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Root fastboot and adb but no rom and bootlooping

donster22

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Jun 29, 2014
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hi.

i have an HTC One S (S4) from Three in the UK

I started rooting it yesterday and I think I got carried away at one point and now find myself going round in circles with a phone that has no rom and is stuck in a boot loop with the HTC "this is for development purposes screen"

the bootloader is unlocked.
the phone is rooted.
I have SuperCID
i can access fastboot from pc and also use adb no problem.

there is nothing on the phone. it's completely wiped.

i cannot s-off the phone because it fails at the end and tells me no such folder (/data/local/tmp/) for soffbin.

i have tried to use an ruu I thought was correct but it says it's not. i get an error when checking signature.

i have tried to push CM10 to the phone via adb. i can get it onto the phone but when i try to install it via recovery I get back to the same HTC bootloop.

My bootloader screen says the following:

**** TAMPERED ****
**** UNLOCKED ****
VLE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2. 12. 0000
RADIO-1. 11. 50. 05. 28
OpenDSP-v31. 1. 0. 45. 0815
eMMC-boot
Nov 20 2012, 15: 44: 03 -1


Please can someone offer some advice? I have been going round in circles and am now just confusing myself I think.

Hopefully since I can use fastboot and adb there is a solution?

thank you for any help
Don
 
Use TWRP recovery and get yourself a usb on the go cable, plug it in to phone and mount usb OTG = saved me frustration more than once. I will look into your S-off error I have had that error before and forgot what the fix was - are you running ADB in recovery? It seems like it was something like that. They should move this post to the all things root section soon and there will be people there that are more proficient than I.
 
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