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[HTC One S] ryanshew:
The camera is really cheap. I've seen them for under $20.

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[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Yes, I saw one for 20€ with shipping included.
[HTC One S] McGiver93:
Can you post me please the link? Or via pm. Thanks
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
wait I think I have a bricked device. Is this a way to get it unbricked?
[HTC One S] McGiver93:
If your device doesn't turn on, led light doesn't turn on when charging and if you connect the device to the PC and it say for "QHUSB_DLOAD" so you got an hard brick :D congrats you're in the right section.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Can you explain what you did?
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
This thread can explain everything.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2270304&page=4

I don't think my phone can be recovered anymore. It seems your project is more for hard bricks than what I'm facing. I think my phone has a partition issue since everything works fine except when it gets to actually booting the rom. Do you think this can be fixed?

This posts sums everything up.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41266973&postcount=40

We think it has to do with our partition. Is that possible to restore somehow? I would donate if you could get this to work.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I could think of fixing it with the help of reformating partition sdcard and system

But with jtag
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
That sounds great!! Do you think I could send the phone to you to check it out?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Were do you live?
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Los Angeles, CA. Are you in the US? Also my phone was S-Off, super CID, if that makes a difference.
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Ditto for me (I'm the other one in the forum post joemanbui mentioned... I'm in Maryland... :crying:
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
will jtag allow you to recover the partitions?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I live in Germany.

So I ask a guy from USA, if he can look at it.
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
That would be very convenient! Thank you! Can you refer us to him?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I wait if he can do it and has time.
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Ok sounds fair enough. Thank you!
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
Yeah shipping US/DE is a pig when it comes to prices. You're better off buying a used one s in the states then if that dude Tec's gonna ask can't help you.

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[HTC One S] Tecardo:
30€
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
What would I do with my bricked one s? Are there people willing to buy it?

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Is that how much to get it fixed in the US? If so I'm willing to do it.
[HTC One S] nashwing:
I'd be willing to pay as well. It's definitely a brick!
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I'm contact with him. Explaining it to him
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Okay thank you! Please keep us updated!
[HTC One S] McGiver93:
Just to let you know guys, got my SD card finally fixed but Rear Camera and Accelerometer are definitely broken after the unbrick process. I've tested again after I fixed my SD with a factory reset in bootloader, then I flashed HBOOT 2.15 (thanks [MENTION=1102297]Sneakyghost[/MENTION] for the help) and run the 3.16 JB RUU succesfully.

Feedback: Rear camera, accelerometer and compass aren't working.
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
nice did you get it fixed by Tecardo?
[HTC One S] McGiver93:
Half Tecardo and Half his friend because my battery runned out while unbrick and he had to give to a friend that has power supplies to charge batteries.

But Tecardo can do it without any help :)

I hope the things happened to my phone never happen to anybody.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Sadly I can't guarantee it to 100% but it's not often.
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Sorry for pestering you but will your friend be able to fix my phone?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
We look into it. (Sdcard could mean replacing nand.) And he lives in ud, I in Germany. So we also have some time problems :) I will definitely can say something on 2 days.
[HTC One S] McGiver93:
Well only my device had this problems, all the others got unbricked very well. Also I'm pretty sure Tecardo can unbrick without his friend help now :)
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
okay thank you! I would appreciate it if you guys could figure it out.
[HTC One S] donverse:
Just to give a positive feedback:

Tecardo restored my bricked device and it's 100% working! Awesome work!

Although the battery life seems to be very bad, but that's not necessarily Tecardo's fault, but one thing I noticed.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I will send you guys the adress tomorrow :)
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Thank you so much!!! You are the best. I appreciate it so much. :victory::victory:
[HTC One S] nashwing:
I'm in the same boat as joemanbui - so I'd appreciate the assistance as well!
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Is it actually okay if I ship two phones? My friend's phone has the exact same issues.
[HTC One S] nashwing:
I think we may be able to unbrick if we can get a dd image of the mmcblk0p4 partition from a working TMOB JB ROM phone...

I think doing the RUU back to ICS may have caused the brick.

Edit: we may need a good p23 as well...
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
yeah it wasdefinintely the RUU. specifically RUU_Ville_U_ICS_40_S_TMOUS_2.35.531.7_Radio_1.08ts .50.02.16_10.08e.50.04L_release_279577_signed
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
hey i found something new. if you flash the ruu here http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=2279588

then use clear storage, factory reset in bootloader

flash cwm recovery

and flash any non sense rom afterwards, it will boot up into the phone for a good 2-3 minutes, then restarts on its own. sense roms still get stuck on the preparing phone storage message though

could you help us solve this? everything works perfectly for those 2-3 minutes. i dont know why it just shuts off though..
[HTC One S] random_factor:
Nice! A valuable service to the community here. No more must devs fear the occasional accidental brickage.
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Nice find, you're correct, same on my phone.

I've got a backup of my mmcblk0p4 - I'm going to try and dd this over and see what prevails. Still need a mmcblk0p23 though, as I think that may be a culprit as well.

EDIT: NO GO on the good mmcblk0p4 and mmcblk0p23 - still a brick

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Have you tried grabbing a logcat of that during boot and up until the reboot? Would be worth examining maybe.
[HTC One S] nashwing:
EDIT: did logcat - see: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41487636&postcount=55
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
I'm really not sure what any of that means, but I tried the same process with twrp and it doesn't work. Only works with cwm. isnt that a little strange?
[HTC One S] nashwing:
I think that twrp and cwmr handle the sdcard mounts a bit differently. However, if you're using a newer twrp, there are issues with that flashing for many, including myself

Oh, and the logcat doesn't mean anything to me either... just a bunch of errors as far as I could tell, nothing more.
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
Didn't your battery go flat out in the process? Li-ion break when going totally flat. It's nearly impossible to revive them. Could be, the total drain killed your battery. When the phone is in that qdl loop, the protection circuit most likely doesn't work anymore so it's probably because of that, that your battery is now bad.

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[HTC One S] joemanbui:
I talked to the guy at mobiletechvideos.com and he said that my device had an emmc chip failure? I don't think it is physically damaged. But possible repartitioning the phone through jtag would do the trick?
[HTC One S] donverse:
So what am I gonna do about that? I am a little afraid to change battery myself, is there a tutorial for it or sth? I am also afraid to grab a fake battery so where should I start there? A pm with the answers would be nice, as I don't want to spam tecardo 's thread!
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Adress going out today. Little delay, cause he gave me wrong adress.

Regarding Battery, will say it to you, when I'm at home. It's not that hard
[HTC One S] nashwing:
There is a pretty good youtube video on dis-assembly of the One S - for just the battery it really is pretty simple. As for locating a battery? I'm not sure... (But, IIRC, the video was done by a 'parts' store. Just search youtube for "htc one s disassembly" I think it's the one by etradesupply.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks tecardo! I'm hopeful to get mine fixed! (I'm using a Galaxy S2 right now, and I despise it compared to my HOS)
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
So who wants the adress?
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
You get original HTC batteries for sure at etradesupply.com which is some Asian shop that has every part of every HTC phone except the mainboard. They are selling it right from HTC's factories. The pricing is ok, the shipping expensive.

They even have the housing of new phones before you even see the new phone anywhere. Good place to check out the looks of the new phones shortly before release ;)

Hint: the battery of the HTC One X+ apparently fits into the one s too! It's got a much better capacity! I'd buy that one instead!

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[HTC One S] nashwing:
Me for sure! Thanks :good:
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Please I would like the address! How much is he charging for his services?
[HTC One S] nashwing:
And paypal available to pay with?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Emails sent out.
[HTC One S] Mohhamad Rehan:
Can any one help me out for my Samsung galaxy advance phone I says It need a jtag box riff well I wrapped the phone
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
What is the problem. Explain please, im ill so I won't respond fast.
[HTC One S] Mohhamad Rehan:
My Samsung galaxy s advance is not booting up at all no download mode no recovery nothing only one thin happens is whenever I connect my phone to pc it displays a unknown device in device manager u8500 Rom now the main issue is I searched the internet for the issue I came across some video using jtag box riff method and it is the most easiest method but I don't have any money to buy the box whereas I know how to use it but I want any other method whatsoever to unbrick it and I have commited a big mistake it's my dad's phone
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Thank you! And sorry for the hassle. Please get well!
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Phone Mechanics

hey tecardo if your not cool with me posting my business card up here let me know. this is for xda members who need help or dont want to do stuff themselves. if its a slow day i wont charge if you have thanked this post other than that i keep my fees low for xda members. i saw joe today. he brought his 2 one s's im working on them now. happy to help you guys. thanks for keeping me in mind tecardo :good:
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
If you had an emmc failure your phone woulddnt boot up and would be stuck in Qualcomm DLOAD mode. you can force this mode when you short out the emmc during boot up. thats how the riff box Resurrection from usb only works so forcing this mode is necessary sometimes to make things easier generally. just thought id throw that in there
[HTC One S] nashwing:
[MENTION=1389681]tonsdog[/MENTION], I'm the other one with the same brick as joe. Unfortunately, I'll be in San Diego all next week, and Orlando the week after. I want to send my phone off to you as well to see if you can revive it, but it won't be until then. Please, please let me know how joe's go, as I'm pretty sure we have the same issue. I'll be in touch with you once I return from business. And thanks so much to you and Tecardo!
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Thanks man. Really appreciate it. I don't really understand this stuff. That's just what people have been telling me but you seem pretty professional about all this. I'll definitely recommend you to other people.

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He's pretty legit. Has the riffbox and everything. There was a problem with the jtag board thing not matching our model but he said he would work on making it. Hoping he can fix it by tomorrow. If everything goes well, I'll post back here with updates.
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Update for you joe i got the jigg made up already just got to put it to action tomorr morning when i get there ill call you if anything

Also for nashwing yea go ahead and give me a call or stop by the shop il hpok you up
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
sounds good. just give me a call when its ready
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I don't have a problem posting your business card. For me this here isn't about money, it's about help. So I need Friends from other countries to assist me, keeping repair time and costs low.
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Jtag for Joe

Cool thanks tecardo. You still need that evo dump? I got almost all those evo s I was going to send you working so if you need it let me know.

Also update for Joe, I got your black screen board working to normal conditions(I assume since I haven't checked everything just saw it boot normally) I'll verify this tomorrow. Then time to throw your other down and solder it

here's the one that works now.:good:

View attachment 1977315

heres the successful ressurection:good:

View attachment 1977317

Here is your phone the wouldnt get past the preparing phone storage. :laugh:

View attachment 1977316

So we will see if it works for the second one. The reboot problem right.:confused:

update for Nashwing if your in the same boat as Joe then your in luck. Since it seems to have fixed the problem with his:good:
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
sounds good. could you post the attachment again? it says invalid. and also could you make sure the phone boots all the way. past the lockscreen. because before i was able to get to the lockscreen then it got stuck at "preparing phone storage". But thanks for the hard work.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Evo dump yes :D
[HTC One S] nashwing:
That's awesome! I'll be up near Camp Pendelton (Oceanside) on Wed and Thurs, how far are you from there? (And how long would it take to fix? I'm just on travel until Thurs)
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Its taking about 2 or 3 hours per phone. Thats because I also have a business to run so I have to take other work in between everything I do. Otherwise if its slow and i have no work then i would say about an hour

also i'm soldering to the evo right now for you tecardo. ill upload it to the riff server so you can download it from the Gloabal RIFF Link & Data Exchange Manager Plugin

Actually checking it right now there are some evo dumps on there already. did you want a full dump or a certain partition?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Full. I tried the other ones, don't work
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
ok working on that now. give me about 30 hours to complete it
[HTC One S] nashwing:
How far are you from Oceanside?
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Im in la puente so about 1 hour
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Awesome, I hope to be able to stop by on Wednesday or Thursday to see your magic.
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Just dropped you an e-mail at your gmail addy... Would like to come up and have you take a look at my phone :)
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
come down. i emailed you back
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
I see some real stuff going on here. Nice. Haven't had time to check by in a while. Happy that this little tree begins to grow now after we planted it.

Welcome Tonsdog. Great you are offering help for the unlucky US guys.

We were checking options back and forth in the beginning but no matter how we looked at it, repairing a US phone in Europe is just ridiculous. Haha.

I felt a little committed to stick around here and answer questions for people in the beginning, hoping to assist Tec but i feel safe now to leave that all up to you guys. I am not an electronics expert anyway so i was happy to help out getting the Box together (initially motivated by my own phone turning into a brick).

Think this post is a bit of a loose goodbye to this thread from me then. Don't think my presence is really needed here. Will still keep reading and if any questions turn up i could possibly answer, i will, but i'll be focusing on my other playgrounds.

Really great job Tec and now Tonsdog are doing here. Really great. Thanks a million times.

Remember: the initial thought was to assist developing people so they could feel safer experimenting with their expensive gadgets and by this maybe accelerate development a little, but also provide some help for those who can't afford expensive OEM repairs. Keep that spirit up!

See yas,

Sneakz
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Got Nashwing back up and running today. Didn't have time to do the evo for you today I'll setup that tomorrow and finish it up tecardo
[HTC One S] nashwing:
I'm back in business. Great job tonsdog! Much, much appreciated. If anyone needs a reference for tonsdog, let me know. He hooked me up!

(If you stop by his place, tips: wear shorts and a tshirt, be skinny, and have a burger at Chriss's around the corner. ;) )
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Ha ha. That entry way is motivational for myself to lose some weight also the broken a/c helps a tad. Yea chrises never goes out of style
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Well, interestingly enough, I decided to S-OFF again, and low and behold, it's a brick again. :( It S-Off'd fine, booted fine, looked fine, went and did a nandroid, rebooted, and poof, brick.

Must be something with the S-OFF bricking it somehow after two or so reboots. I'm not sure.
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Interesting. See you tomorrow I guess lol. But seriously the s-off didn't work from the riff itself which is an issue I haven't encountered yet. I will check Joe's phone tomorrow See if that one took the s off. What do you think of that tecardo. The riff box Actually LOCKED it back up
[HTC One S] nashwing:
We'll shall see. I may call it quits on this damn phone...

I'm doing the following now to test:

wrote CID back to T-MOB010 fastboot oem writecid T-MOB010

s-on'd fastboot oem writesecureflag 3

locked bootloader fastboot oem lock

RUU'ing now...

I'll report back. This phone must not like s-off, strange as to why.

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Interesting... s-on'ing seems to have worked... it won't take an RUU for some reason (error 158 and 159) but boots and operates fine now.

:confused:

Very strange the s-on'ing would fix it... it was one thing I didn't try prior to the first brick... I don't understand.
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
hey glad to see you got your phone fixed. did the s'on fix the phone completely? you can make calls and everything?
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Well, yes, s-on'ing seemed to fix everything.

Now though, after the first update OTA, all was good.

Second OTA update came (the 2.35 one) and now it boots to HTC splash, and I hear the little android splash sound, but the screen stays black.

SO, I tried RUU'ing and getting 155 error unknown...

Hboot updated to 2.15 but radio on 0.16

I tried all the t-mob RUU's to no avail.

I give up, I think the phone is fubar'd even though the RIFF fixed it, I think something is physically wrong causing the problem.

I don't want to waste tonsdog time re-riff'ing it, as it seems any updates re-brick it. Can't S-off, can't SCID, can't RUU, can't OTA without bricking.

I hope you have better luck than I did.
[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
MID mismatch? Tried WWE RUU? Tried flashing hboot, radio, boot, recovery manually (from the RUU you intend to run) before running the respective ruu? Had similar prob with WWE RUU on my s-off phone for a while. Error 155 indicates some key or id mismatch... Try stuffing in as many partitions manually before running the RUU.

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[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
If you were on stock before and did a system security update you can no longer s off as it makes one of the files required a read only, HTCs attempt to stop the s off process could be the reason just a guess though

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Nashwing and tony, can you two dump partition 1-17 for me, please don't upload on riff manager, can't access, don't know why...

The evo dump has time.

I think I have an idea what the problem is. Please also do dumb after riffing it :)

Thanks.

Kill, thats not true for riffbox ;)
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
Ah worth the shot =)
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Well, got it back up and running again via flashing the firmware.zip for the TMO JB update, then doing the RUU for the TMO JB update. Phone is booting fine with no issues noted.

EXCEPT, Tony, I'm back to the no signal/no network issue again. :(

Do you recall what you did to correct that? (You can PM or email me)
[HTC One S] nashwing:
T-Mobile sending me a new phone... :) I may have to suck up a $92 'out of warranty fee' if they happen to check the 'void' sticker missing, and the 'unlocked' bootloader, but we shall see.

I really think the phone is physically defective, and even though we got it 'back' - today, after the JB update, it's back to no signal and when trying to register on the t-mob network, it says "This SIM is not authorized on this network" which I know the SIM is good, as it works in three other phones with no prob, and T-Mob says it's a good SIM as well.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
I have a question, is this service avalible for htc one s (villec2) or only for ville?
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
nashwing all i did was update the radio and then wait 10 minutes and the signal kicked on. I dont think i actually did anything special

whats the model number of that one
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
PJ4020000

The difference b/w ville and villec2 is that they have different processors
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Is there a way you can fix this Tecardo?
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
I asked so that I can look for a reason ;)
[HTC One S] nashwing:
Can I just dd the partitions out and post for you?
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
yea if thats the case ill have them right now. i havent been able to start yet. been swampped with work
[HTC One S] nashwing:
I can also send mine if needed. Just say the word.

Also, UPDATE: after letting phone sit for about an hour, the signal came back. So, since late last night, I've had a fully functional phone...

To fix the brick,

I basically S-ON'd and all was fine.

What I've done:

1) I S-ON'd

2) Locked bootloader

3) Flashed firmware for Tmob JB RUU, (twice)

4) RUU'd the Tmob JB RUU

5) Rebooted and waited about an hour for signal - finally arrived

To test further:

1) Unlocked bootloader

2) Flashed TWRP recovery

3) Installed Unknown 1.7.1 Rom (Stock Tmob JB with tweaks)

4) Rebooted, waited about an hour, signal good

5) Rebooted several times, signal came right back...

I am not S-OFF'd - this seems to be the culprit to the bricks and such...
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
So please make dump of these. With dd if possible, 6-17. Should be Ok. And right now I can't do ville c2.
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Cool I'll give you the info to my server so you can access it and download the dumps.
[HTC One S] Tecardo:
Ok, thanks :)
[HTC One S] ...Awesome...:
Hey Tony been two months my phone just sitting there in a drawer and would really like to fix it where can I send it to you? I flashed a wrong kernel and its stuck on that download mode thanks.
[HTC One S] tonsdog:
Sorry for the delay, I have some time tonight and i am dd'ing the partitions now as i type. So you should have them soon. I'll dd every partition for you so theres no need to ask for more later, BTW, This One S is unRIFFed only rooted via htc unlock in case you were wondering

Edit: Heres the link for the download of the dumps http://d-h.st/lkJ

Sure. If you want. are you local or where are you sending it from? I'm in California, LA County, 15 minutes from LA in La Puente

I have the JIGG for the PJ402000 so I should be able to take care of that for you.

:highfive:
[HTC One S] joemanbui:
Hey nashwing, so your phone works perfectly now? Including signal and data? It's just the s-off that doesn't work right?