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My HTC Desire 820s (dual sim Indian variant) is in boot loop. Tried SP Flash tool but no win. Fastboot is getting detected and commands are working but once i try turn on or reboot to recovery the phone starts rebooting like forever.
HTC told me that the mother board is gone. But if it is so then i should not get fastboot right?
Please help.

tuxerver said:
My HTC Desire 820s (dual sim Indian variant) is in boot loop. Tried SP Flash tool but no win. Fastboot is getting detected and commands are working but once i try turn on or reboot to recovery the phone starts rebooting like forever.
HTC told me that the mother board is gone. But if it is so then i should not get fastboot right?
Please help.
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Look and ask for here, you can help http://forum.xda-developers.com/des...ock-lollipop-5-0-2-ruus-guide-mt6752-t3279089

How-To UNLOCK Verizon Desire 530 Boot-Loader

As I had anticipated the SD Card I came up with for unlocking the Desire 526 Verizon is working on the Desire 530 Verizon.
@supermaxkato has created a tutorial in the 526 section to do this. (See the last page of the thread below)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/de...oader-root-t3587118/post72408625#post72408625
Follow the Instruction for making the SD Card in the beginning ot the thread Here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/de...oader-root-t3587118/post72408625#post72408625
Then Follow the instruction posted by Supermaxkato to unlock your desire 530. VERIZON.
When I get some free time I will Re-Write here the instructions for the 530 only.
@supermaxkato
Verizon HTC Desire 530: unlock bootloader, custom recovery, root, xposed
I'll put the tutorial here since it's related to the 526, and then eventually start a new thread in the 530 forum.
This won't include every step, just the main ones, so this assumes you've unlocked an HTC phone before.
Do I have to put the disclaimer about not blaming me if something bad happens to your phone?
You should know this already!
*All credit goes to @BigCountry907!
*Thanks to @jcase, @Chainfire, and other xda folks for making all of this magic possible.
Verizon HTC Desire 530 prepaid: unlock bootloader, custom recovery, root, xposed
UNLOCK BOOTLOADER
1) Create the SD card as described earlier in this thread (I used the exact SD card he purchased, not sure if it works with other brands)
2) Power off the 530 and insert your created SD card
3) Boot into download mode (black background) with volume down+power
4) Connect to your windows PC (I did all of this on a laptop running XP)
5) Login in to htcdev.com and follow the steps to unlock the bootloader (choose HTC Desire* just like you did with the 526)
6) Open a command line window and type: fastboot oem get_identifier_token
7) Follow the rest of the instructions on htcdev to finish unlocking the bootloader
It should now say "unlocked" instead of locked
Done.
CUSTOM RECOVERY
1) Remove the custom SD card and replace with any other one
2) Download the custom recovery created by @jcase from his non-verizon 530 root thread
3) Put it wherever fastboot.exe is on your PC
4) Open a command line window and type: fastboot flash recovery twrp.img (or whatever the *.img is named)
5) Hit the phone power button as instructed on the phone to complete
6) From the 530 download mode menu (black background) choose: reboot bootloader
7) From the 530 bootloader menu (white background) choose: reboot recovery
It should open TWRP.
Done.
ROOT
1) Place the superSU.zip from @Chainfire on your sd card (make sure it's one for android 6.0)
2) Boot into TWRP recovery and install it
3) Reboot
SuperSU should now be in your app drawer
Done.
XPOSED
1) Place the xposed-v87-sdk23-arm.zip on your sd card (this version is specific to android 6.0)
2) Boot into TWRP recovery and install it
3) Reboot and install XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4
Open the installer and you can now install and use xposed apks.
Done.
Finally your Verizon HTC Desire 530 can be all you want it to be!
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Bigcountry. Thanks to your freaking amazing work. And everyone else who took the time to accomplish this. And the wife's add girlfriends who tolerate us lol. I have the 530 from Wal-Mart. Prepaid. I've gotten better at rooting over the past year of just reading teaching myself. So if you could please message me or post on exactly how to go about unlocking or running this off my SD. I did read everything and attempt the SD card but I believe in going to have to get a new SD card like others. Any chance when you get time to give me detailed instructions on how to do this. Like baby steps lol. So excited to see this thread. Can't imagine the work it takes so I appreciate each and everyone of y'all. I got few more questions as well. Hope you guys continue on this Verizon phone. Thanks guys!

Bootloader
i did something wrong trying to unlock my bootloader vzw 530. Now it says software status modified locked s-on. I try to reboot and it flashes some wrong build type and i cant get past bootloader/ download mode. I can get to recovery mode i just cant get into phone. Have no idea what i did or how to find a way to get my phone back to stock. I have been trying for three days. Please please help. Thanks!

Worked great tyvm

Non-prepaid?
Does this work/has anyone tried this with the non prepaid version of this phone? If it doesn't work then what's stopping it from doing so? Thanks.

I gave it a try, any advice?
So, I made an SD card from the HTC.img file, placed it into my Verizon 530 and booted into Download Mode. But using "fastboot getvar all" still shows all my original info and using "fastboot oem get_identifier_token" returns the same error as before..,
I did notice one strange thing though., Everything that Ive seen regarding the Desire 530 says that the device is an htc_a16ul but my device reports as being an htc_a16wl I am assuming this is a problem.

@supermaxkato
@BigCountry907
When i insert my special sd card and boot into download mode i still can't get an identifier token. When i try to boot into Android the system hangs at the HTC logo and i have to eventually force a power down. Any suggestions??
My system info:
Verizon HTC Desire 530 Prepay
Android 6.0.1
A16_WL
HTCD160LVWPP

ericzollman said:
@supermaxkato
@BigCountry907
When i insert my special sd card and boot into download mode i still can't get an identifier token. When i try to boot into Android the system hangs at the HTC logo and i have to eventually force a power down. Any suggestions??
My system info:
Verizon HTC Desire 530 Prepay
Android 6.0.1
A16_WL
HTCD160LVWPP
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This makes me think you didn't build your sd card correctly. I would try following @BigCountry907 instructions again and be sure you are using the same sd card type he mentioned. Good luck.

supermaxkato said:
This makes me think you didn't build your sd card correctly. I would try following @BigCountry907 instructions again and be sure you are using the same sd card type he mentioned. Good luck.
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I guess it could be the sd card. I'm using a PNY Prime Performance 32gb. The site says that it's rated at 85mb a sec...
Dunno how i could have did anything wrong writing the sd. I formatted and created the sd with the tools he used and it's a really simple process.
When i try to do a full system boot it does try to boot from the sd card but it seems to just hang on the white htc logo. Although oddly enough i can detect the phone using adb while it's in this state. So it's def doing something. But booting into download mode just seems to boot from the phone. IDK. I'll keep messing with it cause i can't abide a non-rooted phone.
I'll keep you guys updated...

@BigCountry907
Do I need to flash the RUU in the your 526 thread before I start with the SD card creation in @supermaxkato 's guide? I assume no but I just want to double check
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Ok well now this is a problem, I burned the SD card with is supposedly rated at max. 95 MB/s and booted my phone with that in, and now it's hung up on the white HTC logo in a fashion very similar to @ericzollman
Holding the power button does nothing, and it was at almost full charge before I started. Guess I have to wait till it dies? No way to get info from ADB either, the device is detected but logcat and other commands return missing path errors. Anything I can do?
Here's the card I had:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ts32gusdu3_32gb_ultimate_uhs_i_microsdhc.html
Sorry about the double post
EDIT: holding power and volume down rebooted me into download mode, so I guess the card I picked was ok? I'll stop for now until I can get some more info on what the heck just went down...

Can't get identifier token for htc dev site
In the guide you say to follow instructions on the htcdev site to get your bootloader unlocked, except I can't get the oem identifier token to put into htcdev and I can't turn oem unlock on, and therefore I can't unlock my phone. Am I missing something or is this tutorial not working?

BigCountry907 said:
As I had anticipated the SD Card I came up with for unlocking the Desire 526 Verizon is working on the Desire 530 Verizon.
@supermaxkato has created a tutorial in the 526 section to do this. (See the last page of the thread below)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/de...oader-root-t3587118/post72408625#post72408625
Follow the Instruction for making the SD Card in the beginning ot the thread Here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/de...oader-root-t3587118/post72408625#post72408625
Then Follow the instruction posted by Supermaxkato to unlock your desire 530. VERIZON.
When I get some free time I will Re-Write here the instructions for the 530 only.
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Thanks a lot I used in a MetroPCS desire 530 and worked very good

EDL mode

EDL (Emergency Download) Mode has been removed/ disable from MIUI 8.1 onwards and Redmi 4A later Xiaomi devices. So you can flash MIUI Fastboot ROMs on your device by using Fastboot mode only, if your bootloader is unlocked. And, we can't use Qualcomm Jig Cable(s) also now.
So, we have only one way to know Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 port from PC. It's Test Point Method. This method will work with every MIUI ROMs (Upgrade/ Downgrade) , Locked Bootloader/ Unlocked Bootloader and also work to recover from a Dead boot device (Bricked).
While touching these two points with a metal tweezers plugin the usb cable to the phone and PC will make the phone enter edl mode. You can then release the tweezers.

Bro edl mode is not removed. It's just moved to fastboot. You can enter edl easily by "fastboot oem edl" command. Hope this helped :laugh:

rkmadotra said:
Bro edl mode is not removed. It's just moved to fastboot. You can enter edl easily by "fastboot oem edl" command. Hope this helped :laugh:
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Thanks for the explanation, in any case tere can be situations that fastboot it's not available, hard but possible, in that case that info is helpful...

TioCareca said:
Thanks for the explanation, in any case tere can be situations that fastboot it's not available, hard but possible, in that case that info is helpful...
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In any case, the bootloader muz be unlocked to initiate EDL using ADB fastboot..

rkmadotra said:
Bro edl mode is not removed. It's just moved to fastboot. You can enter edl easily by "fastboot oem edl" command.
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:laugh::laugh::laugh:
what make you think they are so lame ? the result is :
failed ! remote device is locked. eom edl is not allowed

adrenochrome25 said:
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
what make you think they are so lame ? the result is :
failed ! remote device is locked. eom edl is not allowed
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What makes you think I'm so lame as well. I have used this command and flashed my mi max 2 with fastboot rom. Tho I don't remember if bootloader was locked or unlocked. Probably it was unlocked. But still no issues as anyone can unlock thier bootloader officially.

i wasnt intended at you. it seems they forgot some ways when they first deployed the edl blocking access but with the most recent "roms" they have blocked every access way to edl when bootloader is locked : adb, fastboot & cable
the only way left is from internal pins, but we can expect they will hide them even better on new phones.
Today it's much worth to wait 72h (+30days if you just already unlocked another one today) than opening the models that have "non removable" batteries and risking to leave traces/damages
it's really a shame that xiaomi lock their phone this way, it's a very bad message at the users (fastboot is so much restricted that you cant even switch between stable&dev anymore with locked bootloader) but we still have the chance that they allow unlocking and that this unlocking is a real one allowing full control

Fastboot rom isn't needed untill we brick our device and we can't brick the device untill we have unlocked bootloader. So basically edl mode will work when it's really needed.

It doesn't work for my MM2. Got it since 4/12/17. Didn't know i need to login to mi acc to register my device, set usb debugging, developer's mode, unlock status...I had the phone for less than 2 hrs after updating to MIUI 9 from ver 8 (using the updater app) before it suddenly froze up, crashed and went into bootloop. I tried contacting xiaomi svc ctr but those clowns refused to help saying my device is china export.
I cldn't even get them to help me register my device on my mi acc using the imei & s/n info. So if anyone could offer some suggestions as to how I could ressurrect my phone, I wld be most grateful. Failing which the only avenue is to bring it to a svc ctr in China to get them fix it.
Rgds

My test points don't seem to work
I opened up my mi max2 and followed the steps to short the testpoints but my pc doesn't seem to pick up the Qualcomm device.
Anyway to trigger the thing so that the Qualcomm device can be detected?

Nike Lee said:
I opened up my mi max2 and followed the steps to short the testpoints but my pc doesn't seem to pick up the Qualcomm device.
Anyway to trigger the thing so that the Qualcomm device can be detected?
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I managed to short the test points and got the Qualcomm HSB device on the device mgr, flashed the mi max2 with the latest global stable (V9.2.1) rom. But the phone is still stuck at the Android logo with 3 dots...
I wld have thought EDL flashing wld have wiped out everything on the phone and start afresh?
I am now thinking of formatting the entire phone and reflashing it again. How wld I do that?
Thanks for any inputs.

Hi, Does EDL with test point flashing refresh the boot partitions?
I have shorted the test points and successfully reflash the phone with the latest stable global ROMs (even back to MIUI 8.5.6) but just couldn't get the phone past the MI/Android logo after restarting it
If the boot partition files have been messed up and EDL flashing is not refreshing these files, no matter how many times I try to EDL flash the device, it's not going to help. Pls correct me if I am wrong.
Any other options I can try?

rkmadotra said:
Bro edl mode is not removed. It's just moved to fastboot. You can enter edl easily by "fastboot oem edl" command. Hope this helped :laugh:
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bro thank u so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. it worked im so happy now...........was trying since hours....but u helped me mannn

How to unbrick my L31 ?

Hi there,
Here is some background...
- I had a L31 single SIM
- I used a set of two SD cards (running software update from hidden menu *#*#2846579#*#*) to switch my phone to dual sim
- This made me dual sim on EMUI 4.1.1
- Some month later (today), I don't need dual SIM anymore and wanted to get back to stock...
- Flashed some I don't know what from smart flasher or quick flasher or whatever (VOL+ VOL- POWER)
- Ended in a brick with no quick flasher available
- Downloaded P9 Lite toolkit 0.0.0.12
- Unlocked my bootloader (lucky I still had the box)
- Now from the toolkit, I tried to flash several thing with no success, I've been able to flash TWRP but again, anything flashed from TWRP failed
- No matter what crap I flash, I still can't access the quick flasher or boot any rom
What can I do to unbrick that phone ?
The ideal would be to be back on latest stock official rom for single sim
Cheers

P9 Lite VNS-L22 Bricked - No bootloader, don't know the cust

Hi everyone! I need some help here, I have a Huawei p9 lite VNS-l22, from my uncle, this phone is in a bootloop, after a few reboots, it enter in E-recovery mode, but don't fix the problem
I can't unlock bootloader, because, huawei stopped sending codes
Another problem that I have, is that I don't know which is the "Cust" of the phone, because, it never completely boot, so I can't see it in settings
Apparently, It entered in this "situation" during a failed update
Thanks!

one0407 said:
Hi everyone! I need some help here, I have a Huawei p9 lite VNS-l22, from my uncle, this phone is in a bootloop, after a few reboots, it enter in E-recovery mode, but don't fix the problem
I can't unlock bootloader, because, huawei stopped sending codes
Another problem that I have, is that I don't know which is the "Cust" of the phone, because, it never completely boot, so I can't see it in settings
Apparently, It entered in this "situation" during a failed update
Thanks!
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Hello,
try a factory reset from e-recovery..
Yes you could unlock the bootloader via paid service,
but you cannot because you cannot access
the developer options and tick the oem unlock...
Do you remember if the device was on android 6 or 7 before the bootloop ?
Which region do you live ? (for the cust)

Dadditz said:
Hello,
try a factory reset from e-recovery..
Yes you could unlock the bootloader via paid service,
but you cannot because you cannot access
the developer options and tick the oem unlock...
Do you remember if the device was on android 6 or 7 before the bootloop ?
Which region do you live ? (for the cust)
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Hi! sorry for late response!
I´m not sure if it was android 6 or 7
I live in Venezuela, Latin America, what do you recommend, without unlocking bootloader, e recovery factory reset doesnt work

one0407 said:
Hi! sorry for late response!
I´m not sure if it was android 6 or 7
I live in Venezuela, Latin America, what do you recommend, without unlocking bootloader, e recovery factory reset doesnt work
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Don't worry dude,
we can reply when we find time for...
Important !! READ BEFORE DO ...
I made a little search and think you
have a couple possibility...
1 - bring your device to a service point but it will cost you money.
2 - try flash a firmware and pray your phone someway will come back to life...
You have nothing to lose, try doing this ...
Download THIS FILE (update.zip).
Unzip it and extract update.app file.
Take an SD card with at least 4gb and format as FAT32.
Then inside that SD card create a folder and rename it DLOAD.
Put update.app file into DLOAD folder and insert the SD inside the device.
Turn off the device then turn it on holding vol+ vol- and power buttons together
till a flash screen will appear...
If it goes well you will have a device with a corrupt but functioning firmware ...
At this point you'll be able to unlock the bootloader (it will cost 4 euros),
make a complete rebrand (asian L22 version) and have a full functioning device..
If something will not go as expected, only way is bring the device to a service point...
Choise remain yours..
Cheers

Dadditz said:
Don't worry dude,
we can reply when we find time for...
Important !! READ BEFORE DO ...
I made a little search and think you
have a couple possibility...
1 - bring your device to a service point but it will cost you money.
2 - try flash a firmware and pray your phone someway will come back to life...
You have nothing to lose, try doing this ...
Download THIS FILE (update.zip).
Unzip it and extract update.app file.
Take an SD card with at least 4gb and format as FAT32.
Then inside that SD card create a folder and rename it DLOAD.
Put update.app file into DLOAD folder and insert the SD inside the device.
Turn off the device then turn it on holding vol+ vol- and power buttons together
till a flash screen will appear...
If it goes well you will have a device with a corrupt but functioning firmware ...
At this point you'll be able to unlock the bootloader (it will cost 4 euros),
make a complete rebrand (asian L22 version) and have a full functioning device..
If something will not go as expected, only way is bring the device to a service point...
Choise remain yours..
Cheers
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THANK YOU! this actually worked very well!

one0407 said:
THANK YOU! this actually worked very well!
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You have been very lucky and I am so happy
you can still use the device. :highfive:
Cheers