[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Aaron79:
writecid fail

I'm having same kind of issue. tried facepalm method at least 20x with no luck. Everything appears to execute correctly, but always boots s-on.

Writing cid as below failed with this error.

fastboot oem writecid 11111111

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 534642040 (0x1FDDFD78)

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 1.038s

using stock kernal from Vxl 4.2

hboot 1.4

any ideas?

entire process below.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem writecid 11111111

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 534642040 (0x1FDDFD78)

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 1.038s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem writecid 11111111

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 534642040 (0x1FDDFD78)

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 1.038s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem writecid 11111111

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 534642040 (0x1FDDFD78)

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 1.039s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem rebootRUU

...

(bootloader) Start Verify: 3

OKAY [ 0.065s]

finished. total time: 0.066s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot oem boot

...

(bootloader) Boot/Recovery signature checking...

(bootloader) Boot/Recovery signature checking...

(bootloader) setup_tag addr=0x80400100 cmdline add=0xC02F9E3C

(bootloader) TAG:Ramdisk OK

(bootloader) TAG:skuid 0x2FD0C

(bootloader) TAG:hero panel = 0x4940047

(bootloader) TAG:engineerid = 0x5

(bootloader) TAG: PS ID = 0x0

(bootloader) TAG: Gyro ID = 0x2

(bootloader) Device CID is super CID

(bootloader) CID is super CID

(bootloader) Backup CID is empty

(bootloader) setting->cid::11111111

(bootloader) serial number: HT28MW300546

(bootloader) command line length =691

(bootloader) active commandline: poweron_status=32 reset_status=0 board_e

(bootloader) lite.disable_uart3=0 diag.enabled=0 board_elite.debug_uart=0

(bootloader) userdata_sel=0 androidboot.emmc=true androidboot.pagesize=2

(bootloader) 048 skuid=0 ddt=20 ats=0 androidboot.lb=1 td.td=1 td.sf=1 t

(bootloader) d.ofs=328 td.prd=1 td.dly=0 td.tmo=300 imc_online_log=0 and

(bootloader) roidboot.efuse_info=NFSL androidboot.baseband=0.19as.32.09.1

(bootloader) 1_2 androidboot.cid=11111111 androidboot.devicerev=3 android

(bootloader) boot.batt_poweron=good_battery androidboot.carrier=ALL andro

(bootloader) idboot.mid=PJ8310000

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[0].name=misc

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[1].name=recovery

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[2].name=boot

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[3].name=system

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[4].name=local

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[5].name=cache

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[6].name=userdata

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[7].name=devlog

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[8].name=pdata

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[9].name=fat

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[A].name=extra

(bootloader) aARM_Partion.name=radio

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[C].name=adsp

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[D].name=dsps

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[E].name=wcnss

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[F].name=radio_config

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[10].name=modem_st1

(bootloader) aARM_Partion[11].name=modem_st2

(bootloader) partition number=18

(bootloader) Valid partition num=18

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_SET_DDR_MPU ret = 0

(bootloader) smem 90005000 (phy 90005000): TZ_HTC_SVC_UPDATE_SMEM ret = 0

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_LOG_OPERATOR ret = 0

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_ENC ret = 0

(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = 474079232 (0x1C41E000)

(bootloader) jump_to_kernel: machine_id(3766), tags_addr(0x80400100), ker

(bootloader) nel_addr(0x80408000)

(bootloader) -------------------hboot boot time:15535 msec

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 6.231s

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb push soffbin3 /data/local/tm

p/

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

43 KB/s (4751 bytes in 0.106s)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb shell chmod 744 /data/local/

tmp/soffbin3

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb shell su -c "/data/local/tmp

/soffbin3"

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb reboot bootloader

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>