[Q] Another noob with a bricked HOX

[mathesonewan]

At the moment it's on a bootloop with the HTC screen, although I've managed (just now) to flash CM10 which is now stuck on a loop of the CM10 Android splash screen

I'm feeling confident that this can be sorted as I can access phone through fastboot/adb and can mount the SD so all isn't lost... I'm on UK O2 HOX

Just looking for a little direction, I used to be fairly confident around the inside of my old HTC desire, but lost interest... Things are rather different with the HOX and I suspect I've maybe screwed up with some misguided bravado...

Mr Hofs has provided some excellent learning material on his responses to issues similar to mine but to no avail...

I've tried a lot of things, bootloader is unlocked, flashed boot.img and recovery.img but when I flashed x.xx.206.x - O2 UK (United Kingdom) firmware.zip with hboot 1.36 it said it failed (with no information as to why)

Just looking for pointers on where to go next!

Starting to become concerned I've made a proper mess...

 

[mathesonewan]

I've tried a lot of things, bootloader is unlocked, flashed boot.img and recovery.img but when I flashed x.xx.206.x - O2 UK (United Kingdom) firmware.zip with hboot 1.36 it said it failed (with no information as to why)

Additional to this - I've been through 10-12 pages of various fixes (searched bootloop within HOX forum) that's why the above is a little vague... They've all merged into one...

 

[Mr Hofs]

1: what hboot do you have now ?
2: what recovery are you on ?

and put the phone in the recovery in the mean time. it charges the battery there

 

[TToivanen]

Are you flashing cm10 or cm10.1 'cause cm10 does not support hboot 1.36.

 

[mathesonewan]

Recovery is TWRP v2.4.1
HBoot is 1.36

and I'd read that somewhere about not supporting 1.36 and I've just checked it's 10.1 I was trying to flash

 

[TToivanen]

Everything sounds good to me.
Try again with my instructions:

1. Flash boot
2. Full wipe
3. Flash rom
4. Flash gapps

It should boot.

 

[Mr Hofs]

Yep....and otherwise the way around ! because i helped somebody on team-V ...it didnt work the way TT described. but actually did work the other way around

in recovery a full wipe....

install the rom and gapps

adb reboot bootloader

and flash the boot.img followed by

fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot

 

[mathesonewan]

Everything sounds good to me.
Try again with my instructions:

1. Flash boot
2. Full wipe
3. Flash rom
4. Flash gapps

It should boot.

Yep....and otherwise the way around ! because i helped somebody on team-V ...it didnt work the way TT described. but actually did work the other way around

in recovery a full wipe....

install the rom and gapps

adb reboot bootloader

and flash the boot.img followed by

fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot

Right I'll try these out - If TTs method isn't successful is there anything I would need to be aware of inbetween these two methods? Or are both pretty much starting from scratch? (I hope you understand what I mean..?)

 

[mathesonewan]

Right I'll try these out - If TTs method isn't successful is there anything I would need to be aware of inbetween these two methods? Or are both pretty much starting from scratch? (I hope you understand what I mean..?)

Everything sounds good to me.
Try again with my instructions:

1. Flash boot
2. Full wipe
3. Flash rom
4. Flash gapps

It should boot.

I've expanded on the above steps to ensure I'm completing them correctly

1. Extracted the boot.img from the firmware zip contained within the CM10.1 zip, then ran fastboot flash boot boot.img from cmd line - this completed and reported "OKAY"
2. Full wipe done using TWRP - system wipe - for good measure wiped everything else too (wasn't sure if system was a catch all for the others or not)
3. Rom Flashed using TWRP install cmd (I've assumed this is the correct way to do it...)
4. Flashed Gapps similarly

It's now past the HTC "quietly brilliant" splash (very very quiet just now...) and is stuck on the CyanogenMod splash just circling round and round...

Going to try the other method see if I have anymore luck!

 

[mathesonewan]

OK... So haven't had any luck with either method...

When flashing the boot.img it's behaving differently to how it did before - it now triggers the phone to reboot whereas it never did before... Is that normal?

Is there any more information I can give you guys that might narrow down the issue?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Mr Hofs]

i would try a stanrd sense based rom ..... just to check its all fine, i have seen more people that didnt get it booted, why ? no clue....

did a proper wipe....factory reset,wipe caches, dalvik cache, data, system ?

then it should work !

 

[mathesonewan]

Just downloading the stock rom just now, going to try from there... At this point in time I'll be happy to just have a working phone!

 

[mathesonewan]

Success!

I tried going back to the stock rom but something mad happened with the recovery (i.e. it didn't work anymore) and was replaced with a graphic of a flat HOX with a sync symbol and then the sync symbol was replaced by a red cross...

So had a minor panic, realised that something wasn't right with TWRP, so flashed on CWM, then flashed the boot.img from the stock zip, and flashed the rom perfectly.

I'm tempting fate but I started this process wanting a new rom and I will finish it, but I'm glad my phone isn't bricked!

Thanks to you both for your input, your faith certainly encouraged me to not give in!

Keep up the awesome work!

 

[Mr Hofs]

Well you can always try again to install CM10.1.....again but now with cwm.

 

[mathesonewan]

I went with viper - which has flashed successfully, but everytime I unlock the screen it comes up with a white HTC screen... haha time to start trawling the viper forum... or go for CM again!

 

[Mr Hofs]

Strange.....tho i have the idea you missed something in the wiping process ?

 

[mathesonewan]

Funnily enough for a "low stress" option I wiped everything (CWM > advanced > wipe em all) then reflashed the boot.img from CM10.1, then flashed the rom and it's loading into CM10 but repeatedly flashes "unfortunately the process com.android.phone has stopped"

There is something funny going on if no custom roms are working no?

 

[Mr Hofs]

Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Advanced - wipe dalvik cache
Mounts & storage - format cache,data,system

That should do it.....

 

[mathesonewan]

ohhhhh the mounts and storage one is new to me... I'll try that now with a custom...

 

[mathesonewan]

Meh didn't work... I'm going to reflash the stock and go to bed I think!