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Root HTC One M7 No OS

McTwist

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Jul 7, 2015
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So i have rooted my phone a couple of months back due to the problem of no audio during calls, I flashed Liquid Smooth and kept it up until a week ago when i decided to upgrade as the ROM made my battery to drain quickly and the phone would lock with no reason. When i first started the root i created several backups of my stock ROM and after i flashed the new ROM. When i decided to flash Revolution HD, it didn't work as the phone rebooted and got stuck in a boot loop. I flashed back my previous ROM and tried again with the same result. I would always get the AROMA Installer going, the install would finish but when the phone rebooted it stated "No OS installed" and would reboot into the white HTC logo screen and the into TWRP. I tries using TWRP 2.10 and still nothing. ADB works and fastboot works. Somehow all my backups are gone and the phone only boots into the bootloader, recovery and the white HTC logo screen. I tried using sideload to flash a new rom and still nothing. Currently I can't find a RUU for my phone.

The only thing that changed is that when i finish with the AROMA Installer on Revolution HD, there is no message saying "No OS Installed" but just boots into the white logo screen.

I was considering using the OTG cable but I dont see how that would be different from sideload.

Please help as I need my phone for my upcoming vacation in a week.
 
Some questions.

Was your phone at Lollipop before rooting and updating roms?

If not and you can't find your RUU have you considered doing a reset back to stock, trying for a normal update, and then re-installing TWRP and the updated rooted rom of your choice?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2428276

Have you tried the latest TWRP -

https://dl.twrp.me/m7/twrp-2.8.7.0-m7.img.html

If it's s-on, have you extracted the boot.img from the rom zip on your pc, moving it to your fastboot folder, and while in FASTBOOT USB mode tried -

fastboot flash boot boot.img

And always try -

fastboot erase cache
 
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My phone was on KitKat before all of this. I'm downloading the latest reset zip now. Currently I do have the latest TWRP and followed what you said. Currently I'm still trying to flash the Revolution HD ROM hoping it will work but it's stuck on 10% saying "System in unmounted already" Usually it would stay like this for couple of seconds and then mount and continue with the installation.
 
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I think that if you go for the latest reset, then you're not going get it to force the update - you really want the latest radio firmware for Lollipop. So that's got to be either an update or RUU.

Then again - I have the M8 so I'm doing my best to sort of point in the direction without knowing the right version numbers for the M7.

Anyway, if the update won't work, I expect you can always fall back to an earlier reset point.

PS - not sure about that ARHD install... :(
 
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I think that if you go for the latest reset, then you're not going get it to force the update - you really want the latest radio firmware for Lollipop. So that's got to be either an update or RUU.

Then again - I have the M8 so I'm doing my best to sort of point in the direction without knowing the right version numbers for the M7.

Anyway, if the update won't work, I expect you can always fall back to an earlier reset point.

PS - not sure about that ARHD install... :(

Well i have suceeded in installing the stock rest rom and now its just to make a backup and hope that i can update it.

Thanks a lot for your help! :D
 
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