Bricked HTC One S - No Backup, Security Warning - Trying to get back to stock

[Schfive]

Hey everyone,

Yesterday I decided to try to install CM10 on my device but after unlocking and rooting it, when I was installing the CM10 .zip on the phone, well, it didn't install and I can only get into the bootloader. I also regrettably forgot to make a backup of the stock ROM. Right now, I think I've made things worse. Clockwork wasn't working properly last night because the SD card couldn't mount. I was able to mount it and got TWRP on it instead. I've been trying to get the stock ROM on this thing all morning with no success. I simply don't know if I've been using the right RUU (this is a US T-Mo S4 device - I see two TMOUS RUUs and I've tried both without success). I tried flashing CW back on the device but no success with that either. At the moment, there is no recovery and when I try to access it from the bootloader, I get sent back to the bootloader and at the top left of the screen, along with ***TAMPERED*** and ***RELOCKED*** (I was able to get it relocked...hurrah?), it says ***Security Warning***. Same security warning comes up when I try factory reset from the bootloader and same with clear cache. At this point, I have no idea what's going on or how to get a recovery back on. I can't even check if the card is mounted.

Regards,
Schfive

 

[nash211]

If you can get to twrp then you can wipe your phone, find a new rom and mount the phone, un mount the phone after installing rom on phone, install rom then reboot.

 

[Ryandroid86]

Please people. I repeat this stuff almost daily. Read other posts first. They are all the same. If you have recovery like the guy above me said. You can flash a new ROM. But please PLEASE read. Make sure you flash the boot.img using fastboot. If you don't know how to do that. Search and/or read other forums in the section. Google will also work. And so does xda

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