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I was just brought a phone that's stuck at a screen with a red exclamation point in a triangle. He said he had installed the latest version of TWRP and was trying to install Xposed from recovery. At one point it was stuck booting in to TWRP recovery and after some messing around he got it stuck on the stock recovery screen. He brought it to me and now we can't get it to do anything - doesn't show up in adb or fastboot devices and can't turn it off. I have no idea what to do...?

Edit: Well, just sitting there on the desk it suddenly rebooted in to TWRP on its own. Still stuck booting in to TWRP now.
 
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Trying holding power and volume up at same time, as soon as it shuts down switch to holding power and volume down helpfully that will get you to boot loader

HTC One (M8)
 
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Ok, I'm lost now. We got it in to fastboot and flashed CWM to the recovery partition. Now, if it reboots in to recovery, we see CWM, and if we try to reboot to system it opens TWRP. Did he flash TWRP to the wrong partition or something? What do I do from here?
 
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qoncept said:
Ok, I'm lost now. We got it in to fastboot and flashed CWM to the recovery partition. Now, if it reboots in to recovery, we see CWM, and if we try to reboot to system it opens TWRP. Did he flash TWRP to the wrong partition or something? What do I do from here?
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sounds like system is wiped flash a rom
 
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Grr, androidfilehost.com is blocked at work and I can't find a single rom anywhere else. He swears there's no way he could have wiped system -- is there anything else that could be wrong?
 
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qoncept said:
Grr, androidfilehost.com is blocked at work and I can't find a single rom anywhere else. He swears there's no way he could have wiped system -- is there anything else that could be wrong?
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he did something he shouldnt have
i dont think its anything else other then maybe a bad rom flash or like you said flash recovery to wrong partition i dunno, if you boot to system and it doesn't boot system thats a good sign there is no system to boot to

try this its not on androidfilehost,
http://goo.im/devs/Turge/ViperOneM8/ViperOneM8_1.3.0.zip
http://www.ab-ed.de/baadnewz/m8/insertcoin_sense6_m8-2.3.2.zip
 
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qoncept said:
Grr, androidfilehost.com is blocked at work and I can't find a single rom anywhere else. He swears there's no way he could have wiped system -- is there anything else that could be wrong?
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Sounds to me like TWRP got flashed to the "boot" partition. That's why you were able to flash CWM (presumably correctly), then "reboot system" from CWM but instead go into TWRP. Now that you have a recovery in the "recovery" partition you just need to flash a ROM within CWM and you'll be good to go.

I heard that the TWRP abd terminal instruction on their website are wrong and will cause this problem (flashing recovery to the "boot" partition). I always flash recoveries (and boot.img's for my other s-on devices)) via fastboot since I can easily understand the syntax.

Fastboot flash <partition> <filename>
 
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Alright, it looks like he tried to flash a bad zip like you guys say. He wants a stock rom - can I use the stock RUU without wiping data or is he going to end up with a fresh phone no matter what?
 
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qoncept said:
Alright, it looks like he tried to flash a bad zip like you guys say. He wants a stock rom - can I use the stock RUU without wiping data or is he going to end up with a fresh phone no matter what?
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he can use RUU, he can use this stock rom
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2722699 (but it hosted at androidfile)

these are stock'ish( these arent androidfile)
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2727300
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2722927
 
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Sigh.. I'm getting this when I try to flash the RUU:

Code: 
C:\phone\Data>fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip
target reported max download size of 1830711296 bytes
sending 'zip' (1572932 KB)...
OKAY [ 47.228s]
writing 'zip'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 47.237s

Edit: Same with all other zips.
 
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qoncept said:
Sigh.. I'm getting this when I try to flash the RUU:

Code: 
C:\phone\Data>fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip
target reported max download size of 1830711296 bytes
sending 'zip' (1572932 KB)...
OKAY [ 47.228s]
writing 'zip'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 47.237s

Edit: Same with all other zips.
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Since you can get into recovery (pretty sure CWM is the recovery properly installed in this case) you should just download a ROM and put it on the phone's SD Card (always check md5) and install it through CWM. If he wants stock, at least give him a pretty stock ROM like one from here:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708291
Keep the command line stuff to a minimum and use the GUI of the recovery, that's why they're there.
 
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Ok, I got that BoneStock rom installed. BlinkFeed is crashing occasionally (he's using a different launcher) which is annoying but at least it works. Is there a way to get back to the stock rom from this? What will happen if he tries to do a software update?

Could I flash this?
 
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qoncept said:
Ok, I got that BoneStock rom installed. BlinkFeed is crashing occasionally (he's using a different launcher) which is annoying but at least it works. Is there a way to get back to the stock rom from this? What will happen if he tries to do a software update?
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If you really insist on a true stock, unrooted phone, I'd say your easiest options are either the RUU'ish option you seem to have already tried or you could look to the nandroid someone posted in this forum of his stock setup.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2725001
Note that the nandroid was made with TWRP so you'll have to replace your CWM with TWRP (hopefully correctly this time :D)

Personally, I'm a fan so far of the ViperOne ROM while I'm waiting for a stable AOSP ROM. That's entirely up to you though.
 
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cntryby429 said:
If you really insist on a true stock, unrooted phone, I'd say your easiest options are either the RUU'ish option you seem to have already tried or you could look to the nandroid someone posted in this forum of his stock setup.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2725001
Note that the nandroid was made with TWRP so you'll have to replace your CWM with TWRP (hopefully correctly this time :D)

Personally, I'm a fan so far of the ViperOne ROM while I'm waiting for a stable AOSP ROM. That's entirely up to you though.
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He just wants to get it back to bone stock so when he goes and tries again he knows what he's dealing with. It looks like restoring the system partition from that nandroid backup did it. Thanks a lot for your help!
 
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    Karl
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    qoncept said:
    Grr, androidfilehost.com is blocked at work and I can't find a single rom anywhere else. He swears there's no way he could have wiped system -- is there anything else that could be wrong?
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    he did something he shouldnt have
    i dont think its anything else other then maybe a bad rom flash or like you said flash recovery to wrong partition i dunno, if you boot to system and it doesn't boot system thats a good sign there is no system to boot to

    try this its not on androidfilehost,
    http://goo.im/devs/Turge/ViperOneM8/ViperOneM8_1.3.0.zip
    http://www.ab-ed.de/baadnewz/m8/insertcoin_sense6_m8-2.3.2.zip
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    cntryby429
    cntryby429
    qoncept said:
    Grr, androidfilehost.com is blocked at work and I can't find a single rom anywhere else. He swears there's no way he could have wiped system -- is there anything else that could be wrong?
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    Sounds to me like TWRP got flashed to the "boot" partition. That's why you were able to flash CWM (presumably correctly), then "reboot system" from CWM but instead go into TWRP. Now that you have a recovery in the "recovery" partition you just need to flash a ROM within CWM and you'll be good to go.

    I heard that the TWRP abd terminal instruction on their website are wrong and will cause this problem (flashing recovery to the "boot" partition). I always flash recoveries (and boot.img's for my other s-on devices)) via fastboot since I can easily understand the syntax.

    Fastboot flash <partition> <filename>
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    Karl
    Karl
    qoncept said:
    Alright, it looks like he tried to flash a bad zip like you guys say. He wants a stock rom - can I use the stock RUU without wiping data or is he going to end up with a fresh phone no matter what?
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    he can use RUU, he can use this stock rom
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2722699 (but it hosted at androidfile)

    these are stock'ish( these arent androidfile)
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2727300
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2722927
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    1
    cntryby429
    cntryby429
    qoncept said:
    Sigh.. I'm getting this when I try to flash the RUU:

    Code: 
    C:\phone\Data>fastboot flash zip 0P6BIMG.zip
target reported max download size of 1830711296 bytes
sending 'zip' (1572932 KB)...
OKAY [ 47.228s]
writing 'zip'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 47.237s

    Edit: Same with all other zips.
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    Since you can get into recovery (pretty sure CWM is the recovery properly installed in this case) you should just download a ROM and put it on the phone's SD Card (always check md5) and install it through CWM. If he wants stock, at least give him a pretty stock ROM like one from here:
    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2708291
    Keep the command line stuff to a minimum and use the GUI of the recovery, that's why they're there.
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