Okay, so I've got an AT&T M7 that has has (as far as I can tell - a stock version running 4.42 and HTC Sense 6.0) the Software number is 5.12.502.2.
The problem is, that apparently something is extremely corrupted - and I get messages like "Swiftkey has stopped", except replace Swiftkey with tons of other things, as it keeps happening over and over.
If I reboot, any changes that were made (downloads, settings, ANYTHING), apparently gets erased, or is not saved.
I can boot into recovery (which is TWRP 2.7.1.1, and again - any changes I make are not actually written. I can attempt to flash roms (cm, htc1guru stock images, etc.), and they will generally go through the motions of running - and even say 'successful' at the end, but if you reboot after that, everything is still as it was before. No changes at all (think of it like Groundhog Day... every day I can kill myself, eat whatever I want, kill other people(delete stuff, change things, add things) - but after the phone sleeps (aka restarts), the day (aka the phone) is reset as if I did absolutely nothing.)
I have tried wiping cache, data, system, literally EVERYTHING and it does absolutely nothing.
Also, if I try the main Factory Reset from inside the ROM itself, it says it is doing something, but then reboots and everything is back as it was also.
I've tried fastboot boot <insert multiple recovery images multiple times.img>, and it just locks up the phone and I have to hard restart it.
I've tried fastboot flash <new recovery.img> - it actually says successful, but again - does nothing after rebooting.
I am literally going crazy here... I can push files temporarily to the device, and try to do stuff with them, but in the end nothing can seem to make any difference.
I have tried going through htcdev unlock with Unlock_code.bin, and it doesn't do anything.
fastboot oem lock does nothing
Everything I've found says maybe S-OFF would help, but I can't seem to find any way to get that done.
Please, can ANYONE help me figure out how to get this stupid thing to be at all useful again? All help is appreciated. Below is my
e:\Downloads>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.57.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4M.27.3218.14
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main:
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: CENSOREDFORMYPARANOIA
(bootloader) imei: CENSOREDFORMYPARANOIA
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000
(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4272mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-1f512bb6
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.068s
The problem is, that apparently something is extremely corrupted - and I get messages like "Swiftkey has stopped", except replace Swiftkey with tons of other things, as it keeps happening over and over.
If I reboot, any changes that were made (downloads, settings, ANYTHING), apparently gets erased, or is not saved.
I can boot into recovery (which is TWRP 2.7.1.1, and again - any changes I make are not actually written. I can attempt to flash roms (cm, htc1guru stock images, etc.), and they will generally go through the motions of running - and even say 'successful' at the end, but if you reboot after that, everything is still as it was before. No changes at all (think of it like Groundhog Day... every day I can kill myself, eat whatever I want, kill other people(delete stuff, change things, add things) - but after the phone sleeps (aka restarts), the day (aka the phone) is reset as if I did absolutely nothing.)
I have tried wiping cache, data, system, literally EVERYTHING and it does absolutely nothing.
Also, if I try the main Factory Reset from inside the ROM itself, it says it is doing something, but then reboots and everything is back as it was also.
I've tried fastboot boot <insert multiple recovery images multiple times.img>, and it just locks up the phone and I have to hard restart it.
I've tried fastboot flash <new recovery.img> - it actually says successful, but again - does nothing after rebooting.
I am literally going crazy here... I can push files temporarily to the device, and try to do stuff with them, but in the end nothing can seem to make any difference.
I have tried going through htcdev unlock with Unlock_code.bin, and it doesn't do anything.
fastboot oem lock does nothing
Everything I've found says maybe S-OFF would help, but I can't seem to find any way to get that done.
Please, can ANYONE help me figure out how to get this stupid thing to be at all useful again? All help is appreciated. Below is my
e:\Downloads>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.57.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 4M.27.3218.14
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main:
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-ON
(bootloader) serialno: CENSOREDFORMYPARANOIA
(bootloader) imei: CENSOREDFORMYPARANOIA
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product: m7_ul
(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8064
(bootloader) modelid: PN0712000
(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 4272mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: on
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: dirty-1f512bb6
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.068s
