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Recovery boots back to bootloader

dOeVENTS

dOeVENTS

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Hi there

If anyone can help me with this I would appreciate. I'll try to keep it short.

I have a HTC mini 2 and a few months ago installed TWRP and cyanogen.
Basically I followed the instructions from wiki.cyanogenmod.org.

One day the phone started to make reboots by itself until it got stuck in cyanogen boot logo.
I tried to install cyanogen again using TWRP but it kept failing. Wipe gave messages of "unable to mout data \ cache \ internal storage"

I decided to install a new version of TWRP and now every time I go to recovery, it boots back to bootload.
I tried to flash different versions of TWRP with the same result.

The phone is unlocked, S-ON.

Any ideas anyone?
 

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Thanks for replying.

I did:
TWP 2.7.1.0 -> This was the one I tried initially.
TWP 2.8.5.0 -> This one I installed the second time.
TWP 2.6.3.0 -> Tried this one as well and went back to the top of the list. All with the same result.

CWM doesn't have a memul version, but out of despair I tried clockwork-6.0.4.8-m4.
The same result. After reboot, go to recovery and it boots right back to fastboot.
 
Ah, I missed that.

Try to reflash the recovery, 2.8.5 sounds fair enough, 2.7.1 did have some bugs, and immediately clear cache after -

fastboot flash recovery twrp-whatever.img

fastboot erase cache

fastboot reboot

Failing that, try to boot without the sim and if it has one, without an SD card.
 
dOeVENTS said:
Same result. :saddroid:

What are my options? Flash boot?
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If you can't boot into recovery, it's a problem.

Normally I would recommend flashing an HTC RUU in order to ensure that your partition layout is correct - however - I can't find any for the Mini 2.

You can try flashing the boot.img but I'm not optimistic. :(
 
hey,
I also have a big problem with the m4 of my daughter.
I have no idea what happened.
All I have found so far in the net, the m4 was unlocked
Sry but my english is not so good. I do not understand this well
 

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That is the bootloader screen. So can you describe the problem? Are you saying that it only boots to that screen, or something else? What have you tried to fix it so far?

The bootloader is normally locked unless you have tried to root the phone (and this discussion here is about rooting). Has your daughter attempted to modify the software? Did she accept an update which got interrupted during installation?
 
Until now I only read in forums and few left. But so really notion of the whole I unfortunately not. Have also 2 German sites found, but also there always differences to the upper text in the picture.

And the mini booted only the bootloader nothing else
No matter what I click in the menu
My daughter is grad times 10 years. She says it would have fallen on her and since then it is so.
 
There is nothing wrong with the text on that photo. Perfectly normal for that handset.

Can you use the volume keys to select different options in that menu? Are the volume keys working? The way you normally get into this menu is by pressing the "volume down" key while rebooting the phone, so if the volume key is stuck or broken so that the phone thinks you are always pressing it then you will end up on this screen if you reboot the phone. So if the volume key isn't working try to free it.
 
So if you select "bootload" from that menu, then "recovery" from the next menu, what happens?

To be honest though it's sounding like it may require reloading the software. Was this phone bought through a service provider, and if so, which? We'll need to find the right software for it, and will need that information to do so. Alternatively there is a way of finding out by installing a piece of software on a computer and using that to find out what we need (the piece of software is called fastboot, which you can find some information about here, or else get from HTCdev.com, which will require creating an account).

But if the problem is hardware then nothing we do with software will help.
 
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