pull the data/preload folder from it a copy it to your phone using root browser etc, put it in the data preload folder on your phone, if it doesn't exist then create it, you will then need to change the permissions of the folder and contents, the OTA your after then should work.

Strange about the HBOOT

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

Seanie280672 said:
grab this OTA 3.63.111.3, its just a zip file, put it on your computer and open it up with WinRAR, pull the data/preload folder from it a copy it to your phone using root browser etc, put it in the data preload folder on your phone, if it doesn't exist then create it, you will then need to change the permissions of the folder and contents, the OTA your after then should work.

Strange about the HBOOT

I am only able to find the 4.20.111.21 OTA file..

would it work grabbing the preload folder from there?

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

tayfootball said:
I am only able to find the 4.20.111.21 OTA file.. would it work grabbing the preload folder from there?

if there is one, then yes, defo try it, as far as im aware, the ota just checks the folder and contents exist on your phone.

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

Seanie280672 said:
if there is one, then yes, defo try it, as far as im aware, the ota just checks the folder and contents exist on your phone.

Ok thanks! Gonna try it now!

Sorry for asking a thousand questions, but just one final one..

What permissions am I supposed to set on the folder and the files in preload when moving them?

Should i choose:
Set UID, Set GID or Sticky ?

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

tayfootball said:
Ok thanks! Gonna try it now!

Sorry for asking a thousand questions, but just one final one..

What permissions am I supposed to set on the folder and the files in preload when moving them?

Should i choose:
Set UID, Set GID or Sticky ?

set the folder to rwxrwx-x

and the contents to rw-r-r-

tayfootball · Jul 15, 2014

Seanie280672 said:
set the folder to rwxrwx-x

and the contents to rw-r-r-

thank you so much!

It worked past that, but the install still failed at the end..

this time i got the message

set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed

Installation aborted

Do you have any idea on this one..?

Seanie280672 · Jul 15, 2014

tayfootball said:
thank you so much!

It worked past that, but the install still failed at the end..

this time i got the message

Do you have any idea on this one..?

Do you have the correct stock recovery installed for your current firmware version ? ie you have stock recovery for 3.63.111.3

this is a new one on me

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