a method to unbrick HTC ONE S S3( villec2 ) with third party recovery & rom flashed
NOTICE: YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO USE adb & fastboot AT LEAST OR IT MAY HARMFUL TO YOUR DEVICE!
After waste two days, finally got villec2 restore.
This method is for those who bricked HTC ONE S S3( villec2 ) with third party recovery & rom(like twrp & CM ) flashed:
ps: It seems that villec2 sell in China have 4 buttons( 3 in other country? ), it maybe a possible reason that many official OTA / nonofficial ROMs doesn't support this device.
After waste two days, finally got villec2 restore.
This method is for those who bricked HTC ONE S S3( villec2 ) with third party recovery & rom(like twrp & CM ) flashed:
- find your IMG recovery( like PJ40IMG_VILLEC2_U_ICS_40_HTCCN_CHS_1.11.1400.140_Radio_16.17.20.02U_16.07.20.18_M_release_279226_signed.zip , not OTA ) and CID must equal to your device's CID,( IMG's CID in android-info.txt and you could find yours in fastboot oem readcid );
- rename it like PJ40IMG.zip(first segment in *.zip )
- unzip boot_signed.img & recovery_signed.img in *.zip , flash them use fastboot( fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img & fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img ), and erase cache;
- make sure your device was relocked;
- reboot to RUU( use fastboot oem rebootRUU );
- fastboot flash zip <Your_zip_file_name>.zip
- after flash was done ,reboot device
- now your device may unbricked.
ps: It seems that villec2 sell in China have 4 buttons( 3 in other country? ), it maybe a possible reason that many official OTA / nonofficial ROMs doesn't support this device.