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I'm not sure if this is a soft brick, full brick, or not bricked at all..not getting flashing red light or anything, but i am getting stuck at the white ATT boot screen
I'm not a dev. I was only trying to set my phone up wth root, Adeo ROM and Gingerbread theme but then ran into connectivity issues when i was trying to flash GB to it that i think had something to do with ADB not staying in \Sbin
- see this thread
Now i just did a factory reset and i am stuck in bootloader. Since i'm not familiar and don't want to brick it from here (if it's not already) some knowledgeable help would be GREATLY appreciated as to what do next i'm just a bit nervous to play at this point
UPDATE: I just noticed when i turn my phone landscape i get half (the right half) of the MOtolur login screen...half stays white ATT....weird
Thanks
i am no pro here, but try holding the vol down on boot from battery pull.. then factory reset from menus and delete cache.. then i am pretty sure you will boot fine...
the issue is your cache if i am not mistaken.
I have no idea what i did, but for now i am booting up again!
I tried to select what i thought was Factory Reset from Fast Boot menu. It didn't actually ever boot up from that. but after another battery pull it rebooted normally...very happy to see that!
For now everything looks good...now hopefully my ADB issue is going to be resolved with new driver installations and the flash...
u posted in the wrong froum but this is what u should do
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991595
and this is what u do if u brick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991072
I appreciate the reply, and i appologize for posting in the wrong forum
i tried to flash that ROM but it doesn't install...believe it or not i am having a bigger issue than the previous...my phone is not being recognized through the USB bc for some reason ADB keeps getting deleted. Even if i manually add it it still does not allow me to flash anything, the phone acts as though not recgonized, but it is recognized through normal user USB functions..
Again, this is the thread related to that
and despite what the Title reads i assure you it does not seem fixed by anyone who has posted in that forum except one person
Dillsnik said:
I appreciate the reply, and i appologize for posting in the wrong forum
i tried to flash that ROM but it doesn't install...believe it or not i am having a bigger issue than the previous...my phone is not being recognized through the USB bc for some reason ADB keeps getting deleted. Even if i manually add it it still does not allow me to flash anything, the phone acts as though not recgonized, but it is recognized through normal user USB functions..
Again, this is the thread related to that
and despite what the Title reads i assure you it does not seem fixed by anyone who has posted in that forum except one person
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man if im not mistaken, you can just flash the sbf file with
RSD lite even with offline adb.
trying that now actually...got hung the first time..going again now
Thanks
uhm, mate do you have the proper drivers installed?
yes, except for the adb issue
UPDATE - the SBF flash WORKED! hallelujah! lol
Moved as not android development
Have a dell streak that was running 2.2 fine..reformatted the sim card, then did a factory reset, and the phone just went into a reboot loop. Trust me, I have been to every resource on every forum and spent hours trying to fix it. I used QDL, streakflash, etc multiple times and on multiple computers. I was getting the error about the driver that everyone has, but i eventually figured out that it is not the driver, it is the fact that as soon as QDL gets to that point, the streak goes to the screen saying "factory reset, wait for reboot", over and over and over.
I have been able to get it to the point where I can get to fastboot, or the screen that allows you to restore from the sim, but that is it. I have flashed the recovery image with fastboot, i have tried restoring with the dell 309, 318 pkg's, the 2.2 rom, multiple times. Streakflash always gets me back to the ablity to enable fastboot screen, but qdl always takes me to the factory reset screen. Restoring from the sim SD card just brings up a black screen, and i've tried 3 different sd cards. Running the engineer test on the internal sd says everything is fine.
So, I have tried all of these steps 10 times or more, and I get nothing, so if anyone has another method, let me know...Also, as the title states, i will send my streak to you and pay you to get it back up and running, I don't care if its a custom rom or stock or 2.2 or 1.6 or whatever. At my wits end...
Also, I live in the chicago area if someone wants me to just bring it to them.
Thanks!
by sim card do u mean the microsd card ????
if ur able to get to the fastboot mode u r safe.
Have u tried flashing the CWM recovery ?
If ur able to do that flash then flash 1.5.1 streakdroid rom.
I always use fastboot and recovery to install roms.
Never used qdl and hence cannot answer questions there.
Mio
jateelover said:
Have a dell streak that was running 2.2 fine..reformatted the sim card, then did a factory reset, and the phone just went into a reboot loop. Trust me, I have been to every resource on every forum and spent hours trying to fix it. I used QDL, streakflash, etc multiple times and on multiple computers. I was getting the error about the driver that everyone has, but i eventually figured out that it is not the driver, it is the fact that as soon as QDL gets to that point, the streak goes to the screen saying "factory reset, wait for reboot", over and over and over.
I have been able to get it to the point where I can get to fastboot, or the screen that allows you to restore from the sim, but that is it. I have flashed the recovery image with fastboot, i have tried restoring with the dell 309, 318 pkg's, the 2.2 rom, multiple times. Streakflash always gets me back to the ablity to enable fastboot screen, but qdl always takes me to the factory reset screen. Restoring from the sim SD card just brings up a black screen, and i've tried 3 different sd cards. Running the engineer test on the internal sd says everything is fine.
So, I have tried all of these steps 10 times or more, and I get nothing, so if anyone has another method, let me know...Also, as the title states, i will send my streak to you and pay you to get it back up and running, I don't care if its a custom rom or stock or 2.2 or 1.6 or whatever. At my wits end...
Also, I live in the chicago area if someone wants me to just bring it to them.
Thanks!
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Few months ago somebody asked for the same help, gave him my name, address, so i could help, said he'll send the streak over but never did,.never heard from him since, do i have to make another mistake of giving my info to somebody whom i do not know so i could help him? For i also do not know what he can do with my name and address.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA Premium App
drgopoos said:
by sim card do u mean the microsd card ????
if ur able to get to the fastboot mode u r safe.
Have u tried flashing the CWM recovery ?
If ur able to do that flash then flash 1.5.1 streakdroid rom.
I always use fastboot and recovery to install roms.
Never used qdl and hence cannot answer questions there.
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Ok, thank you. Yes, i meant the sd card, haha. I am at work now, but will give that a shot tonight when i get home. I appreciate the advice. Is the CWM Recovery file on streakdroid's site? I know the streakdroid roms are. Thanks again!
eowyn0821 said:
Mio
Few months ago somebody asked for the same help, gave him my name, address, so i could help, said he'll send the streak over but never did,.never heard from him since, do i have to make another mistake of giving my info to somebody whom i do not know so i could help him? For i also do not know what he can do with my name and address.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA Premium App
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Well, I am not that person...I will try the method mentioned above. If that does not work, I will PM you, and we can chat or talk on the phone or email or whatever you would like...thank you
jateelover said:
Well, I am not that person...I will try the method mentioned above. If that does not work, I will PM you, and we can chat or talk on the phone or email or whatever you would like...thank you
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Just pm me. I check everyday. Goodluck and I hope you'll be able to fix it by yourself.
Thanks to eowynn
Just wanted to let everyone know that eowyn helped fix my streak, and was awesome and a great help. He sells phones in the market for what appear to be great prices also. Smart and knows what he's doing, and a great help...
So I upgraded my Dell Streak to StreakDroid some time ago and had been updating along the way as new versions came out. At around 1.9.0 my streak started crashing every which way. So I reverted back to the old version - no luck. Then I reflashed 1.9 still no go. My streak now crashes basically whenever I try do anything useful with it. Whenever I open Maps, Market, browse a page with any pictures, watch a video, or even think about using flash my streak freezes up and then capacitive buttons flash a few times and the Streak reboots. Often times it hangs at it the Dell Logo and reboots a few times before being able to get back into android. Sometimes it never even makes it back to android and I have to pull the battery.
I recently tried Farad's Ginger Streak, it was stable for a while but now has the exact same problem! (Yes I did the amss, dsp, gps flash)
I have run all of the Engineering tests in the Fastboot mode ( I was convinced it was the internal SD card for a while) but they all turn out fine.
Something interesting: Whenever I boot into fastboot mode it says TE Failed and something else in red then it looks like it tries again and finally gets to the "Wait for SD Detect" until finally booting to fastboot mode.
I am at end of my nerves at this point! I can only use my phone as a phone! Everything else crashes it! Please Help.
Thank You.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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adrian.galindo said:
So I upgraded my Dell Streak to StreakDroid some time ago and had been updating along the way as new versions came out. At around 1.9.0 my streak started crashing every which way. So I reverted back to the old version - no luck. Then I reflashed 1.9 still no go. My streak now crashes basically whenever I try do anything useful with it. Whenever I open Maps, Market, browse a page with any pictures, watch a video, or even think about using flash my streak freezes up and then capacitive buttons flash a few times and the Streak reboots. Often times it hangs at it the Dell Logo and reboots a few times before being able to get back into android. Sometimes it never even makes it back to android and I have to pull the battery.
I recently tried Farad's Ginger Streak, it was stable for a while but now has the exact same problem! (Yes I did the amss, dsp, gps flash)
I have run all of the Engineering tests in the Fastboot mode ( I was convinced it was the internal SD card for a while) but they all turn out fine.
Something interesting: Whenever I boot into fastboot mode it says TE Failed and something else in red then it looks like it tries again and finally gets to the "Wait for SD Detect" until finally booting to fastboot mode.
I am at end of my nerves at this point! I can only use my phone as a phone! Everything else crashes it! Please Help.
Thank You.
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Did you try the 2.3.3 Gingerbread ROM?
If nothing works then the internal SD card (2GB one) maybe faulty.
He mentioned testing the internal SD and that it reported no problems.
To the OP, has this occurred on stock ROMs as well?
I am currently running farad's 2.3.3 ginger rom.
As for the stock ROM I don't remember having the problem back in the day of stock 1.6 from dell but that was a looong time ago...
I was trying to go back to complete stock..but any instructions I find seem to be a bit shaky I tried just flashing the stock rom through streakmod recovery but it never booted(didn't really expect it to since I had to flash a new amss and dsp to get 2.3.3). I was thinking about going QDL but that doesn't flash the 1.6 if I remember correctly. I kind've want to send it in for warranty but I need to get it back to stock for that.
Thanks for taking intrest and helping.
Install the current version of your carrier's ROM on the Streak and try that rather than going all the way back to 1.6. This will allow for the following:
1. The recovery image, the baseband, and the software are all the same version.
2. Eliminates hardware as the source of your difficulties.
If the Streak functions properly under the carrier firmware you install, then you can safely eliminate hardware as the source of your problem, which means the software is the culprit. In that case, install Fards' ROM again and test it. It is possible that your Streak had a bad flash when putting GingerStreak on it.
I believe the directions given on the Dell Streak Flashing Guide on the Wiki might be helpful.
Did he factory reset at any time inbetween all those flashes?
Flashing rom after rom wont fix anything if it's the data that's the issue, custom roms dont wipe data as a general rule (they can, it's simply not scripted to on install as it's usually not required for updating the same rom but to a new version).
I didn't even think to ask that of him. Putting a stock ROM on the device does wipe everything though, so wouldn't he be at the same end point that a factory reset would be at?
A stock update will, but reading his posts i'm unsure he actually managed to get any stock update to complete as he was likely doing it wrong
If I had a penny for every time I factory reset my phone....
I can't tell you how many times I factory reset my phone between rom flashes but it didn't help any. I tried both the factory reset from the "black and white" and from within StreakMod. I have cleared the Dalvik Cache and the batter stats and the entire cache partition. I have run fix permissions out the wazoo. And it never really helped any.
Anyway I just installed the latest stock AT&T Rom (unfortunately they are only at 2.2.2) as suggested by Strephon (thanks for the wiki link by the way that place is amazing! How is it I never ran across it in all my time with the streak...)
The phone seems ok...but so did all the other ROMs when I first installed them. Any ideas on how to "stress test" the device short of installing stuff from market and trying to do everything?
Thanks for all this help by the way you guys are being awesome.
Well nevermind...that didn't take long at all. It is giving me the same problems as before. It is freezing, flashing LEDs and rebooting a few times. It made it into android for a sec while it said "checking SD card for integrity" in the status bar then rebooted again and finally booted into android.
If you're having this problem even with a stock ROM, I believe you have a hardware related problem, and that it was simply coincidence that it happened shortly after upgrading to custom ROMs.
adrian.galindo said:
Well nevermind...that didn't take long at all. It is giving me the same problems as before. It is freezing, flashing LEDs and rebooting a few times. It made it into android for a sec while it said "checking SD card for integrity" in the status bar then rebooted again and finally booted into android.
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If its not under warranty, I would look on these forums for a disassembly guide and replace the internal sd card. I replaced mine with a 4 gig just for the heck of it.
Alright I guess I will I call Dell tomorrow and see if I can't get it fixed/replaced.
According to the warranty site I should still be under warranty.
I'll post back once I contact dell. Thanks for helping out so much!
Success
Called Dell and they next-dayed me a new streak. Runs just fine. I guess it was a hardware problem after all.
Now Last time I upgraded my streak from stock I had to go through a whole bunch of hoops (QDL, then some intermediate stock roms then streakmod and finally DJ_Steve)
Is this still the recommended path to 2.3.3 or has a better way come around since?
So...I welcome all the NOOB comments but in reality I'm hoping to learn from the wise ones in this field. I bought a Dell streak for learning purposes (own an MotoAtrix) so that I can really get behind the weels of learning android the meant it was meant to be FREE so here's my problem so far with with the dell streak. Since it got updated to the ATT 2.2 build 353 it has been restarting on it's own any time after 4-6 mins of real usage. I can leave it on it's own charging or just on standby and no issues but it freezes and resets itself to then hang on the Dell Logo before the colorful Dell Logo. Now here's the steps I've tried to resolve. like i said I want to learn not a solution to my problems.
I tried first the simple get in and reset from the Settings screens. reset still issues.
Then I tried a hard reset and still issue.
3.) I tried uploading the "Update.pkg" and then it tells me Update.pkg.dec out of date error 7....resets back to 2.2
after 5 mins of usage resets on own and hangs on dell black and white logo.
keep in mind sometimes the hang is so big I have to do a battery pull for at least half hour to get it back (makes me think that there's something going on with flash memories sort of like bios on a main computer)
replace battery restart and back to 2.2 reset okay tried to root with superoneclick 1.7 and it gives me this as I tried to root...and keep in mind I've tried both way trying to get the password first and then doing the super rage root.
GET UNLOCKED CODE SCRIPT
SuperOneClick v1.7.0.0
Killing ADB Server...
OK
Starting ADB Server...
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
OK
Waiting for device...
OK
Preparing to copy nv_data.bin to sd...
OK
Copying nv_data.bin to sd...
/efs/nv_data.bin: No such file or directory
OK
Pulling nv_data.bin...
OK
Reading nv_data.bin...
Unlock Code: OK
then I went ahead and tried to root.....and got this message...
so no luck still having issues reseting..so I went on to the next step...MULTIFLASHER RECOVERY TOOL v.08 wich by the way is super sweet for someone to come up with this....but I do this still (SR #11) option and still once it resets it hangs in the Dell black and white logo screen. I guess another half to an hour battery pull. Hopefully I've given enough info or detail for someone to guide me in the right direction. as the next step from this is getting more android devices to root and modify to learn the process better before I start hopefully someday writing my own rom. Thanks Everyone!
Read this post all the way through:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1292859
Basically, flash the recovery for a stock rom, i.e. 354
upgrade from update.pkg
See if this fixes your issue.
Going to try this as it has been sitting on standby with out a battery for about an hour now so hopefully it will start no probs will post results from there. Thank You Much will reply once I have results in the AM
UPdate...
SO I tried your suggestion and I'm stuck at the point of adding the Drivers manually, (which may be the reason why flash and the rooting didn't work to begin with since it's not recognizing the device in the port that is connecting to. I've tried all 4 ports on this toshiba but guessing that I'm running a 64 OS also may be the reason for the issues. but I've tried adding the Qualcom HS USB Diagnostic device 9002 and I get the following error.
Driver is not intended for this platform and for some reason it always wants to assign driver for Qualcomm Diagnostic device 1937, if you know the manf of your device please contact ... yeah right like DELL will know how to fix this issue. So once I hit close it just gives it a Com14 or Com# depending on what port is plugged in.
64-bit OS has nothing to do with it, since I can successfully run Fastboot commands on my 64-bit Windows 7 laptop without issues.
I believe your best approach is to intall Dell's sync software from Dell.com if you haven't already done so. That has the proper drivers for the Streak as well as creating the registry entries for the drivers. Once installed you actually can uninstall the sync software if you wish and the drivers will remain.
After that, do NOT run SuperOneClick or ANY one click rooting solutions. The recommended procedure is to copy Superuser.zip to the external SD, then flash Streakmod Recovery. Complete instructions and the Superuser.zip file can be downloaded here. Too many issues have been caused by one-click solutions, while the Superuser.zip/Streakmod Recovery method works flawlessly.
reinstalling the sync method...
I had already installed the sync software from dell and it was not connecting before I tried all the other methods I even tried reinstalling and have the program try to self fix install errors. So I'm going to uninstall completely and then reinstall see if that works. off tomorrow so i'm going to be burning the midnight oil to get this fixed am i crazy to think this is fun...? or is it the nerdiness in me that finds the challenge of restoring a hanging on a dell logo unstable 2.2 on a dell streak fun?
If I read correctly on the link that you posted, in order for me to do the streakmod recovery, I must have the streak rooted, now here's a problem with that since the computer hasn't been able to install the drivers I haven't been able to root the streak, and it keeps reflashing itself at boot to stock recovery so I don't get custom recovery boot. I will keep trying and post any updates or resolved issues in the hope that this can also help anyone out there. Thanks for all the imput I appreciate it!
Chamo4u2 said:
If I read correctly on the link that you posted, in order for me to do the streakmod recovery, I must have the streak rooted, now here's a problem with that since the computer hasn't been able to install the drivers I haven't been able to root the streak, and it keeps reflashing itself at boot to stock recovery so I don't get custom recovery boot. I will keep trying and post any updates or resolved issues in the hope that this can also help anyone out there. Thanks for all the imput I appreciate it!
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Rooting and custom recovery are two separate things. You need a custom recovery to root using superuser.zip. You said it keeps rewriting the recovery when you reboot. I take it you have been able to flash recovery on it? If so, flash StreakMod again and instead of rebooting, pull the battery when finished. Put the battery back in and hold the volume keys (both) while powering on the device. Choose option 2 and you'll boot into streakmod. From there you should be able to flash superuser.zip and/or a custom rom. Note: Nearly all, if not all, custom roms are prerooted.
If you have flashed a custom recovery, what makes you think you have driver problems?
well...I tried the Multirecovery tool to try to get the Streakmod recovery on but when I tried to retry to load the streakmod.zip I couldn't get the other files on the sd but only the option to load from .pkg so I was under the assumption since I couldn't get the custom flash tool to read the zip i wanted to load that it didn't work. but here I go again. another thing I'm trying to start fresh I just formatted the sd card and I'm going to start fresh. will update once I try the next step. Going to load the right files onto sd then streakmod with multirecovery tool and then try to boot into streadroid by pulling the battery out and not letting it self reboot.
Under the advanced option in streakmod is an option to mount your sd card. Choose it and your sd card will appear in windows explorer.
You do not have to have root to flash and use StreakMod - you do have to flash it and then either reboot using the fastboot command and go right into recovery mode or do a battery pull and restart.
some reading:
Using StreakMod
Prevent overwriting of custom recovery
So...update...I tried to multirecovery tool option 11 Streakmod recovery in fastboot mode it kept giving me this message cant upload/admin user/... then it would proceed to succesful... so thinking that it successceded so I figure lets try this one more time load from sd update.pkg
message given was...
Assert failed: !less_than_int(1297160324. getprop("ro.build.date.utc"))
E:Error in /sdcard/update.pkg.dec
(Status 7)
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E:can't open: recovery/log
it restarted gave me the good ol white and black dell then the multicolor flash and then hanged on the white dell logo for 10 mins before i decided to pull the battery and see what now.
UPDATE: i did a battery pull for 20 mins restarted and it finally booted into froyo 2.2 (att rom) hmmm...? now to finally root to a more stable and better rom let the rooting and modding begin! hopefully this wont be an issue still wondering why it said error on this and status 7 anyone?
here's the problem with doing that. Something is putting such a drain on the phone that by the tim i have to boot if I don't give it a good five to ten mins to reset when I do reset it hangs on the dell screen or when I try to boot into a flash recovery mode it only gives me the stock recovery screen....? confused at this point where to go from this point. but if I have to brick I have to brick and rebuild again here's the current numbes.
android version 2.2
baseband version GAUSB 135331-US
Kernel 2.6.32.9 perf
OEM version GAUSB 135331
Build 15697
without touching it or using any features that would use the GPS it hasn't reset for over an hour 1:45 time on to streak mod preferably something more stable than the ATT Rom
I tip my hat to you. I am happy to see someone wanting to genuinely learn how to mod their streak without being spoon fed every answer. I have been getting sick of seeing all the incompetencies on the Streak forums. Thank you for brightening my evening with your desire to learn.
Good luck in your Streaking endeavours.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
Only way to learn is to actually do something...you can't learn to fly if you don't jump, but I'm pretty sure that when people slam into the ground I'm sure they had more imput on how to stay in the air longer or eventually to not slam back into the ground...Question if I change the rom that I put in the sd card and relabel it as update.pkg with the stock recovery will that give us bad results aka as BRICKING the phone my question really is the rom more like the OS on a pc system and the recovery more like a bios?? reason why I'm asking is this streak is so unstable at times that I have to do battery pulls for hours before I can get a full restart. So I wanted to load a rom in there and restore from update.pkg but start with a rom that doesn't use as much system such as 1.6 to see if the reset comes from having a 2.2 that from what I've read ATT never tested enough to send out. to see if I could actually use it or if it's hardware causing all the restarts (guessing a bad internal sim) from what I've read. And thank you to everyone's imput that has made me learn a ton about this device. hopefully someday I can use it as my main device but working in a market where I'm required to have a working cell for straight 9 hours means I'm pushed to the awesome atrix wich I have to say it's a tough lil phone. Again thank you and to streaking I go!
so the Streak has gone streaking...
Apparently is not what we were doing wrong but we really had a bad streak The cpu was overheating anytime it had real heavy load on it and it will shutdown and reset over and over and over as it kept restarting everytime it needed to cool down so DELL AMAZINGLY HAS STEPPED UP and sent me a replacement device! since the STREAK is no longer being replaced they are sending me a Venue HEY I could complaint but the fact that it was out of warranty and they are doing everything in power to replace the unit wich should arrive soon is the only reason why I'm not continuing on working on the streak but!!! streak and Venue look like they are carrying the same software so ON TO A MORE RELIABLE PHONE AND MORE LEARNING THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE AND THEIR IMPUT! I can't wait till I have a flashed Rom at work and people say WAIT MY ANDROID DOESN'T DO THAT! SO ON TO LEARNING OTHER THINGS BY READING! ANY GOOD GUIDES TO READ OVER ALL PLEASE PLACE YOUR " YOU SHOULD READ THIS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORLD OF ANDROID DEVELOPING"
Edit: This was done on a Venue 8 7840.
As mentioned, I ran the OTA like an idiot forgetting I was still rooted and of course, bootloop. I am stuck on the Intel Inside screen, with the developer flash tool it will show the device is connected but it comes and goes so I am not sure what I can do, if anything, to revert to stock or do anything. Does anybody have any suggestions or am I SOL? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :crying:
Try using the Phone Flash Tool utility provided in the developer edition files, and follow the process used to flash the developer edition firmware, but instead flash this unbrick.zip:
https://mega.co.nz/#!Vgw1CTYT!y1_tSTCMmzrhJSQy0lxwY59iyRhdJovC-IDMF25PB4k
Let me know how that goes for you.
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For the flashing process, try with the tablet completely off and disconnected, then load the unbrick.zip file in Phone Flash Tool, then click the "Start to flash" button (the one near the bottom should be blue/clickable), then once it starts counting (attempt #0, attempt #1, etc.) then plug in the USB to the tablet. It should then flash the firmware pieces.
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Try using the Phone Flash Tool utility provided in the developer edition files, and follow the process used to flash the developer edition firmware, but instead flash this unbrick.zip:
https://mega.co.nz/#!Vgw1CTYT!y1_tSTCMmzrhJSQy0lxwY59iyRhdJovC-IDMF25PB4k
Let me know how that goes for you.
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For the flashing process, try with the tablet completely off and disconnected, then load the unbrick.zip file in Phone Flash Tool, then click the "Start to flash" button (the one near the bottom should be blue/clickable), then once it starts counting (attempt #0, attempt #1, etc.) then plug in the USB to the tablet. It should then flash the firmware pieces.
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Thank you very much for the reply! I'm going to give it a shot now will report back shortly
First off, thank you for the reply, I flashed the unbrick.zip and it flashed successfully. Now the device is just showing a USB symbol with a filled progress bar under it and does not do anything else, still not able to get into bootloader or anything. Any ideas?
xBIGREDDx said:
Try using the Phone Flash Tool utility provided in the developer edition files, and follow the process used to flash the developer edition firmware, but instead flash this unbrick.zip:
https://mega.co.nz/#!Vgw1CTYT!y1_tSTCMmzrhJSQy0lxwY59iyRhdJovC-IDMF25PB4k
Let me know how that goes for you.
EDIT:
For the flashing process, try with the tablet completely off and disconnected, then load the unbrick.zip file in Phone Flash Tool, then click the "Start to flash" button (the one near the bottom should be blue/clickable), then once it starts counting (attempt #0, attempt #1, etc.) then plug in the USB to the tablet. It should then flash the firmware pieces.
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I thought I'd move over to this thread to keep it all together.
If I let the tablet boot normally, I get the following output: http://pastebin.com/zfsPRdC5 and the flash fails.
If I boot the tablet with power + volup, the flash is successful and I get http://pastebin.com/kQg8vwLC but I'm still on the USB screen.
If I flash the Dell Opensource IFWI + DNX (booted with power+volup) from the opensource package, it goes back to bootlooping with the intel logo.
Quick update, I don't have any further things to try at the moment, but I see that for past tablets Dell has released droidboot OS image which lets you recover a bricked device, so I've emailed support to see if they'll release it for this one. I'll post back once I hear something.
xBIGREDDx said:
Quick update, I don't have any further things to try at the moment, but I see that for past tablets Dell has released droidboot OS image which lets you recover a bricked device, so I've emailed support to see if they'll release it for this one. I'll post back once I hear something.
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Thank you for all your help, I am not very familiar with Dell tablet devices so getting started was fine, rooted and all. Thank I had to go and flash the update without removing SuperSU like an idiot, LOL. Usually on any device I do this just in case, even if it *says* it's not necessary. Anyways, I look forward to hearing what they have to say, I figured I was stuck with a dead tablet, which I suppose could still be the case. Of course, still getting the USB logo when I try power. Thanks again @xBIGREDDx you're the man. :silly:
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Quick update, I don't have any further things to try at the moment, but I see that for past tablets Dell has released droidboot OS image which lets you recover a bricked device, so I've emailed support to see if they'll release it for this one. I'll post back once I hear something.
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Any word back from Dell support? Or is it looking like this is a lost cause and I should just trash this thing I tried to get a hold of them myself but it is damn near impossible.
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Any word back from Dell support? Or is it looking like this is a lost cause and I should just trash this thing I tried to get a hold of them myself but it is damn near impossible.
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Nothing yet; I'd give them another week or two... they do take quite a while sometimes with these things.
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Nothing yet; I'd give them another week or two... they do take quite a while sometimes with these things.
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If all else fails just request and RMA and send it in for a replacement. I've always had great support from them on their business side. We usually get their accidental damage coverage on our work machines that replaces them for any reason. I have my 7840 through our work account and I have also rooted it but I have no doubt that I could send it back to them for a replacement if I brick it.
any new infos?
Hy ,
Are there any new infos about this problem?
I have the same problem with stuck at the usb logo.
No fastboot, no adb. I flashed many ifwi, dnx combinations but i get black screen or usb logo.
If you could repair your device, i would like no know please.
thx
i don't think my experience helps but i will post it anyway. When i turned on my tablet on today, it somehow started the upgrading process by itself when i try to open the play store. I thought i would brick the device since i rooted my tablet already, but i somehow made it. I lost root, but i was able to keep my data intact.
UPDATE:
Dell has posted a "blankphone" zip on their open source site. This will re-format your device and it does not contain a system image, but it should re-configure your partitions and flash a functioning fastboot image. There has been one report of this somehow fully fixing a system (I suspect the OTA was still sitting in a cache somewhere). Also based on the filenames in the zip, I think this might contain unlocked firmware. Either way, if we can get a system.img into a flashable state, you should be good to go.
Also they finally renamed the folder to "Moorefield" instead of "Merrifield"
"IntelAndroid-FBRL-07-24-2015" will cure the bootloop?
i flashed xposed to my 7840 lollipop and bootlooping.
i flashed it with "IntelAndroid-FBRL-07-24-2015".
u can find this in other device forum.
so, i flashed uninstaller of xposed, then 7840 is escaped from bootloop.
btw can anyone flash the appropriate xposed for 7840 lollipop with this tool?
hope 5.1.1 custom rom can be flashed...
Did Dell ever respond or has anyone else found a solution? I was ready to buy a 7840 but the apparent lack of support from Dell and minimal third party development has me seriously considering an Nvidia Shield, despite its inferior display and design. They're the same price and appear to be pretty evenly matched in all respects except 3D performance.
Any input that would help me with that decision would be appreciated.