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Hi. I looked throughout this cunk of the forum and couldn't find anything on the mater, so figured I'd ask.
I cannot get Recovery to work on my X2. Just got it yesterday (Love it so far, but I'd love to put the Atrix 4G on my phone.) I tried the boostrap method using the System Recovery app, and tried Clockwork Recovery. Reboot Into Recovery with System simply rebooted my phone, and the same with CWR. Manually pushing my phone into Recovery (power button and volume down at boot to select the option) Gives me an error. Any ideas?
Yes, I made sure my phone was rooted. lol
With the bootstrap you did hit install recovery first and then plugged into the wall Before hitting recovery mode, right?
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...Damnit, nope. It was plugged into my computer the entire time. I had it set to Charge Only, though.
Posted in wrong section...your issue seems to be resolved tho.
I unlocked my phone with the htc method. I had root, and superuser. titanium backup worked fine. I made a nandroid backup before I started messing with ROMS. I decided to flash infected's ROM first. Everything seemed to be going ok. It rebooted, and I got the cool beats animation. Then I got the htc splashscreen. then it just flipped back and forth between them for a half hour or so. something was obviously wrong. I tried rebooting the phone: same results. I can get into bootloader, both by holding volume down while powering up, and through the command prompt, via adb. I have a nandroid backup through twrp recovery, so no problem, right? well, it didn't work. So now, I can boot into the bootloader screen, but nothing else. I tried flashing a different ROM, but to no avail. Eventually, I noticed that I had htc sync running while I did all this. Did that wreck me? Any ideas what I can do now? I just tried to restore my nadroid backup again, without htc sync running, but all I get is a white htc screen. Please help me unbrick my phone!!!
whenever I try to flash ANY other rom, I get to the part where I have to use fastboot to flash the boot.img, and it says "sending boot" and just stays there forever.
Tried flashinf recovery.img, and the same thing happens. "sending recovery" and screen pause
God I hope someone smarter than me feels generous enough to help here...
Are you on windows? Did you install htc drivers?
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I am on windows 7, and I have the htc drivers installed. Like I said, I successfully completed the htc unlock method. I had no problems until I tried to flash a rom
So you hold volume down and power to enter fastboot. Select fastboot by hitting power again. Then plugin usb and it should say fastboot usb. Then what command do you type after that?
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now it wont even go into hboot. not with vol down and power, or through command prompt. before, it was going into hboot just fine, and I was using fastboot flash boot boot.img to flash the rom, but everything froze
now when I plug it in and use the command prompt to enter adb reboot bootloader, it just says device not found. holding power and vol does nothing
Hmmm.. Not sure why you can't get into fastboot but your using the wrong command. You want to type fastboot boot recovery.img. Recovery being the name of the recovery image in your folder.
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thanks. I'll try that if I can get back into the bootloader
What you did works for that only installs the kernel. Then you need to flash the rom. I never did it that way nor do I use twrp
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I did flash the rom.zip from twrp recovery. when it rebooted, it started to work, then just went into a boot loop. then I started trying to fix it, now it wont even come on
For now, I'm hoping that the battery just discharged during the process. I'm gonna let it charge for a few hours, and see what happens. I'm afraid that I might have done a battery pull in the middle of the process, though. When I first flashed the InfectedROM, the phone rebooted and got stuck in a loop between the beats graphics, and the htc quietly brilliant screen. it just kept going from one to the other. It went on for quite a while, and eventually, I think I pulled the battery to stop it. However, I was still able to get into the bootloader after this. I tried to reflash the rom, and a couple of others to no avail. When I decided to try to reflash recovery.img, is when it hit the fan, so to speak. after that, I was unable to boot into fastboot, or even get adb to recognize that there was a device there at all. Man, I hope letting the battery charge works. Like a moron, I don't have any insurance on my phone.
when I plug it in, windows intermittently makes the gong noise that something is connecting or disconnecting, and windows explorer briefly recognizes that a removeable drive is present, but I can't get the thing to charge, or turn on at all, and adb refuses to recognize that it connected, so I still cant manually put it into fastboot
well, I left the phone plugged in for about 7 hours. I hooked it up to the computer and once again tried to get into bootloader through adb. The computer said that the "daemon was started successfully" then goes right back to device not found. I guess Im screwed if no one else knows any tricks or ideas..
izzy spun said:
well, I left the phone plugged in for about 7 hours. I hooked it up to the computer and once again tried to get into bootloader through adb. The computer said that the "daemon was started successfully" then goes right back to device not found. I guess Im screwed if no one else knows any tricks or ideas..
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Pull the battery
Wait 2 minutes.
Put battery back in.
Hold down Vol - and power.
Do not be connected to anything. And are you SURE your battery is good?
PM me if you see this and I dont answer.
I pulled the battery and waited. I even grabbed the battery out of my girl's evo3d. I can get into bootloader via the vol down, and power, but it stopas and asks if I want to update. If I say no, it just reboots to the htc screen. If I say yes, it says updating, then says press power to reboot. Then it goes directly to the htc screen and freezes. While it's in the htc screen, I can use command prompt to get it back into bootloader via the "adb reboot bootloader" command, but I can't get to my recovery menu. I was going to mount usb storage, and put another rom on the sd card, then re-flash, but it won't allow me to get to recovery
izzy spun said:
I pulled the battery and waited. I even grabbed the battery out of my girl's evo3d. I can get into bootloader via the vol down, and power, but it stopas and asks if I want to update. If I say no, it just reboots to the htc screen. If I say yes, it says updating, then says press power to reboot. Then it goes directly to the htc screen and freezes. While it's in the htc screen, I can use command prompt to get it back into bootloader via the "adb reboot bootloader" command, but I can't get to my recovery menu. I was going to mount usb storage, and put another rom on the sd card, then re-flash, but it won't allow me to get to recovery
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Ok, soundslike you have a "PG86IMG.ZIP" on the root of your SD card. Dont worry, just swap cards with your old lady but put the ROM on it first.
You wont be able to do anything until you swap Sd cards or otherwise delete the PG86IMG.zip.
when I use command prompt to enter bootloader, I get the opening menu: bootloader, reboot, reboot booloader, and power down. If I press power to choose booloader rather than fastboot, the phone immediately goes back to asking me if I want to update, and no matter what I choose, the results are the same. it reboots to the htc screen
The three button method doesnt work b/c my home button is dead. Is there anyway to enter recovery mode from a pc?
I have cwm installed, rooted, everything...stuck while booting up after I flashed a mod, can't enter recovery mode without home button
bob7770699 said:
The three button method doesnt work b/c my home button is dead. Is there anyway to enter recovery mode from a pc?
I have cwm installed, rooted, everything...stuck while booting up after I flashed a mod, can't enter recovery mode without home button
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Plugging into your computer and typing "adb reboot recovery" should work. Also, I think there are apps on the market that can reboot the phone to recovery.
Do you have the CWM manager app? That also has an option to reboot to recovery.
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ctomgee said:
Plugging into your computer and typing "adb reboot recovery" should work. Also, I think there are apps on the market that can reboot the phone to recovery.
Do you have the CWM manager app? That also has an option to reboot to recovery.
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That works but I think you have to load the recovery into memory first...
I soft bricked an LG p506 about a month ago and while looking for a way to do the same thing I found the instructions, a quick google search should put you in the right direction
A sure thing is to boot to download mode with USB jig, then flash a completely new rom with Odin.
OP, I noticed you have a couple posts regarding being on AT&T's network. Are you sure you have an i9100, and not an AT&T variant, which is the SGH-I777? Or if you DO have an i9100, that you didn't flash a firmware meant for the SGH-I777? The most common reason I've seen for a non-functioning home button is flashing the wrong firmware.
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cdzo72 said:
That works but I think you have to load the recovery into memory first...
I soft bricked an LG p506 about a month ago and while looking for a way to do the same thing I found the instructions, a quick google search should put you in the right direction
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There is no such thing as a "soft brick" , Your device is either bricked or it isnt. The term "brick" is used far too loosely nowadays.
In some custom roms you can have a "reboot to recovery" option in the power menu (when you press the home button for 2 seconds or so)
Or, you can download an android terminal emulator and type "reboot recovery" into it (after giving it superuser permissions by typing in "su").
yeah i have an i9100. The problem is i went swimming with it a couple weeks back, and the home button (and mic + earset) doesnt work anymore. I was running checkRom on it and was flashing a mod thru the kitchen app, and now when it boots it says phone has stopped working and won't let me get past that.
So i cant use any soft buttons to get into recovery. I cant use the three button method. and I've tried the adb reboot recovery, wont work.
I can get into download mode though, so is my only option is to flash a rom via odin and hope that fc gets fixed?
bob7770699 said:
I've tried the adb reboot recovery, wont work.
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Did you try using a terminal emulator on the phone itself? Just "reboot recovery", not "adb reboot recovery". (Remember you have to give the app SU permissions first, if it doesn't request them on its own type in "su" and the do the "reboot recovery" command)
both cwm and rommanager have an option to do this from inside the app, just download one of the apps from market
Lol, it seems nobody want to understand that you cannot boot the phone and use an application from market....
I have the same problem... But I found that you can buy the three buttons, it's about 20€, but you need to open the phone. You found a lot of tutorial on the web to do this.
Hope this help
ctomgee said:
Plugging into your computer and typing "adb reboot recovery" should work. Also, I think there are apps on the market that can reboot the phone to recovery.
Do you have the CWM manager app? That also has an option to reboot to recovery.
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I am struggling with the same problem. I have a I9100 too and am familiair with rooting and upgrading.
But where should I typ "adb reboot recovery"? Can you be more specific?
TIA (Thanks In Advance)
As your phone is rooted it is very easy to get to recovery. Load Google Play and go to the app store and download "Quick Boot" and install. Run Quick Boot and it will give you an option to reboot the phone to recovery.
Great for stock phones with root.
Raoulius said:
I am struggling with the same problem. I have a I9100 too and am familiair with rooting and upgrading.
But where should I typ "adb reboot recovery"? Can you be more specific?
TIA (Thanks In Advance)
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hi guys
My problem is, I don't know the pattern/pin on it and the home button does not work. The friend that has the phone somehow forgot them by not using the phone awhile... Is there any chance I can get into recovery in this situation? Thanks
I have an htc droid dna running cyanfox 4.4 its locked and i cannot get into it, it also has fast boot enabled so i cannot reboot into recovery, what do i do? Ive looked but cannot find anything like it.
Plug your phone into your computer. open a command prompt in your platform-tools folder, and type adb reboot bootloader. This will reboot your phone into bootloader, and from there you can access your recovery to do whatever you need to.
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Plug your phone into your computer. open a command prompt in your platform-tools folder, and type adb reboot bootloader. This will reboot your phone into bootloader, and from there you can access your recovery to do whatever you need to.
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Sorry i forgot to mention but my usb debugging isnt enabled. And it being locked i cannot get into it to enable the usb debugging or disable the fast boot.
You are running a custom rom?
In any event, hold down power until it hard reboots. Once the screen shuts off, keep holding down the power button and press the volume down button at the same time, this should boot you into bootloader to access recovery.
Uzephi said:
You are running a custom rom?
In any event, hold down power until it hard reboots. Once the screen shuts off, keep holding down the power button and press the volume down button at the same time, this should boot you into bootloader to access recovery.
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Yes i do have a custom rom. I tried your tip but it did not help. When i tried (while the phone was on) the phone shut off and the second the screen went blank i pushed down the volume. But it did the same thing as always. Htc logo flashes twice then it boots up.
Can anyone else give some insight?
lolkidz said:
Can anyone else give some insight?
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what do you mean locked? bootloder locked?
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what do you mean locked? bootloder locked?
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No, password locked so i cant get into the phone and change settings. And i cant do a factory reset because the phone has fast boot mode enabled, and i dont have usb debugging enabled. So im in a corner here. I was hoping disconnecting the battery would work like a hard reboot and kick off the fast boot but it did not work.
lolkidz said:
No, password locked so i cant get into the phone and change settings. And i cant do a factory reset because the phone has fast boot mode enabled, and i dont have usb debugging enabled. So im in a corner here. I was hoping disconnecting the battery would work like a hard reboot and kick off the fast boot but it did not work.
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You don't need usb debugging enabled to do fastboot commands.
Fastboot oem task 28
Should wipe data for you.
dottat said:
You don't need usb debugging enabled to do fastboot commands.
Fastboot oem task 28
Should wipe data for you.
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It just says waiting for device. And it doesnt appear in the adb list of devices, though it does appear in the computer list of devices
lolkidz said:
It just says waiting for device. And it doesnt appear in the adb list of devices, though it does appear in the computer list of devices
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That means your PC isn't loading then right driver for it in fastboot mode.
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That means your PC isn't loading then right driver for it in fastboot mode.
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As ive said before, the phone is not in fastboot mode for programming. The fast boot im talking about is the mode on some phones that makes it boot up faster because it doesnt turn the phone completely off. Because of that i cannot reboot into my recovery or fastboot.
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As ive said before, the phone is not in fastboot mode for programming. The fast boot im talking about is the mode on some phones that makes it boot up faster because it doesnt turn the phone completely off. Because of that i cannot reboot into my recovery or fastboot.
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Holding power and volume up until you detect the reboot and then switching to holding only volume down overrides that. Make sure when doing this you are not plugged in.
Soooo, why not just input the password to unlock the phone, just a shot in the dark OR give it back to whom you stole it from?
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Soooo, why not just input the password to unlock the phone, just a shot in the dark OR give it back to whom you stole it from?
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I did not steal this phone. It was stolen from me. That is why i know everything on the phone, except the password. And the volume up and power method did not work for me.
lolkidz said:
I did not steal this phone. It was stolen from me. That is why i know everything on the phone, except the password. And the volume up and power method did not work for me.
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It is volume down. That could be why it didn't work.
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Uzephi said:
It is volume down. That could be why it didn't work.
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That method still didnt work. Is there something i can do thatll maybe do a softbrick to the phone and allow me to flash it or get into bootloader?
So am i screwed here?
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So am i screwed here?
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jtag
is there maybe anyway that i could touch 2 spots together on the motherboard to do some sort of hard reset? or would anything like that fry the board? im at the point of desperation
Good day to all,
I have someone's phone but I need some help to resolve it's issue. It's an Alcatel One touch pop c1 4015a. The owner asked me how to factory reset it, so I gave step by step instructions as to how to do it. After resetting the phone, it some how got soft bricked, just stays at the logo screen.
So right now, I have it trying to flash it with so flash tools. Tried accessing recovery mode but it was not working. So I thought of if it was possible to flash a recovery image via so flash tools, which I found and tried but it wouldn't start downloading. Afterwards, all of a sudden the recovery mode was working (I swear it was not working before) so I am trying to install the stock rom via sdcard, but it starts and stops.
So right now I am think if the USB debugging feature may have anything to do with it or maybe I have to install cwm or twrp. Which is why I am here with the following questions:
1 Is it possible to install cwm via the phone stock recovery mode?
2 Is it possible to use ADB to install cwm? If so can I get some noob friendly instructions to do so
3 Can I somehow enable USB debug via recovery mode or ADB?
4 What on earth can I do to fix this phone if all of the above is not possible?
I do apologize as well if I posted this question in the wrong area or if there are similar topics like this one which I didn't see.
Thanks much
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Okay bud, I can tell you're new to this, answer to your first question is NO, you have to do that via fast boot which I can tell you how to get into, second questions answer is MAYBE, but fast boot is easier and uses the same drivers (on your of) third questions answer is NO only on custom recoveries like cwm and twrp. Fourth questions answer is, if you have a cwm recovery image, boot the phone into fast boot (two ways: look in recovery for an option called "reboot boot loader" if you can't find it, try booting up the phone while holding volume down (-) and power. Then connect it to your pc and open a terminal or command prompt and type: fastboot flash recovery (now drag and drop the recovery file in the command prompt, it should automatically enter its file path) and hit enter. That should work, if you need more help ask
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Okay bud, I can tell you're new to this, answer to your first question is NO, you have to do that via fast boot which I can tell you how to get into, second questions answer is MAYBE, but fast boot is easier and uses the same drivers (on your of) third questions answer is NO only on custom recoveries like cwm and twrp. Fourth questions answer is, if you have a cwm recovery image, boot the phone into fast boot (two ways: look in recovery for an option called "reboot boot loader" if you can't find it, try booting up the phone while holding volume down (-) and power. Then connect it to your pc and open a terminal or command prompt and type: fastboot flash recovery (now drag and drop the recovery file in the command prompt, it should automatically enter its file path) and hit enter. That should work, if you need more help ask
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Ok I dont see that option in recovery mode at all. Which leaves the vol - + power button combo. Is something specific suppose to happen while holding these buttons? The phone might just continuously restart until i let go then it would go to the logo screen. If I try vol + & - with the power button, it will stay blank for a while as after i let go the button then it would power on to the logo screen.
It should either show a custom screen (pic maybe?) or freeze at the boot logo.
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Or you can try pressing power for a second (until you see the boot logo or feel it vibrate) then releasing it, and then holding volume down. This process varies on phones
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Still no luck. And for some reason, it won't detect the phone in ADB mode. I have installed drivers for it, more than once.
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Are you sure they're the right drivers? If you're on Windows plug in the device while in recovery, and open control panel, then click devices and printers, and it should show you a list of device attached to your computer,now find yours (or tell me what you see) and ill help you from there. Oh, and also, what SPECIFIC device is this?
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It's an Alcatel one touch c1. Right now , I connected it to the pc while in recovery mode. But it gives a drive descriptor request error. I installed all drivers I came across for this phone.
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It gives an option in recovery mode to update via ADB as well
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EDIT: If i try to use the sdcard option, it immediately stops
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It gives an option in recovery mode to update via ADB as well
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EDIT: If i try to use the sdcard option, it immediately stops
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Try updating it through adb
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