So here's the deal. I was messing in the recovery on my One S and I'm not sure what's happened but now I can't boot. I can push files onto the phone with adb, and fastboot is also working but normal USB transfer isn't working at all (comes up as a transparent icon on windows). Additionally, recovery cannot mount the sdcard and hence the attempts I have made to push a ROM to flash haven't worked. Any idea's would be appreciated, thought I get that it's probably a huge deadend. The One S is internal storage I should add. Thanks guys.
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Solved it. For anyone who has a similar issue there's some good instructions on XDA. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Basically, reflash the stock recovery with the all-in-one toolkit or fastboot, clear all data from bootloader and do a factory reset. Then flash Clockworkmod Recovery and use 'adb push <filename> /sdcard/' to put the files onto the sdcard which should now mount. Install zip from SD card and voila. You may need to google around for the stock recovery.
Basically, reflash the stock recovery with the all-in-one toolkit or fastboot, clear all data from bootloader and do a factory reset. Then flash Clockworkmod Recovery and use 'adb push <filename> /sdcard/' to put the files onto the sdcard which should now mount. Install zip from SD card and voila. You may need to google around for the stock recovery.
i also have a quiery... i TRIED to flash the new pacman rom on my htc IM NEW TO THIS and it has rebooted onto a htc screen. at the bottom it says in red "this is a build for htc development purposes only do not distribute outside htc written permission. blah blah" BUT its been on this for half an hour now.... i cant access it from my pc or anything. .... what has happend and what can i do??????
scotty85
Extreme Android User
sounds like you have tried to flash a rom from your permantly installed recovery,wich cannot install the kernel.
the common solution is to pull the "boot.img" from the rom,place it into your adb fastboot folder. hold power intil the phone resets,the hold vol down to get to hboot. select fastboot from the hboot menu. install the boot image with this command in a cmd window:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
alternately,you can launch your recovery into phone memory,where it can install kernels. do this with:
fastboot boot recoveryimagename.img
more info here: http://androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/587430-s-want-flash-roms-read.html
thats the reazound forum,but all info applies- just make sure to use a one s specific recovery
the common solution is to pull the "boot.img" from the rom,place it into your adb fastboot folder. hold power intil the phone resets,the hold vol down to get to hboot. select fastboot from the hboot menu. install the boot image with this command in a cmd window:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
alternately,you can launch your recovery into phone memory,where it can install kernels. do this with:
fastboot boot recoveryimagename.img
more info here: http://androidforums.com/rezound-all-things-root/587430-s-want-flash-roms-read.html
thats the reazound forum,but all info applies- just make sure to use a one s specific recovery