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Root [International] HTC One ClockworkMod problem!

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ElectronGuyz

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Hello!

Well i've rooted the phone etc. then i was getting ClockworkMod and now my HTC One is broken, if i reboot or boot this phone it stucks on HTC logo and then it takes me to ClockworkMod automatically! This is really expensive phone i won't to lose that now, can anyone help me please? :( I want to do something with that ClockworkMod....... But how do I fix it?

Thanks!
 
Also can you explain everything you've done and how you did it? There's more than one way of making modifications, so it would help to know what you did.

Don't panic, this is fixable. The trick here is identifying the best fix and trying to avoid data loss.
 
Can you provide a brief summary of what you actually did? Partly because I haven't really got 24 minutes now to watch some video (and find headphones so I don't disturb my family), and partly because what matters is what you did: if you made an error, watching a video won't tell us what that error was (unless the person who made the video did something obviously wrong themselves).

If it's going straight to recovery that suggests the ROM has been corrupted or erased. The simplest way that could happen would be if you wiped the system when doing a factory reset before flashing the ROM (you don't need to do that when flashing a ROM, but it is one of the options, so if you chose the wrong one this could happen), and then the ROM flash didn't work for whatever reason. Or just that the ROM file was corrupt in some way and so didn't flash correctly (so the flashing process erased the system but wasn't able to install a working replacement).

If that is what happened, the simplest way of getting it working would be to restore the backup you made from recovery before flashing the ROM (assuming you didn't wipe the "sdcard" partition as well). I'm assuming that the video told you to make a backup using recovery (aka a "nandroid" backup) before changing ROMs or even rooting the current ROM - any tutorial that doesn't tell you to do that should not be trusted for anything.

If you don't have a backup, then the simplest would be to copy a new ROM onto the phone and install that from recovery. You can do that using "adb", or a USB OTG cable if you have one. But for this it would be useful to know what app/data backups you made, if any, and whether you did do a factory reset (i.e. whether we need to try to preserve the data on your phone or not). There are options either way, but it's easiest if we know where we are starting from.

(Confession: I am not a fan of video tutorials. Much clumsier to use than simple written instructions, and because they are so much more work to update they usually are not updated. Guess I'm the wrong generation for them ;)).
 
Hmmmm... Can you teach me the way how I just do that, it's pretty hard topic for me... Can you step by step this how to I do that? Because i already tried to restore and nothing.... all is the same......
 
It would be easier if you gave me some information. You say that you tried to restore, which suggests that you do have a backup, but at what point in the process was the backup made (what did you do before this, and what after)? And were there any error messages, either when making it or restoring? And I'm still only guessing what happened, and don't know what other backups you have.

Restoring the CWM backup should just be a matter of going into recovery and selecting restore from the menu, selecting which backup you wish to restore and telling it to do its stuff. I've not used ClockworkMod for a couple of years (most of us use TWRP on the One, and I switched to other recoveries on my previous phone) but I think it's just Backup/Restore > Restore > select the backup you want to restore and confirm.

So if you do that and it isn't working that suggests that there is something wrong with the backup as well. Do you get any messages when you try to restore? Does any part of the restore seem very quick (it will restore system, data, boot separately - boot is quick, data may be if you haven't installed much, but system should take a little time)?

In case that really won't work, do you have adb installed on a computer (maybe used when rooting)? Or a USB OTG cable or a microUSB microSD card reader? If you have any of those we can get a different ROM onto the phone.

In the final resort we can try reflashing back to stock, but for that will need to know whether your phone was SIM-free or sold through a network (with network-specific software). Hopefully we won't need to go that way.

One important thing: people often misunderstand the term "factory reset". All that does is wipe data (remove the user's apps and settings), but this is different from a restore: it cannot restore any software that has been changed or removed. I wish they'd call it "factory data reset", to make it clearer what it means.

I appreciate this can seem complex if you are new to it. It's not too bad once you've done it a couple of times ;)
 
Well if you have a backup then restoring it would be the simplest solution. You can actually see the backup from CWM recovery? You don't say why it fails.

But OK, in that case let's try flashing the ROM again. Firstly, what version of ClockworkMod recovery do you have? It will say at the top of the CWM screen. Just need to know that it's sufficiently up to date.

Secondly, assuming you wish to use the CM ROM (because you've already downloaded that), check the file is intact. You do this by checking the md5 checksum of the file matches the one given by the site you downloaded it from. On Windows you'll need to download some utility to check the code (I don't use Windows, so can't recommend). With Mac you just open a terminal and type "md5 filename", and on Linux it's "md5sum filename". If you have doubts, or don't have the md5 value (e.g. because you used something like ROM Manager to download the ROM) you can download the current stable CyanogenMod for the International HTC One (m7ul) from here: CyanogenMod Downloads - just pick one labelled "stable" to be ultra-safe.

Once you have a ROM on your computer, connect the phone to the computer via USB and check that ADB can talk to it by using the command "adb devices". That should return the serial number of the phone. ADB should be able to talk to the phone while it's running a custom recovery.

If that works, you can then copy the ROM to the phone using "adb push":

adb push yourROM.zip /sdcard/.

Once it's copied over, you can then do a factory reset (just /data and /cache, not /sdcard or /system) then "install zip from sdcard", select the zip you just copied over, and install.

With CM you'll also need a second flash to get the google apps, but let's get this bit done first. I assume you also downloaded a google apps package, but it needs to be the correct one for the android version, and as I don't know which CM version you tried to flash I don't know which that should be. So getting the ROM going is the first priority.

If the above fails we can try "adb sideload", but I've never done that myself so am suggesting this way first.
 
Hey, my computer can't find any devices, I connected the phone with a PC, it makes this nouse its connected but I can't see it anywhere, like in HTC Sync or in "Computer" this HTC disk.....
And no, none of the adb file won't work, it says: The program can't start because AdbWinApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problm. - And thats it
 
Are you sure that the problem with ADB isn't that you just haven't changed to the correct directory before using it? You did say that it was installed, and (if you'll forgive me for pointing this out) you don't actually say what the error is, so I can't work out what's wrong. I don't use Windows (I'm a unix/linux/Mac guy - Mac is just unix underneath the shell) so am not the person to talk you through Windows stuff. But if you need to reinstall it, the simplest way is probably in the second post of this thread: http://androidforums.com/faqs/443072-adb-guide-updated-2013-05-21-a.html

ClockworkMod is a custom recovery, it's just not the only one. Android devices always come with a recovery program, but it doesn't do much: it lets you do a factory reset, or install official (signed) updates. A custom recovery allows you to install unofficial updates, such as custom ROMs, as well as make backups and perform other operations the stock recovery won't let you. So anywhere I say use "recovery" I mean CWM, and where I've described the menu structure that's from what I remember of CWM 2.5.0.7 on the HTC Desire in 2011 (so is probably right in outline, may not be exact in detail).
 
Heh yeah, i find this file what i just need and I saw that phone is connected with my computer in Bootloader.... What i do noW? When i turn my phone to clockworkmod the connection with a computer will be over!
And adb can't find my devices... It just says: List of the devices
and there will be nothing...
 
You put the phone into recovery (CWM).

If you already have the ROM zip on the phone, wipe the phone (factory reset, just cache and data, not system and definitely not sdcard) and try to install it.

Otherwise follow the instructions in post #9
 
And you are in CWM?

What ADB version do you have? Just type "adb" with no parameters and it will give you a list of options, with the version number at the top.
 
Ok, that's newer than the version I'm using, so should work (assuming CWM is ok - most use TWRP on the One, and I've never tried CWM with this phone and won't be able to test for 12 hours or more).

USB port? Try different ones, never use a hub.

Gotta sign off now. We'll get it going - as long as the bootloader works anything else is fixable.
 
No USB port's aren't working........ It makes a two noises and nothing..... No it's not installing a drivers.
USB connecting just fails when trying to do it in clockworkmod...
 
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