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Been having a lot of trouble flashing new roms. Curently running tazz froyo v1.0. Have been able to root, flash many different types of roms (2.1, froyo etc)
But lately been wanting to try out Nonsensikal v4.6 but for some reason cannot get it to load. It'll either get stuck onthe white screen or if it does make it past the boot freezes during the boot animation and will remain stuck for a long time. Have let it go for 30-40 minutes. Batt pull, both wipes reflash and same thing.
So it has to be corrupted downloads. Tried on different computers, same results. Reformatted my card (was already no partitions, fat32 for froyo).
I would like to figure this out as i really want to try nonsensikal ( ran v 3.4 and loved it)
Any ideas? Battery is always fully charged when flashing. Sd card is good.
Maybe it's a computer issue?
Appreciate any responses.
Thannks
Stephen,
Thanks for the input. No setcpu for me anymore. Its only phone but never activated. I can flash other roms. It's just certain ones won't finish booting.
I'll have to verify the md5s and focus on the corrupted download issue.
Thanks again.
ppbb = Jp50 ?
I would try wiping and flashing the ROM, and then booting it for the first time without your SD card being present. (Note this is not the same thing as attempting to boot a ROM without an SD card, where it has already been through several failed bootloops and battery pulls).
It is not possible to flash a corrupted ROM - unless the definition of "corrupted" is that the dev screwed the pooch.
If you reply back, let me know if you have ADB and the USB drivers working on your PC (and if you are familiar with using the command line).
bftb0
You did wipe. My mistake.
bftb0 said:
ppbb = Jp50 ?
I would try wiping and flashing the ROM, and then booting it for the first time without your SD card being present. (Note this is not the same thing as attempting to boot a ROM without an SD card, where it has already been through several failed bootloops and battery pulls).
It is not possible to flash a corrupted ROM - unless the definition of "corrupted" is that the dev screwed the pooch.
If you reply back, let me know if you have ADB and the USB drivers working on your PC (and if you are familiar with using the command line).
bftb0
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yes that is me. I do have adb and usb drivers. I can get around and do some very basic stuff thru command prompt sdk. Would love to get this up and running.
Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing from you.
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yes that is me. I do have adb and usb drivers. I can get around and do some very basic stuff thru command prompt sdk. Would love to get this up and running.
Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Let me know if you have tried booting it without the SD card in the phone (the first time you try booting it). If you already said you did that and I missed it, then my apologies.
Some dev ROMs (not all of them) have "USB debugging" enabled in their boot scripts (some don't), so you can sometimes detect what the problem is using logcat. Maybe you do the "wipe-flash-boot without SD card" experiment and at the same time do this:
- Turn phone off
- Plug it in to the PC and bring up a command window
- in the PC, enter the command
Code:
adb wait-for-device logcat > logcat_boot.txt
The command prompt will not return - it will just sit there, waiting for the phone to start up. So, then:
- boot the phone.
Let the phone sit, even if you think it is going in to a boot loop. The "adb" command will also just sit there until you interrupt it. Wait for 10 minutes if necessary.
Hit Ctrl-C in the PC Command window. You should see the command prompt return.
If the phone booted successfully, then you can just delete the "logcat_boot.txt" file.
If the "logcat_boot.txt" file is zero length, that means that the dev did not enable the "adbd" service on bootup, so this particular technique is of no value.
If the phone went into a bootloop and you have a big "logcat_boot.txt" file, I will probably suggest you post it up to a pastebin somewhere (e.g. http://pastebin.com/ ) so we can look at it.
bftb0
ran the logcat test and it returned nothing. phone still won't boot nonsensikal. just freezes on the white screen. battery pull, reboot now its in boot loop city.
i think i've wasted enough time on this rom. I'm running cyanogen Tazz v2.0 and I was able to flash it over v 1.0 with no issues (other than the camera).
I guess nonsensikal rom doesn't like my phone. the dev was a lot of help, but i think the issue is my phone is just ****ed. I can't overclock anything over 604 without it freezing.
Time to move on and get back to having a real life and not obsessing over a phones interface. tazz's rom is more than good enough and I just have to move on. The amount of time I wasted on this is just silly. This phone took over my life and I have to lick my wounds and admit defeat.
thanks for all your help everyone. not all phones are created equal.
Hi, I'm trying to help a fellow Atrix user after he formatted and partitioned the internal flash memory using Tenfar's CMW Recovery.
He has lost touch on the bottom part of his screen; about a 1/2" of screen space doesn't work.
Tenfar posted that he had done this too, and had resolved this by reformatting with the Stock Recovery. Another user asked in that same thread how he accomplished that, but no answer has been given yet.
This user cannot get the Recovery Menu to show up because of the lower touch screen not working.
Can the steps be run blindly without the Recovery Menu showing up?
Or, can someone help me on how to have him format the internal memory via ADB?
I've had him try the following ADB commands from both the /!\ Recovery Screen and after enabling Early USB Enumeration without luck.
Code:
adb shell
$ su
# format DATA:
Comes back with format: not found.
Can anyone help? I've seen a few others with this issue but have yet to see a full solution posted for those that aren't ADB experts.
I have this problem too! Tenfar was kind enough to try helping me but apparently I'm a retard and unfortunately can't follow his instructions. I've been spending an entire week reading hours each day and I'm embarrassed that I still can't fix it, despite him sending me almost a dozen PM's trying to do so. Very grateful but sad that I'm so dumb.
He's told me to do this:
$adb shell
$su
#busybox umount /sdcard (hit enter key)
#newfs_msdos -F 32 -S 512 -L MB860 -c 64 -u 16 /dev/block/mmcblk0p18 (hit enter key)
I'm not sure where to do this. I now think I do this while the device is in Early USB Numeration but I haven't tried it yet. The wife was getting really pissed because I spent the entire weekend trying to fix this and have been investing too much time on the computer. She's... having mad PMS so I'm leaving it for a few days lol
I tried earlier when the phone was booted up but after some research, believe it may need to be done in Early USB Numeration mode but there's only about a minute before it automatically reboots. I haven't tried this and hope that my assumption is correct. I know about 3 other people who are currently experiencing this challenge and I hope that it corrects it.
The wife is working a double shift today so I'll try after work. Can't blame her for getting upset with me. Soft bricked a few other phones but fixed them with relative ease. This has been by far the toughest. It was my birthday last week and I spent most of my day on the computer trying to fix my Atrix lol
After this, no more formatting internal SD partitions!!! Paypal is giving me grief but I plan on giving Tenfar a modest donation. He's been very supportive of my dumb ass lol
In this forum there is a very good guide on how to use adb. Can't remember where exactly it's at I just did a general search for How to use adb it may help you.
Edit I think this is the link androidsamurai.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12
coldfusionb said:
In this forum there is a very good guide on how to use adb. Can't remember where exactly it's at I just did a general search for How to use adb it may help you.
Edit I think this is the link androidsamurai.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12
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Thank you!
I managed to install Ubuntu and I really like that.. tried from there too and it wasn't working. So I think it's definitely a problem with my dumb ass. If and when I get it working (I'm determined!...... and sort of stuck lol) then I'll post a guide.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck!!! Still not working!!
Yeah.. i ended up wiping with stock recovery and still a no go. Still no lower half of the screen or buttons. Sucks big time
Once ADB can be run in the recovery menu I think it should be fine.
Tenfar said he's fixed this problem but I'm no sure where he's run these commands. I feel bad after sending him a ton of PMs so I'm just waiting until he updates his Recovery app.
You could try restoring your sbf in rsd
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You could try restoring your sbf in rsd
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That's been mentioned and tried multiple times.
I have a simple script written with the command lines from Tenfar, but I am getting his input via PM to make sure it's correct and when exactly to run it. Hopefully he'll be able to direct me on how to get it done. Unfortunately, even if he says it looks right it's going to be completely untested. :-/
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I have a simple script written with the command lines from Tenfar, but I am getting his input via PM to make sure it's correct and when exactly to run it. Hopefully he'll be able to direct me on how to get it done. Unfortunately, even if he says it looks right it's going to be completely untested. :-/
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There's still a glimmer of hope, buddy. Once we get ADB access in Recovery I think all should be well.. unless partitioning this block somehow corrupts and kills the digitizer or something.
I actually couldn't wait any longer. Ported to Bell and got a new Atrix so if things go bad I'll have an easier time swapping. When I fix this AT&T one I'll sell it to pay off my cancellation fee with Rogers. Or, if I end up sending it to Motorola I can go back with my buyer's remorse period and go back to Rogers.
Hope you've got a backup phone or something to use in the meanwhile, man. This issue drove me INSANE!!
Hope is good, but this isn't necessarily for me. That's why I can't test it; this didn't happen to my phone. I have just been trying to help those who this did happen to. I'm also sure it will continue to happen if the CWM port for our phones isn't preset to format correctly.
Glad you were able to get a working phone again, but too bad a phone had to go back under these conditions.
Well, I'll keep trying to figure it out; waiting on another reply from Tenfar. Our schedules don't mesh too well, so if there's anyone else that might have experience in formating via ADB any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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I have the same problem, I just wanna know if anyone found a solution to fix that?
Also, I live in Belgium (Europe), I bought the atrix in usa a month ago during my honey moon. Motorola Europe doesn't support yet the atrix, I don't know what to do!
The phone is not usable anymore, like someone said: "clicking on the soft button area registers as a click on the bottom of the screen". So, the back button don't work anymore (you have to reboot when your stuck in a menu!)
hi guys i'm currently with a reflashed stock 1.83 rom, i can use android recovery (there the bottom screen portion works) and i can run wipe data/cache.
but no matter how many times i tried when the phone finally boots up it starts with motoblur setup and i cannot pass it, all the buttons work like the bottom of the visible screen and i cannot raise up the keyboard to turn the setup off...
i read in the sbf thread that would be possible to flash or not some particular areas, so if the problems is the wrong partitioning of the /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
maybe some of them could create a sbf replacement toreflash only that partition
other side i was talking with bongd and he says he had problem with the psd.bin file that is in the mmcblk0p03...
so what is the current status of this? adb seems not to work even in early enumeration usb mode...
what if we execute the script using the update.zip function?
i can access my sdcard from windows in storage mode
if we put the script in one signed update.zip into the sd the phone should be able to execute itself?
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hi guys i'm currently with a reflashed stock 1.83 rom, i can use android recovery (there the bottom screen portion works) and i can run wipe data/cache.
but no matter how many times i tried when the phone finally boots up it starts with motoblur setup and i cannot pass it, all the buttons work like the bottom of the visible screen and i cannot raise up the keyboard to turn the setup off...
i read in the sbf thread that would be possible to flash or not some particular areas, so if the problems is the wrong partitioning of the /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
maybe some of them could create a sbf replacement toreflash only that partition
other side i was talking with bongd and he says he had problem with the psd.bin file that is in the mmcblk0p03...
so what is the current status of this? adb seems not to work even in early enumeration usb mode...
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Tenfar told me it was mmcblk0p18 but it's actually mmcblk0p03 which needs to be corrected.
There's no ADB in recovery right now. Tenfar's apparently got it working but hasn't released it yet.
I also guarantee you can bypass the Motoblur setup as well. Hit these keys:
?123
ALT
ABC
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?123
ALT
ABC
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I'm positive because I've literally flashed every SBF and I've spent a lot of time troubleshooting this issue.
really i cannot open the keyboard while i'm in the blursetup screen, i keep pressing the menu button but it highlights only the emergency call and after many seconds it chance to emergency call screen...
At this time, your phone is 'bricked' since we can't get ADB access.
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we don't have adb access but i tried and we can use the update function in the stock recovery...i tried to put a update.zip of my old milestone and the process worked till the sign verification that failed.
in the milestone that update.zip is used to run the updaterscript that launches the openrecovery by skrilax_cz, that works like the recovery of tenfar
i guess that if we have a correct update.zip for atrix and we put in it the script we need, it should be run.
unfortunately i don't have the knowledge to build the correct script and don't have access to a signed update.zip for atrix.
if we only could gain some interest of the devs i think our problem could be solved in short time...
edit: i sent 2 pm to tenfar but did not reply, maybe someone has more luck...
I have yet to find an answer to this while searching for the past day, so I'm going to ask about it here.
My LG Optimus V's (just got it a few days ago as a birthday present) screen seems to be permanently blank... In case someone asks... yes, it is activated.
What Happened:
I rooted the phone using Gingerbreak 1.2, installed rom manager/clockwork recovery mod, then attempted to backup my phone in case something went wrong. However, when I started the backup, I noticed that the screen was completely blank. I was kinda freaking out, so I just took a shower while it did it's thing. When I came back, it was done creating the backup and it showed up in Rom Manager. After toying with some of the things I can do with it rooted (I only rooted it to see how much of a difference it would make without changing the kernel), I decided to recover that backup. When my phone restarted to recover the backup, the screen was blank once again. After waiting for over an hour, I concluded that it must have finished (since my HTC Hero would finish restoring and never reboot until I tell it to) and took out the battery. Afterwards, it would show the LG splash screen... then the blank screen.
What I Did:
I was thinking about the android screencast java application a few hours after my problem first developed. I plugged my phone into my computer, got adb working, and android screencast showed me that my phone was actually getting stuck at the clockwork recovery mod screen. I tried many things... I installed a CM7 rom, flashed 3 different recoveries, flashed an overclocked stock rom, etc. Eventually, I flashed the stock rom (no changes whatsoever) and stock recovery. Now I can hear my phone, but cannot see it. However, I should note that while using CM7 the same thing happened. The only difference being that I could use android screencast to see the screen (the phone was actually working) with CM7. Now with the stock rom, adb is disabled and I cannot see the screen or do... anything.
What I Think I Should Do:
I'm thinking about calling Virgin Mobile and telling them that my screen is defected. If they see the issue they'll probably think that it's a hardware issue (for all I know, it could be) and they'll probably give me a replacement. However, if anyone as had the same problem and fixed it, I would love to know.
I would love you hear your opinion on this and, if possible, a fix. Thanks in advance!
(JIC, if I posed in the wrong section, I'm sorry...)
you poor souls reporting the symptoms of getting the newer screen hardware from the optimus s in your v's don't number in the double digits yet, but it's getting closer.
I posted a fix on AndroidCentral, see it:
here
good luck! the fix has worked for everyone I pointed to it so far.
btw, the screencast idea is excellent!
crud. stock recovery, you may be SOL.
you'll probably have to boot into custom recovery to use screencast or adb now.
use the unplug phone -> pull&replace battery -> hold home+volume down -> keep holding, press and hold power until lg screen goes blank to enter recovery. maybe adb will work in stock recovery, I dunno.
Thank you very much for the reply!
Yeah, you're right, I'm probably SOL... I still have one option though! Theoretically, I should be able to turn on ADB without being able to see my screen. I know how to access the settings without seeing it, but navigating myself to the "Applications", "Development", "USB Debugging" may be a little hard. I will attempt to do so. I will report my progress in a bit.
However, if you (or somebody else) could provide screenshots of a step-by-step process to turn on USB Debugging in the stock rom (since it's kinda hard to do remember where everything is and screenshots of different phones is kinda different) then I would appreciate it VERY much!
I shall update this in an hour or so.
UPDATE (9/2/11 - 9 PM):
I'm going to take a break for now. Good thing I give everyone my Google Voice number, I doubt anyone will notice a change. I'm going to flash a stock rom onto my HTC Hero so I can figure out where things are on the LG Optimus V (Same screen size) in an hour or so. I'll update my progress in like 2 hours.
UPDATE (9/3/11 - 8:10 AM):
I have been unable to turn on USB Debugging and it seems to be because I don't know where the confirmation after turning it on is located. However, I should note that when I boot into (I think) recovery, "adb devices" states that the device is attached but offline. If there is a way to make it "online" from stock recovery then I would love to know. For now, I will try everything I can.
UPDATE (9/3/11 - 8:22 AM):
Ok. I plugged my phone into the back of my computer and now when I do "adb devices" it detects the device in recovery mode. However, when I try "adb shell" it says "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory <2> -". I'll try some more stuff, but does anyone have any idea of what I can do? Android Screencast doesn't work either, so that's not an option.
UPDATE (9/3/11 - 9:42 AM):
Crap... now it's indefinatly booting into recovery... I had something like this happen before, I'll report my status in an hour or so...
UPDATE (9/3/11 - 12:36 PM):
My friend finally got my phone booting out of recovery again! Now all I have to do is get "USB Debugging" on and it SHOULD work!
I <think> there's a key combination to power up into the bootloader. if you can find it with searching here and android central.
I haven't been able to track that down today. If you can get into the bootloader, you can fix it. Search for asadullah's fastboot root instructions here if you find a way to get into the blue screen (the bootloader, which fastboot talks to.)
otherwise, I'll be done taking the kids to the (ugh) pool in a few hours and I'll search more.
try pulling your battery for a few minutes and see if the reboot cyle stops that way, at least it might get into recovery or the rom.
glad you got back into recovery again, not too sure how to help at this stage though, since I can't find a way to get into the bootloader with a power-on key combo. just emergency mode (useless to the V since the firmware from LG is missing a file) and safe mode. boo.
there is a youtube video for enabling usb debugging on the v, maybe it'll help you find the right spots to press.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHal0hPNS6s
edit: you can also try to reboot into the bootloader with adb, even though it's missing the shell... it's worth a try, and if it works you can flash xionia recovery with fastboot and things would be a lot easier from that point.
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
if that works but you need more help, a battery pull is the only way to power off with the bootloader except "fastboot reboot" will try to boot your rom.
Awesome, thanks for the replies! I'm going to try your suggestions now. I'll let you know how things work out in a few hours. I would have replied earlier, but to my satisfaction there was a surprise party planned for me, lol. I will defiantly try these out now.
Once again, thank you very much. I honestly did not expect a reply for something that happens to such few people.
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I <think> there's a key combination to power up into the bootloader. if you can find it with searching here and android central.
I haven't been able to track that down today. If you can get into the bootloader, you can fix it. Search for asadullah's fastboot root instructions here if you find a way to get into the blue screen (the bootloader, which fastboot talks to.)
otherwise, I'll be done taking the kids to the (ugh) pool in a few hours and I'll search more.
try pulling your battery for a few minutes and see if the reboot cyle stops that way, at least it might get into recovery or the rom.
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I'm honestly not sure what my friend did, lol. She was just messing with it while it was, apparently, in recovery and it ended up rebooting and loading the rom. I, honestly, don't want to risk getting stuck in recovery anymore since taking out the battery for an hour didn't do anything... If I'm unable to get adb on using what I know from that video then I'll try booting into the bootloader. Like I said before, I'll report my status in a few hours. I really appreciate your help up to now!
EXTREMELY HAPPY UPDATE!!! (9/4/11 - 1:22 AM)
I was able to turn on ADB! I used what I learned from that video and how turning on ADB works on my HTC Hero to get it working and it's FINALLY ON! Now I can attempt to flash the recovery, kernel, and everything else in order to get it working! Thank you VERY much! I will let you know how everything turn out
Another Wonderful Update! (9/4/11 - 2:03 AM)
I have flashed the recovery.img (the Xionia CWMA one) and can see my screen in recovery! I haven't seen anything on my screen besides the LG splash screen so I'm overwhelmed with joy! I'm flashing a new ROM and the other stuff now!
Final Update! (9/4/11 - 2:09 AM)
2:05 AM - I see the rom's boot screen!
2:06 AM - I see the CM7 Mod boot screen!
2:08 AM - I see the UI on my screen and everything seems to be working! Thank you VERY much!
Quick question though... If I want to install a new ROM, do I need to flash the xionia anykernel one directly afterwards?
ah, excellent! glad it's working now.
you're the most persistent (and maybe technically apt) person I've helped with this so far.
I still think that using screencast was the best new idea I've seen yet.
yes, you'll need to flash the xionia kernel after flashing any rom or rom update.
roms come with their own kernel in the boot.img, and none of them currently out for the v have the video drivers from the newer sprint kernels.
right now, xionia kernel is the only thing that works.
and, you'll need to flash the key swap after changing roms, as well, but at least forgetting to do that won't take out your display.
now that you've got xionia recovery on your phone, it should be a lot easier next time.
Thank you for both the help and the compliment!
I don't like giving up when it's something I know I can do. I figured that if I was able to mount my SD card without being able to see the screen, I should be able to turn on USB Debugging as well. About the Android Screencast... I didn't actually think about it until it until I plugged in my phone while the screen was blank, ran "adb devices", and saw that my device was detected within recovery. I figured that I might as well give it a shot... and it worked.
Alright, that's what I figured. Hopefully someone realizes what's happening with refurbished Optimus V smartphones and ports the newer sprint kernels to the Optimus V. I feel like I got ripped-off though... I bought my phone "new" and got a refurbished one. I can't really do anything though, we're not technically supposed to be rooting our Virgin Mobile phones anyways, lol. I'll be sure to do that everytime now though. For now, I think I'm good with the Bumblebee rom.
Once again, thank you VERY much for your help! I know I would not have been able to fix my phone without your help.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, btw, if the Optimus V ever gets stuck in stock recovery, press the "back" button then "home" button to boot into the rom. Not sure why it works (I was never able to see the screen), but it worked.
There is a key combo!
First time caller long time listener... I bricked my own Optmus V with a bogus ROM. To boot into recovery without adb press (Home)+(Volume Down)+(Power) Now rocking CM7!
when i open into recovery and go into twmp and i go to reboot>recovery it says no os installed. my recovery is completely gone. what do?
Ok so I was searching, a lot, and found that I can turn the phone back to OEM. unfortunately every guide I have read says it needs to be s-off using firewater. When i do the "adb reboot" function it gets stuck at the htc boot screen and I cannot perform the second step in making the phone s-off. what do I do? Is my phone legitimately bricked? Like hard bricked forever?
I also ran the RUU. It goes through and when it gets to step 1 of 7 it stops and says "unknown error occurred" I go through the error recovery steps and it still does not work. Just trying to keep all the info here so you understand the situation I'm in. It also boots into recovery mode, obviously, with the power button and volume down button.
got it. could go ahead and delete post.
Don't have the thread deleted, but instead explain how you finally solved the problem so others may learn from your experiences...
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tttomdemaria said:
Ok so I was searching, a lot, and found that I can turn the phone back to OEM. unfortunately every guide I have read says it needs to be s-off using firewater. When i do the "adb reboot" function it gets stuck at the htc boot screen and I cannot perform the second step in making the phone s-off. what do I do? Is my phone legitimately bricked? Like hard bricked forever?
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I know you've already sorted it out. But first, this phone is not bricked if the screen comes on. Recovering is usually not hard at all, just a matter of knowing how to do it.
Second, were you referring to a warranty claim for a phone being not bootable due to mods that you did? That isn't covered under warranty, and is immoral. Take responsibility for your actions; and don't jump the gun and think you have to get a new phone after just a couple hours of unsuccessful attempts to get the phone running. If you want to root and mod these devices, you are going to have to learn to be patient and work through little quirks like this.
Lastly, the phone needs to be bootable to perform firewater s-off.
Thanks. yea my only two friends that do this kind of **** are like seriously the most pessimistic, negative assholes I have seriously ever met in my life. They kinda just scared me into thinking it was easy to brick a phone and totally mess it up. After some research i just found all I had to do was run an RUU and make sure the phone was relocked.
seriously. they are real negative nancies.
Ok for those of you who may ever be in the situation I was in I will write up how i fixed it. very simple and took probably about 20 minutes start of download of tools to finish. This was done on windows 7 but i'm sure it is pretty similar on windows 8 as well.
In order to do this you will need to know that holding the power button AND the volume up button simultaneously emulate a battery pull and that holding the power button AND the volume down button enter recovery mode. If you are stuck in a boot screen or splash screen like I was you will need to emulate a battery pull and them immediately switch to enter recovery without actually removing your finger from the power button.
Then you need to make sure you have the right tools. you can find them at these locations.
RUU- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2757462
ADB- http://www.mediafire.com/download/5s2nfws9wkj9gyq/adb-fastboot.zip
Now you need to make sure your phone is either "***LOCKED*** or ***RELOCKED*** when you enter the recovery mode.
You can do this very easily. Plug your phone into your computer and enter recovery mode. Make sure the phone is in Fastboot USB mode and not Hboot. Open the folder titled "Android" in the adb kit you downloaded from the link above. Shift + right click anywhere on that folder(not on a file) and choose "Open command window here" type in the command window "fastboot oem lock". It will show as "relocked" after you do this and it reboots. This will allow you to run the RUU without any issues. Always make sure the phone is in "Fastboot USB" mode.
Now run the RUU executable and it will automatically pick up your phone assuming all of your drivers are in order. Just hit yes to everything and it will run through what it needs to. If you do not have a progress bar on your phone's screen as well as your computer then you messed up somewhere. start over.
If you try to do this on the At&T htc one (m8) without actually relocking it first the RUU will fail at step 1 of 7.
Good luck.
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Thanks. yea my only two friends that do this kind of **** are like seriously the most pessimistic, negative assholes I have seriously ever met in my life. They kinda just scared me into thinking it was easy to brick a phone and totally mess it up. After some research i just found all I had to do was run an RUU and make sure the phone was relocked.
seriously. they are real negative nancies.
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Then stay away from those guys! Sounds like they don't really know that much, wrong attitude, and you are probably already on your way to knowing what they know, if not more.
This phone is pretty hard to brick. As long as you aren't flashing hboot or radio, and don't flash anything intended for another device, its pretty difficult to brick this phone by modding it. The condition you were in was not a brick, and not even close. Some call this a "soft brick" but in my opinion, there is no such thing, its either bricked (requires opening the phone to recovery, such as JTAG or replacing motherboard) or its not. What I call it is "something is wrong with the phone and you just need to do the right steps to get running again".
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Ok for those of you who may ever be in the situation I was in I will write up how i fixed it. very simple and took probably about 20 minutes start of download of tools to finish.
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Glad you sorted it out, so nice job.
Although RUU was probably a little overkill. RUU is a useful recovery tool, although a bit of a nuclear option. But good last resort. Since you RUU'ed, you will need to unlock the bootloader again, and flash custom recovery to get back to where you were originally (phone setup for mods) if that is the intention. If the intent was to go back to stock and stay there, RUU is a great way to do that.
You probably could have just gotten back up and running by using adb to wipe cache, re-install custom recovery and flash a ROM.
Hello all!
First of all, I am no developer.
Long story short.. I purchased an HTC 10 because I was sick and tired of my at&t galaxy s5 being bootlocked. I received the 10 and set out the next day to root it. I followed a video on youtube (not saying that the info was not correct...I may have done something wrong...not trying to discredit anybody) to the letter and lo and behold I ended up in a bootloop. My heart probably came close to a complete blockage at this point. This bootloop lasted maybe a minute before it would reboot. So... In my infinite wisdom I chose to relock the bootloader. Oh Boy!!! Fun times were ahead for me!! As soon as I relocked said bootloader, the bootloop increased its timing to about 1 point 5 seconds. I remember waking up on the floor in the fetal position. Now I am stuck with a phone that adb will not recognize. It does however recognize the device at the fastboot devices prompt. So my question is this.... Is this a salvageable phone? If so, How would one go about fixing this problem?
*** Relocked ***
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I would prefer that the money I spent on this thing would amount to something more than a small ant bed.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Also I have been doing a lot of digging around and (I may be wrong) but. I could not find this scenario in the forums here. I apologize if this has already been covered.
...So..after looking around for a bit more, I discovered out that there is a way to flash a ruu/zip from an sd card. I have tried multiple times with what I thought were the right ones. As I am unable to boot into recovery, I feel I am limited as to what I should do. I have read about that I should wipe dalvik but I am very limited in my knowledge on an android system and would prefer to not mess this phone up anymore than it already is. I was trying to root and I used TWRP as the recovery but I never made it to the end before it started the loop. The Phone is an htc 10 unlocked version. and it just constantly reboots about 3 seconds apart. ADB says no device connected, so I cannot execute commands that way... really at a loss here. all the tutorials I have read refer to using and and being able to boot into rrecovery. when i boot into recovery, I get an immediate reboot and the 3 second bootloop forever. Is there a way to use twrp to somehow resolve this?Is there a tool that will help me at least get into recovery mode?
SOLVED... Ran across Batchtool by sneakyghost. Quite the bunch of tools there! Ended up solving my problem by placing the stock RUU in the root folder as the batch tool. Before I could not install from a factory RUU (would not recognize the phone through ADB or install the RUU. After the install of the batch tool I was able to get a clean install back to my factory settings.. Now I am free to mess it up again!!
BIG THANKS TO SNEAKYGHOST!!!!!
I'm unsure why the batch tool has worked for you and the sdcard method didn't - getting fastboot to work and all the bits and pieces together (drivers, Windows VCRedist, correct fastboot, correct adb) is usually more error prone than just identifying the correct zip and placing that in your sdcard root.
At this time, I'm a bit in a "scratch my head" mood, thinking this is weird. Same zip? Really the same zip didn't work from sdcard but would work in fastboot? I think I haven't come across that myself yet (non booting phones are a daily thing, almost).
I wish I had the time to analyze your steps with you, so I could gain understanding as to why that happened, so I can use that in the future, but alas! I have no time for XDA and deep digging around in issues of other people. Lately I can't even solve my own phone's problems anymore due to too many other things going on.
Well, glad it worked for your phone, anyhow. I'll keep this in mind for the next one messing up his/her phone.