[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madeofscars117:
Hello, so...where to start. Phone was original stock. It randomly froze and started boot looping. I had installed the Sprint update 6.23.651. 6 about a month prior to this. (the update made it sluggish)

So I did research, I went to Hboot, but recovery and factory reset didnt do anything. After selecting either one, it just started looping immediately. So tried fastboot commands, nothing work really except erase cache. ADB did not show anywhere even though my drivers were up to date. Contaced HTC and dowloaded the update application. Put the phone on fastboot, ran the wizard. when it was all done, it said it was finish updating. But was still looping. HTC told me i had to send it in and pay a fee. BS! i did nothing to my phone, they broke it with the updates.

Long story short, i figure how to unlock it. Great, so i started trying to flash updates that had the same CID and Model. To list last few:

1) Guru_Reset_M7_Sprint_1.31.651.2

2)Guru_Reset_M7_Sprint_3.04.651.2

3)RUU_M7_WLS_JB_50_Sprint_1.29.651.7

But none of them worked. Just gave me some error that i cant recal. tried other comands that further bricked my phone, like (fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img) (fastboot flash recovery recover.img). I have been working on this for 3 days, today is the 4th. After this, it would loop once and turn off. So i tried multiple recovery images out of the zips listed above. Those made it so that it finally say entering recovery, but then it would loop and turn off.

Then i kept reading that people are being told to relock the hboot (fastboot oem relock) and then flash the zip. Tried it with those 3 listed above again. the 12 signature error showed up of course.

Tried running the update 6.23....from spring, the wizard gave me some error, basically, my phone is way off to even set back to where it was at first.

After some research, I tried tried cwm 6.0.4.8-m7 to have a standard known recovery image flashed. I had actually tried it before but it didnt work. and for whatever reason, it lunched clockworkrecovery.

Here i erased data/factory reset. Also wiped the calvik data (something like that) since that what it says everywhere to do for first step. (kept a mental note that wouldn't fix my phone since it was further bricked than before i began). But before exiting the recovery mode, i noticed that adb commands were finally working! so i tried the two methods if found to install a rom. Sideload and push. Through side load, it takes forever to reach 100% but once it gets there it says

* failed to write data 'protocol fault (no status)' * {in cmd}

So i tried to push. after pushing it to the sdcard (internal btw) i got to the sdcard and run it. End result. *(bad) installation aborted * {on the phone}

so then im like whatever, lets reboot and see if anything changes. Bootlooping still. Recovery and factory/reset send me to bootloader now (it used to just loopboot). so i flash recovery again. Doesnt work. fastboot erase cache, then flash image, still not working. So i managed to remember some steps i followed that might of been the reason recovery worked. so I flash boot_signed.img, then flash recovery. doesnt work. so fastboot boot boot.img cmd responds but phone freezes, then manually turn it off. then get back into fastboot, flash recovery, erase cache, flash recovery(x3 times). and recovery works.

This is the 3rd time i got into recovery, but it takes me about 10 mins of doing the different combinations of the what i just mentioned before it goes through.

So im at the point where i could possibly get it fixed. But nothing seems to work

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me. I know that the rom has to match my hboot version? but im at hboot 1.6 and the only thing i found was here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2795856

but that only gives me the firmware and the exe that doesnt work for me. I also tried to run the exe and during it, seach my C-drive for rom.zip. Apparently it creates a temporary rom. I pulled it out, it doesnt contain everything

Last thing i was going to do, was put relock it and run recovery. but because im not sure how to make recovery work every time from the get-go. when relocked, recovery didnt work, so i had to flash, thus i had to unlock, spent 10 minutes making it work and forgot that it was unlocked. I could try and see if i could relock and get recovery to run. But it could take forever to get it to work, thus is why im looking to see if there is anything i can do from recovery. (also, both time i was in recovery, i did erase wipe everything, so maybe thats why it wont work after reboot and have to reflash it)

This is where im on.

clockwork recovery window in phone.

phone stuff:

hboot-1.6 something

s-on

os 6.23.651...etc

cid SPCS_001

modelid: PN0720000

the guru zip mention above have the same cid and modelid as my phone according to

http://www.htc1guru.com/downloads/ruu-file-downloads/

Thank You, I hope i am as close to fixing it as i think i am.