[Q] Completely wiped my One X, cannot mount usb, no backups, need backups

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Hello everybody,
This is my first post on XDA, although I've visited the site oftne

Anyways:
Yesterday I successfully rooted my One X and unlocked its bootloader. I also installed CWM recovery.

As the day came to a close I tried to install LC_MOD in an attempt to change the multitasking softkey to a menu button.

I did not make a backup, and the phone had no backups.

Needless to say the phone wouldnt boot. I panicked and in blind fear sortof erased everything off of my phone. everything. What I basically did was i went into advanced settings and formatted my /sdcard and all those other folders, hoping that would solve the issue (a simple data/cache wipe didnt work). So much data has been erased from the phone that I cannot even mount usb storage through CWM because im missing a file.

So, I come to you all, you gods of the tech world, with my head bowed, to ask for your help. I have literally tried everything in my power to fix the issue. I tried to install custom roms manually, that didnt work. I tried to install an RUU, and even that didnt work (the software could not detect my device). This was all made even more difficult because I myself have a mac, and much of the software I had to use was windows based, which led me on a journey to create a virtual machine.

I know i messed up, and what I'm really hoping someone out there cn do is upload one of their own backups of their One X's software, and show me how to use that to restore my phone.

Somebody out there please please help me :'(

Hi;

There is a reason all developers here shout out loud:
1- BACKUP YOUR PHONE BEFORE YOU F*** IT UP
2- DO NOT DO ANYTHING UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY KNOW HOW TO

But anyways, you ruined it, you should get it back, Hopefully you did not drain the battery below 30%, in that case keep on reading the next paragraph, but if you dropped the battery below 30, you should go to CWM Recovery, connect your phone to charger, and wait until it's charged properly...


After charging the phone, you need the correct RUU for your phone... As it seems, you don't know what you're doing, so go to fastboot, type this command:

fastboot oem readcid

Then post the code here in this topic, so someone can help you find the correct RUU for your phone...
After that go to THIS topic and follow the part where it says "If you DON'T have custom rom or Nandroid backup on internal SD card"

Thanks :)

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Thanks a bunch bro!! And ye i get that it was completely my fault. I normally do backup before i do anything, but i guess i was just a bit too anxious. And I think you've told me everything i need to know, ill get that code out to you asap... And you're right, i seriously have no clue what im doing ^.^, I've never F***ed up this hard on any phone before

Originally Posted by Xial649

Thanks a bunch bro!! And ye i get that it was completely my fault. I normally do backup before i do anything, but i guess i was just a bit too anxious. And I think you've told me everything i need to know, ill get that code out to you asap... And you're right, i seriously have no clue what im doing ^.^, I've never F***ed up this hard on any phone before

Don't worry, with the correct version of RUU you can restore your phone...

Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

Next?

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Alright I got the code:

<bootloader> DEBUG: cid: VODAP102

Whats next?

Originally Posted by Xial649

Alright I got the code:

<bootloader> DEBUG: cid: VODAP102

Whats next?

Your phone is from Voda Germany, and most probabely your correct RUU is this:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/t7qugfd3ey9/n/RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_Vodafone_CH-DE_1.26.166.2_Radio_1.1204.90.13_release_251279_signed.exe

Download it. Hopefully it would be the correct RUU for your phone.

1- Now open the exe file you just downloaded and make sure that it fully started.
2- Don't click anything, just open "Computer" (formerly known as my computer) in windows and enter %temp% in your address bar.
3- You will now see some folders, just search through these folders for the ROM.zip (using windows search function)
4- When you found it, copy it to your desktop.
5- Extract it with WinRar,7-zip or something like that and take the boot_signed.img and system.img.
6- Now copy the two files into the folder where the fastboot.exe is placed (if you have installed the Android SDK, it should be in platform-tools)
7- Go to your One X, go into the bootloader and go into fastboot mode. then connect your phone to computer.
8- Open CMD and navigate to the folder in which you have the two images and the fastboot file. (using cd command and after that the address you want to go to)
9- Now type in that

fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img

10- Now this one

fastboot flash system system.img

if all this is successful, you can just reboot your phone and everything is OK.

If you can't do any of these, let us now, we will help you through it...
Good lock

---------- Post added at 03:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:41 PM ----------

In other note, RUUs are build to do an stand alone recovery of your phone. So you can first try, just running the RUU application and following the instruction given in the RUU. it may work correctly

This is good

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Alright so i got everything going after downloading the RUU and it was in the process of restoring my phone, but then it said my battery went below 30% so i needed to recharge. At that point i had to leave, and so I noticed that if i left my phone in the booting animation (HTC logo) the LED light indicated that the phone was charging. Since I wasnt entirely convinced that my CWM recovery was actually charging the phone, i left it on booting while connected to my pc and hopefully itll be fully charged and ready to be restored tomorrow..... I really appreciate all the help you've given me man you've practically saved my life here , and I'd like to say that you've made my first cry for help a simple and smooth one.... Thank you very much my friend

Problem

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Ok so we have a new problem, the system.img file didnt flash. I tried and it said "FAILED"
What now??

& is the boot image supposed to only be around 4300 kb?

Could the sending of "system" failed because my phone had less than 30% batterylife???? & if its in Clockworkmod recovery5.8.4 while connected to an outlet will it be charging???

Edit: I've searched around and I saw this one guy who extracted the "boot_signed.img" and the "recovery_signed.img" (NOT the system.img), flashed them onto his phone, locked the bootloader with "fastboot oem lock", and then RAN the RUU..... He said he bricked his phone, and the situation he described is similar to mine. Any thoughts on which method of the two (yours and his) i should use?


Thanks again :3

Originally Posted by Xial649

Ok so we have a new problem, the system.img file didnt flash. I tried and it said "FAILED"
What now??

& is the boot image supposed to only be around 4300 kb?

Could the sending of "system" failed because my phone had less than 30% batterylife???? & if its in Clockworkmod recovery5.8.4 while connected to an outlet will it be charging???

Edit: I've searched around and I saw this one guy who extracted the "boot_signed.img" and the "recovery_signed.img" (NOT the system.img), flashed them onto his phone, locked the bootloader with "fastboot oem lock", and then RAN the RUU..... He said he bricked his phone, and the situation he described is similar to mine. Any thoughts on which method of the two (yours and his) i should use?


Thanks again :3

That's another method you can try, boot_signed is the stock kernel (and yes it's that small) and the recovery_signed is the stock recovery...

Since my previously mentioned method didn't work, do this:
1- flash the boot_signed.img into your device (fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img)
2- flash the recovery_signed.img in the device (fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img)
3- erase cache (fastboot erase cache)
4- lock your phone (fastboot oem lock)
5- now try again to flash the system image (fastboot flash system system.img)

And also, try having around 40% battery to do all this, don't let the battery drops under 30%

ALRIGHT!!!!

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alright man!!!! that sounds like a plan... First thing tomorrow I'm going to try this method out.... and btw the RUU you linked me wasnt exactly working right (the software kept saying i had the wrong ruu), so i searched around and found someone with the same CID (VODAP102) and apperantly the uk RUU works fine on it, so i guess ill use that one ye? And btw does the bootloader have to be unlocked before i can flash these items? because i do believe its locked atm....