[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neetekweet:
Good day everyone.

After two weeks of trying and searching the web for an answer I have finally given up and decided to post my question here, perhaps someone has an idea that can help.

I have an HTC One M9 that was stashed away in a cupboard, I decided that I am going back to it as my current phone is just not working for me, however, I LOVE the hardware on the One M9 but I do not like the HTC Sence UI and decided that I will flash it with a custom ROM. Needless to say I completely stuffed it up. (I probably should have S-OFF and unlocked before I tried flashing. (Also didn't enable developer options or USB debugging - stupid stupid me)

Herewith the symptom. I can boot into download mode but not recovery, when i boot into recovery the black HTC logo appears and then disappears, appears, disappears etc etc so ABD does not work.

I have tried the RUU route but as soon as the installer reboots the phone it does the whole black logo loop thing. the get_identifier_token command also returns bank (see output below) so can't even use the htcdev procedure.

I have tried manually flashing zip and img files and get a 9 RU_SECURITY_FAIL boot and bootloader isn't BL_UNLOCK also tried flashing stock recovery.img rom.

Rom:

M9_3.35.401.12_FullStock_wipe.zip

M9_3.35.401.12_NoWipe_TWRP2871b1.zip

0PJAIMG_HIMA_UHL_M60_SENSE70_HTC_Europe_3.35.401.1 2_Radio_01.01_U11440792_97.00.51203G_F_release_sig ned.zip

RUU_HIMA_UHL_L50_SENSE70_HTC_Europe_1.32.401.17_Ra dio_01.01_U11440261_56.02.50306G_2_F_release_42934 0_signed_2_4.exe

Manually flashing with extracted rom in RUU file

hima_uhl_n70_hosd_signed.img

HTC_One_M9_1.32.401.8_recovery_signed.img

twrp-3.2.1-0-hima.img

Used the SDCARD option

I did the fastboot erase cache process

At some point I was able to htc_fastboot flash zip rom.zip and it sent up to 50% but just remained there

Original Software

LOCKED

S-ON

htc_fastboot "works"

D:\Desktop\HTC\HTC One M9 Toolkit 2 1.6.1\adb>htc_fastboot.exe getvar all

(bootloader) kernel: lk

(bootloader) product: htc_himauhl

(bootloader) version: 1.0

(bootloader) imei: XXXXXXXXXXXX

(bootloader) version-main: 3.35.401.12

(bootloader) boot-mode: download

(bootloader) version-baseband: 01.01_U11440792_97.00.51203G_F

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 1.0.0.0000

(bootloader) mid: 0PJA10000

(bootloader) cid: HTC__016

all:

finished. total time: 0.004s

htc_fastboot finished. total time: 1.143s

flash example:

D:\Desktop\HTC\HTC One M9 Toolkit 2 1.6.1\adb>htc_fastboot.exe flash zip d:\roms\M9_3.35.401.12_FullStock_wipe.zip

htc_fastboot.exe v3.0.7 (2015-03-30)

target reported max download size of 800000000 bytes

sending 'zip' (134610 KB)...

OKAY [ 8.962s]

writing 'zip'...

(bootloader) HOSD CL#671758

FAILED (remote: 9 RU_SECURITY_FAIL zip from usb command in download mode)

finished. total time: 10.121s

htc_fastboot finished. total time: 12.576s

D:\Desktop\HTC\HTC One M9 Toolkit 2 1.6.1\adb>htc_fastboot.exe oem get_identifier_token

...

(bootloader) [KillSwitch] : /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/frp

(bootloader) [KillSwitch] Last Byte is 0X00, disable unlock

(bootloader) [KillSwitch] oem unlock Turn Off!

OKAY [ 0.162s]

finished. total time: 0.162s

htc_fastboot finished. total time: 1.335s

Please help or even tell me I am doing something wrong.

Thank you