Accidentley wiped phone of OS.

[Karl75]

Hi.
Can anyone help me put a rom onto my sd card in TWRP.
I have no rom on phone to install.
Have I bricked it?
Is there a way to fix this.
Please help.

 

[Brian706]

You should be able to transfer files to your phone via TWRP. Somewhere in the options. Unfortunately I don't have twrp installed at the moment so I can't look at the exact location.

But if you download a compatible rom to your PC And connect the device while in TWRP, if you look around in the TWRP options you should find a way to transfer files.

Then just install as you normally would. Alternatively you can restore a backup if you made a backup at any point via TWRP.

 

[Karl75]

Thank you.
But for some reason partition sd card is not shown in my twrp. Please help.

 

[Karl75]

its unable to mount e: ` usb-otg

 

[Karl75]

Pease help. Its not seeing my internal sd card.
Only options I have is bootloader and twrp 2.8.0.0
zero os
but I have one waiting to go on.

 

[lunatic59]

its unable to mount e: ` usb-otg

Ah, okay. The One X has no card slot so you want to copy your rom to an SD card partition from an OTG card reader?

See if this article helps you out.

Keep in mind that you will probably have to flash the rom right from OTG rather than from an internal SD card partition (which you wipe out with the previous rom)

 

[dontpanicbobby]

You /root guys kill me sometimes.
Once you're rooted thing's change No Operating System shouldn't be an option.
i think you're bricked, but I've never /rooted.

 

[Hadron]

"No OS" usually means that someone has pressed the wrong button in a custom recovery and erased their /system partition rather than just wiping /data or /cache.

As long as there's still a custom recovery it's just a matter of putting a new ROM on and flashing it (via ADB sideload, or using a OTG adapter and putting the ROM on a flash drive).

Worst comes to the worst, since this is an HTC you find the appropriate RUU and reflash the device. But that shouldn't be necessary.

You are only truly bricked if you manage to corrupt the bootloader, which is very hard to do accidentally.

 

[Karl75]

Thanks for your replys.
Am having problems with the ADB sideload, as in finding google usb driver. Also can someone link me to a SDK tools download if I need it that is.

 

[Brian706]

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html


https://developer.android.com/studio/run/win-usb.html

 

[Karl75]

Thanks for the help I really appreciate it.
I've also been trying to google for a guide on how to do it all, but its making my head spin.
Please can someone walk me through it, I really want to get the phone up and running for my Dad.
You guys are great, please help a thicko.

 

[Karl75]

OK.
I've managed to get a ROM onto my HTC one X. But fot some reason it comes up with E: unable to mount when I try to install the ROM.

Also when I look in the advanced tab in twrp there isn't an option to partition.

 

[Hadron]

Why would you want to partition the storage? The One X doesn't have a removable SD card, which is what that option is for, so that's probably why the option isn't there.

Can you talk us through exactly what commands you issue, whether via ADB or TWRP, and what the responses are?

 

[Karl75]

Sorry about my confusion.
I,ve managed to (I think install a rom on it) but all it does now is keep booting into twrp, and not the os. I think ive tried everything.

 

[El Presidente]

From my memory of the one X, because the HTCdev bootloader unlock doesn't allow a custom recovery to flash the boot partition, you have to manually fasboot flash a boot.img for the ROM to boot properly.

Have you done that?

 

[Hadron]

Good call! Yes, it was that generation of HTC devices that had that oddity (the subsequent One M7 didn't suffer this). I'd completely forgotten that.

 

[Karl75]

Thanks.
So I just put the boot.img into the phone folder?
If not how do I go about it?

 

[Brian706]

Thanks.
So I just put the boot.img into the phone folder?
If not how do I go about it?

Extract the boot.img from the rom.zip on your PC. Place it in your platform tools folder.

Boot the phone into the bootloader/fastboot and connect to PC.

Issue the command: fastboot flash boot boot.img

Restart the phone then hopefully the rom will boot up.

 

[Karl75]

Thank you very much guys. I got it working.
Stupid me was putting the boot.img file into the wrong folder.
Also needed to input ./fastboot flash boot boot.img to get it working.
Cheers.

 

[Brian706]

Glad you got it.