Hello 
So here is the situation. A friend of mine recently dug up his 5 year old HTC One M8 and he would like to access the data saved on that device.
However, when powering on, the device quickly boots into fastboot. Upon choosing the "hboot" option, the phone quickly boots into yet another instance of fastboot, this time however the option to boot into recovery has appeared. Unfortunately however, when choosing to boot into recovery, the phone just simply returns to fastboot.
What is curious about this is that he never really modified the phone at all or the recovery (stock recovery should be installed).
Therefore the bootloader is locked . Interestingly, fastboot displays the following information when booting:
I am mostly at a loss here.. Do you people maybe have an idea on how to fix this issue?
Supposedly the phone hasn't been touched for 5 years now and even before that long hiatus, essential files haven't been touched. The phone is locked and has never been rooted.. Apart from it sitting in a drawer for 5 years, there should be nothing unusual about it.
Could the flash memory have degraded over that long time? If so, that would be an absolute first for me.
Do you guys have any solutions on how to access the file system somehow?
Some pictures of the boot process:
Fastboot shortly after powering on the device:
After choosing "HBOOT" from the previous screen, this comes up, adding the option to boot into recovery (which does not work):
Curious: After pressing the power button to turn on the device, this text appears for a split second:
So here is the situation. A friend of mine recently dug up his 5 year old HTC One M8 and he would like to access the data saved on that device.
However, when powering on, the device quickly boots into fastboot. Upon choosing the "hboot" option, the phone quickly boots into yet another instance of fastboot, this time however the option to boot into recovery has appeared. Unfortunately however, when choosing to boot into recovery, the phone just simply returns to fastboot.
What is curious about this is that he never really modified the phone at all or the recovery (stock recovery should be installed).
Therefore the bootloader is locked . Interestingly, fastboot displays the following information when booting:
Code:
*** Software status: Modified ***
** LOCKED ***
** Security Warning ***
M8_UL PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT- 3.19.0.0000
RADIO-1.29.214500021.12G
OpenDSP-v 51.2.2-00593-M8974_FO.1015
OS-6.12.401.4
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Dec 17 2015,14:15:48.0Supposedly the phone hasn't been touched for 5 years now and even before that long hiatus, essential files haven't been touched. The phone is locked and has never been rooted.. Apart from it sitting in a drawer for 5 years, there should be nothing unusual about it.
Could the flash memory have degraded over that long time? If so, that would be an absolute first for me.
Do you guys have any solutions on how to access the file system somehow?
Some pictures of the boot process:
Fastboot shortly after powering on the device:
After choosing "HBOOT" from the previous screen, this comes up, adding the option to boot into recovery (which does not work):
Curious: After pressing the power button to turn on the device, this text appears for a split second:
