Okay, so my brothers phone for whatever reason today decided to just die on him. (Battery still there etc) When attempting to boot the device I get the HTC logo screen and then it just goes black. However, I can access the bootloader. But this in itself for some reason entails another issue. Pressing power to select something causes the bootloader to freeze entirely. As far as I can tell at least. The device is completely stock. Obviously the best case scenario would be to unlock the bootloader flash TWRP and try to see if a ROM could fix the issue. Wondering if anyone has any advice on how I can first of all... Get the device into fastboot USB mode?
HTC One M7 access to bootloader but can't select Fastboot.
- Thread starter Ollie1132
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You could try and reboot it into fastboot using adb?
You'll need the Android SDK tools and HTC USB Driver installed, and then you could just use 'adb reboot fastboot'
You could also use 'adb reboot recovery' and do a factory reset from there
edit: Links
Android SDK http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r24.4.1-windows.exe
HTC Sync will install the USB driver, just uninstall HTC afterwards and the USB driver will remain
You'll need the Android SDK tools and HTC USB Driver installed, and then you could just use 'adb reboot fastboot'
You could also use 'adb reboot recovery' and do a factory reset from there
edit: Links
Android SDK http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r24.4.1-windows.exe
HTC Sync will install the USB driver, just uninstall HTC afterwards and the USB driver will remain
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Try this: http://www.htc1guru.com/dld/ruu_m7_...0-38r-1157-04l_release_353069_signed_2-1-exe/
This helped me unbrick my M7 when I messed up.
This helped me unbrick my M7 when I messed up.
Remind me, RUU's don't require fastboot USB or the device to be actively in a ROM...? It's been a longgggg time since I used an RUU.
It's been a long time for me too
. Think I remember using it being just in the bootloader.It's been a long time for me too
I think the issue is currently then that the Fastboot is not automatically becoming USB mode. :/ Which is odd. The phone IS charging off my USB cable... But theres no way to select fastboot meaning that I can't unfortunately use an RUU or sideload a ROM/recovery. :c I really don't understand why it freezes when I press the power button to select an option.
Hm. I gave adb devices a shot earlier to see what would happen and it lists nothing there. :/
Yeah just tried again. Its really quite odd... It definitely is charging off of the cable... but its just not recognized...
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Yeah I tested to make sure I had the USB drivers installed. My M8 shows up on ADB and fastboot devices perfectly fine. :/ I'll try an ADB command whilst in fastboot on my M8 I think.
Seems that being in hboot doesn't allow ADB commands unfortunately. I guess the phone is brown bread.