HTC M8 will not boot recovery mode

[gokulb]

Hello all,

I had bought a HTC M8 Eye and came with Stock rom kitkat4.4.4

I had followed the root methods. Successfully unlocked the bootloader

1. Boots into bootloader
2. After attempting to flash the TWRP recovery image to the device I am not able to enter recovery. The system does attempt to enter and I receive the pink message at the top of the screen "Entering Recovery..." but then the system reboots and enters the bootloader
3. If i reboot it phone boots normally.
4. I have tried to flash twrp or cwm both - no results.
5. I tried to flash many versions of twrp and cwm - no results
6. i tried to clear cache via ADB and flash recovery again - no result

Kindly help
Thanks in advance.
Gokul

 

[benny3]

Sounds like you are flashing the wrong recovery. You need the recovery for your specific phone and carrier

 

[gokulb]

ok let me try and come back

Thanks

 

[benny3]

ok let me try and come back

Thanks

What carrier

 

[gokulb]

Vodafone india sim and i have tried the following recovery img

1. openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8.img
2. openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8_whl.img
3. openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8_wlv.img
4. openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.2-m8.img
5. openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-m8_whl.img
6. openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.2-m8_wlv.img

So should i go for earlier versions?

 

[benny3]

what was the out put of the cmd prompt when flashing with fastboot?

 

[gokulb]

Hey
extremely sorry i was unwell to report.

i tried to flash once again and this is the prompt i get.

target reported max download size of 1826406400 bytes
sending 'recovery' (14818 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.785s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.533s]
finished. total time: 2.317s
Apples-MacBook-Prolatform-tools apple$

do help getting frustrated everytime.
Thanks in advance.

2. Tried HTC One 2014 (M8) All-In-One Toolkit V2.0 [4-19-2014] [PERM ROOT] - intially it said error: device not found

then installed all HTC Drivers and at 1st it said error : device not found
then on the second cmd it flashed twrp.

Then aswell no luck.

 

[benny3]

Is the bootloader unlocked?

 

[gokulb]

Yes It in unlocked
this is what is displayed

***software status: Modified***
***unlocked***
Mels_tuhl pvt ship s-on
radio - 1.22.

 

[benny3]

By the looks of the recoveries you installed you have sprint and verizon recoveries in the list to. My guess you still have the wrong recovery flashed
This is the one you want...Techerrata Downloads - Browsing m8. Grab the 2.8.1 and flash it

 

[gokulb]

hey

I tried flashing 2.8.1 with usb cables changed

Apples-MacBook-Pro:desktop apple$ cd platform-tools
Apples-MacBook-Prolatform-tools apple$ ./fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8.img
target reported max download size of 1826414592 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16576 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.978s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.633s]
finished. total time: 2.611s
Apples-MacBook-Prolatform-tools apple$ ./fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8.img
target reported max download size of 1826414592 bytes
sending 'recovery' (16576 KB)...
OKAY [ 2.058s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.649s]
finished. total time: 2.707s

it says okay. does not boot to recovery

 

[benny3]

Are you rooted by chance?

 

[benny3]

Have you tried booting into recovery with fastboot? Then you can install superuser and try TWRP Manager or flashify to install recovery

"fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8.img"

 

[gokulb]

Apples-MacBook-Prolatform-tools apple$ ./fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.8.1.0-m8.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 2.126s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: dtb not found)
finished. total time: 2.128s

 

[benny3]

EDIT: I just did it and it to said boot img but it did boot into recovery

No idea why its saying downloading boot.img. It should be the recovery img. Doyou have abootimg in your fastboot/adb folder? also you ddo have the recovery img in there right?

I find renaming the recovery to just "recovery" it makes it easier to remember and type so it would be

fastboot boot recovery.img

 

[gokulb]

hey

1. tried boot into recovery changing the name recovery.img - no luck



2. attaching my folder having all the files, i have the recovery.img file. But which is the boot.img file?

 

[benny3]

Well i would say is this recovery doesn't support the M8 EYE so until there is a recovery for that model you are out of luck. you can try Phils recovery

[m8][CWM Advanced Edition] PhilZ Touch | HTC One (M8) | XDA Forums

 

[gokulb]

hey thanks a bunch..
i have tried this now. this too has disappointed me. anyways i shall wait and follow for the new recovery versions.

Thanks a lot for your time.

 

[donnickle]

i have an htc one m8 but wont boot after an installation of 6.0 was done. when I tried the bootloader it said locked at the top
m8_UL_CA PVT SHIP s-off
CID-11111111
HBOOT-3.19.0.0000
RADIO-1.29.214500021.12G
OPENDSP-V51.2.2-00593-M8974_FO.1015
OS-6.12.401.4
eMMC-B00T 2048MB
DEC 17 2015,14:15:48.23766