well my usb broke last night im at 20% battery and want to take it in to sprint i found the unroot method but it involves using command to get it to s-on and i cant without usb
any other way
think i could just restore my stock sense back up on 20% battery(without dieing) and flash a new splash img and hope for the best because it its a hardware porblem
Download adb wireless. Its all done wirelessly so you wont need a usb to do your commands.
Temari x Shikamaru
is 20% battery enough to do this commands
Yup. It only takes about 2 mins to do s-on.
Temari x Shikamaru
ya i see the s-on is a quick thing but running the pc86img update to flash the stock software looks like its going to take awhile
and im iffy if its gonna die in between
wait so how can i run abd wireless if you need root and the process is to run the pc86img, then use fastboot to set s on
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wait so how can i run abd wireless if you need root and the process is to run the pc86img, then use fastboot to set s on
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Oh snap. Guess you cant. If your returning for a replacement, run the pc86img.zip and you should be good. If you see superuser app just uninstall it through titanium backup.
Temari x Shikamaru
Ok. Well, since it isn't related to root, it really shouln't be an issue as far as them fixing the USB. I would maybe even call in to the repair center or the local sprint store and explain the problem to see what they say. You dont have to give them your info if you dont want to obviously. Just tell them the situation and see what they have to say. Chances are, if your store is cool like mine, they are rooted too and really wont care.
Now, if you really want to be safe, you can always get a cheap external battery charger, charge the battery, then you will have a full battery to S On, then take in for replacement.
The above guy has the solution. You don't need S-On since they will most likely (99.99% chance) they will not check for it.
Just buy an external battery charger, charge battery, flash stock rom/nandroid. Remove superuser from /system/app/ and take it in. When they fix the USB port, you can download the superuser app and you're done!
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Every time i try to flash something to unstick my butt from HBOOT it says and i quote:
*** Security Warning ***
MECHA XD SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.95.0000
MICROP-/
RADIO- 1.02.00.0103_2r
eMMC-boot
Dec 16 2010,22:29:58
HBOOT
SD CHECKING ...
Loading...[PG05MIG.zip]
Battery voltage is too low!
Please change a battery...
[Power] -> continue
I swear it says please change a battery. I got stuck in hboot when i tryed to unroot from DasBamf 2.0 GingerBread. I flashed the downgradepgi05mg found in the unrevoked 3 click root method folder and now i cant flash anything because it wont charge the battery. Should i buy a more powerful usb charger like the one for the iPad or should i just keep asking for suggestings? Im guessing it wont charge since it can barely keep up with the screen being on full brightness
Try charging with the phone off for a couple hours. BUT, if you have that security warning you have bigger problems. I don't know how to explain to you how to fix it for sure but don't freak out. I would let it charge turned off for at least a couple hours and then jump on andirc chat in the #thunderbolt room and look for someone to walk you through it. I believe it happens when you try to flash a signed RUU that is older than the version you are currently running. Like I said tho I don't know the steps exactly to fix that but i THINK you can. Link to andirc thunderbolt chat is in the sticky root thread.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
mine used to do that, id just keep trying to restart the phone til it powered up. make sure the img file is not on the sdcard
JBO1018 said:
Try charging with the phone off for a couple hours. BUT, if you have that security warning you have bigger problems. I don't know how to explain to you how to fix it for sure but don't freak out. I would let it charge turned off for at least a couple hours and then jump on andirc chat in the #thunderbolt room and look for someone to walk you through it. I believe it happens when you try to flash a signed RUU that is older than the version you are currently running. Like I said tho I don't know the steps exactly to fix that but i THINK you can. Link to andirc thunderbolt chat is in the sticky root thread.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
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thats exactly wut i did, you know the old ruu thing, it said main version is older and i started freakin out, i almost had a scaregasm! i found a newer ruu and i cant flash it thanks to this problem.it wont charge because the second i try to charge it, it turns on automatically, it would normally take me the clockworkmod recovery but it takes me to the hboot crap, i just want to solve the charging problem, no suggestions on how to unstick my bottom from hboot please.
Find someone with a tbolt, use their phone to charge your battery or buy a dock with spare battery charger.
Yeah, you will need an external means of charging the battery. This thread ->
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1008824
Explains the security warning and how to fix it in some cases, BUT it depends on what RUU you flashed. What version number was the RUU that caused all of this?
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
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Find someone with a tbolt, use their phone to charge your battery or buy a dock with spare battery charger.
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yer a genious, but i know no one with a tbolt and *GASP* ....... i will just buy an extra battery, they usually have about half charge and its not like i didnt need one in the first place, hopefully i can fix my phone. do you know how bad it is with all the annoying sprint evo commercials and the iphone comercials and the tablet commercials, and no calling? didnt tghink so
You are having tbolt withdraws. Step back, deep breath. It'll be ok. Go to Verizon, I'm sure they'd even let you do it there...the commercials mean nothing to me because I know Sprint and ATT are full of ****.
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I swear it says please change a battery. I got stuck in hboot when i tryed to unroot from DasBamf 2.0 GingerBread. I flashed the downgradepgi05mg found in the unrevoked 3 click root method folder and now i cant flash anything because it wont charge the battery. Should i buy a more powerful usb charger like the one for the iPad or should i just keep asking for suggestings? Im guessing it wont charge since it can barely keep up with the screen being on full brightness
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uhmmmm pretty sure unrevoked hasn't released anything for the thunderbolt yet.
So I would assume your flashing the wrong file. Or didn't follow the unroot guide in XDA dev.
Hey,
I didn't feel like going through the trouble of buying the Motorola factory charger or whatever you need to charge the phone when it said *battery low* *cannot program* when trying to use the RSD program (might have spelled it wrong) to restore to factory settings. My battery must have been low and in the middle of the restore, it stopped and now Im unable to get to either recovery or charge it.
I had insurance luckily so I just got my galaxy nexus back and should be to me tomorrow. Do yall think someone will buy this phone like that? i have 2 nandroid backups on there so it's probably not safe to sale with that stuff accessible.. smh.. that's why i liked the samsung galaxy s and galaxy s 2 devices because you can use Odin which makes the phones virtually unbrickable. The phone's in PERFECT condition. Would be nice if there was a way around that man
how much? just curiosity...
That's why its always recommened to have full charge when rooting or installing custom rom. I hope someone here in the forum can help you solve this issue.
you can make one looks like here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
if you want to give it a go, will cost you a $3 cable if you mess it up, and will gain you a $300 phone if you do it right.
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how much? just curiosity...
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I realized i can't sale it because I have nandroid backups within the phone and they'll still be there i think...
romdroid. said:
That's why its always recommened to have full charge when rooting or installing custom rom. I hope someone here in the forum can help you solve this issue.
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Yeah but you know when you're a frequent flasher and are sure it only takes about 10 percent batter at the most, you don't charge it to the max but I just made a boo boo by not reading the part that said *You must be running a the rom already before flashing the update portion*.. that caused the bootloop..
Thanks a lot though. You're right
Shinare said:
you can make one looks like here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
if you want to give it a go, will cost you a $3 cable if you mess it up, and will gain you a $300 phone if you do it right.
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imma try to get these tools.. i definitely have some spare USB cables in my room.. just getting the phone open and stuff is the issue. Not that tech savy lol
You don't need to open your phone
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA
Get phone in to ap fastboot and go down to bp tools and then press vol+.
Phone should reboot in to a sort of recovered state (last firmware that was on phone) and allow you to charge up.
Once 100% retry flashing.
I screwed my phone several times already and thought I wouldnt recover. Through some chat help have always recovered. Same for my Charge after a few times you figure out all the tricks.
You can recover it. I've done it twice
If you check out my post it shows you a alternative and easier way charge your phone again and make it back to stock rom and no root. Then you can sell your phone for a better price or just keep it!
Ill give you $150 for it...
Ill trade you a Samsung Charge for it. Seriously though you should be able to recover.
passion8059 said:
Get phone in to ap fastboot and go down to bp tools and then press vol+.
Phone should reboot in to a sort of recovered state (last firmware that was on phone) and allow you to charge up.
Once 100% retry flashing.
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It takes me to this message every time. anyone else got this before? see attached
Yup I had that before. Happened to me when rsding to an earlier version and the battery went low before it finished. Gonna have to use a factory cable or replace it.
Sent from my XT912
orcsbane13 said:
Yup I had that before. Happened to me when rsding to an earlier version and the battery went low before it finished. Gonna have to use a factory cable or replace it.
Sent from my XT912
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what if the whit light is showing after plugging it up to a computer with a different USB?
hmmm i wonder if it's charging???? see attached
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what if the whit light is showing after plugging it up to a computer with a different USB?
hmmm i wonder if it's charging???? see attached
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nope, left mine like that for 12 hrs and it never charged any. Won't charge unless you can get into recovery and can't get into recovery because webtop is messed up.
Sent from my XT912
I get that on mine when I let it die completely (after cocking up flashing!) ... what I do is connect it to pc...get solid white light..... press up/down/power.....boots to the other screen (cant remember what its called).....gives the option for normal boot......press up to get into normal moto boot logo..... VERY QUICKLY replug to a desktop charger.... Seems to work for me! I really must try reflashing with a clean rom!
There are several ways to recover from bricked because of dead low battery. Im sure there are easier but Im just gonna post a few.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
More expensive way for a cable but may want to have for future.
http://shop.teamblackhat.info/
More info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14832871&postcount=45
Thats all Im going to post for now but I have faith that it can be recovered. Dont sell unless desperate and dont want to deal with it. Send it to me and Ill try to recover and if not I can give you one of my Droid charges while I get it back up.
I'm trying to brick my device so i can downgrade to 1.40. Everything is fine up until the point where i have to pull the battery out and run off AC power without battery. When i pull out the battery the phone stays on like it is supposed to, but when i press volume + button to start update the phone immediately turns off.
I relocked my device and am running this stock rom. If anyone can offer some advice it would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Are you using the actual HTC charger that came with the phone? I've read here on XDA that the stock HTC charger puts out a little more power than normal chargers. Also, you can't use USB via your PC.
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Are you using the actual HTC charger that came with the phone? I've read here on XDA that the stock HTC charger puts out a little more power than normal chargers. Also, you can't use USB via your PC.
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Yep, using the one that came with the phone and i'm plugged into the wall. I even tried a couple different outlets. Do i need to have a certain rom installed?
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Yep, using the one that came with the phone and i'm plugged into the wall. I even tried a couple different outlets. Do i need to have a certain rom installed?
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That shouldn't matter since we're dealing with just the bootloader. I'm not sure which guide you're using (if there's even more than one now) but here is the link I followed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547695
Make sure you boot recovery, remove back cover, plug in phone then pull battery when it says.
Yesss this sh*t is impossible.! I actually got pissed off cuz I COULDNT brick the damn phone lol
Sent from my PG86100 using XDA
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Yesss this sh*t is impossible.! I actually got pissed off cuz I COULDNT brick the damn phone lol
Sent from my PG86100 using XDA
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I know right! Never thought I'd be mad cause i couldn't brick my phone. Next time someone says they're scared about rooting cause they dont wanna break their phone, I'll tell them they couldn't do it if they tried.
I think I'm going to go back to HTC unlock. The only reason I decided to downgrade my phone in the first place was because i wanted to flash Newtoroot's rls3 and was not able to get it running without losing service. At this point I think I can get that rom to work on 1.50 before i can get this SOB to brick, much less get through the rest of this damn process. If not, I'll just go back to rls1, cause i had that version running perfectly (bugs listed in OP excluded).
Good luck to anyone who's trying to do this...may you have better luck than I did lol.
Sincerely,
J
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That shouldn't matter since we're dealing with just the bootloader. I'm not sure which guide you're using (if there's even more than one now) but here is the link I followed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1547695
Make sure you boot recovery, remove back cover, plug in phone then pull battery when it says.
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I had this problem where my phone would turn off as well..I was using a stock htc charger that came with the E3d. What I did was hold my charger steady because if I moved it too much the charge would leave. No I didnt have a shortage in my charger but it just read like that in the laptop. Probably because being plugged into the laptop or cpu it doesnt feed off enough voltage. Hope this works for you.
I am new to this forum and can only post to this section (Assuming I get by this tough spam filter!)
I have the HTC EVO 4g LTE phone and am new to rooting an the like but I was able to root using RegawMOD EVO 4G LTE Rooter x64 (1.13. I) did this after 1 week using the phone stock. For 4 weeks I was very happy with the performance with an occasional hard reset. I created 2 Nandroid backups and downloaded the stock RUU believing I could load it should I need warranty service. I seem to see several posts with users having to perform hard resets. I plug my phone into my PC every night for charging rather than the supplied wall charger.
At 5 weeks old I was using an app that organizes apps and saw MIRROR. I knew what is was for but had never used it. When I did it showed my face and locked up. That was the end of my phone. From that point on any attempt to boot the boot loader or normal boot resulted in a boot loop or it would boot the the HTC screen and vibrate. That was it. I could not load Nandroid image or run RUU.
I had the Bestbuy warranty and was afraid they would not honer it because it was booted. They did honer it and I have a new phone which since loaded the new OTA update which as of yet does not have a root method. I also noticed MIRROR is gone!
So now it seems the common thread is the charger? My PC has USB 3.0 which is equivalent to a 1.0 amp charger. (USB 1.0=0.5a, USB 2.0=0.75a, USB 3.0 = 1.0a)
Is charging an issue? I don't want to brick another phone. I really don't beleive that is the cause as I am at stock now and have woke up 2 mornings now having to do a hard rest to get my phone working.
I've left mine charging on all three types of usb overnight with no problems, on both completely stock and rooted, s-off and on custom rom so I doubt its a charging problem. I would guess either a hardware problem on your computer or phone, or you had bad luck and got two bad phones.
Since USB 3.0 is very new standard, I would look into whether or not HTC charging is even supported on USB 3.0 @ 1.0 amps. I have a Western Digital 3 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive, and incompatibility issues do exist.
Sent From My S-OFFed, R00ted, 100% Tricked-Out HTC Evo 4G LTE via XDA Premium!
Try doing an RUU on your computer - google it
Try lazypanda unbrick on a linux machine - google it
I "true bricked" my phone using a spliced usb cable that i wanted to make shorter. Although I can't definitively ever state that an undervolt or surge occurred most in these forums have indeed stated the charger as being finicky and have reported bricks based on the type of charger used. If your phone still turns on in some way whether it be bootloader or recovery or even bootlooping there IS some way for you as the user to do something technical to fix it on your end without outside help I think. My phone however was completely gone no response from buttons or lights whatsoever. People have told me I fried the battery so if anyone feels they have done this don't get rid of the phone just yet but invest in a battery and try replacing it. I posted my "dead" LTE to ebay for sale at $150 when I paid $400 thinking it was beyond repair. Someone snatched it up before I could get the info from users and take down the auction. I must say this is the worst hardware issue I have ever heard of on an HTC device which is a shame because visually the phone is stunning.
get familiar with adb. download android sdk to your computer and run cmd in the windows start menu. Type adb devices and if your phone is plugged into the computer it should find it. If it does try adb reboot bootloader or adb reboot recovery. If either of them work go into recovery and reflash your rom / nandroid. Welcome to the dark side of the force.
Soft Brick EVO 4G LTE
Bastafari said:
get familiar with adb. download android sdk to your computer and run cmd in the windows start menu. Type adb devices and if your phone is plugged into the computer it should find it. If it does try adb reboot bootloader or adb reboot recovery. If either of them work go into recovery and reflash your rom / nandroid. Welcome to the dark side of the force.
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ok so none of this has worked. I am stuck in a bootloop into bootloader
Tampered
Relocked
Security Warning
I was in the process of relocking my phone to update RUU to then S-Off. Everything when well allegedly with the relock. During the reboot by the system it stuck in a bootloader. I am not sure what I should do. Push and OTA firmware though or what....Any thoughts? I am also not sure how long my phone will stay charged, maybe I can power it down to charge?!!??!
Do not power down. What do you see when you type fastboot device? Captain throwback and om4 are really good at this troubleshooting. Hopefully one will see this soon.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
If you already ran the ruu, run it again. Sometimes the ruu stalls for whatever reason and needs to be run a second or even third time. Accepting the ota will not work unless you flash the stock recovery and have a rom close to stock
The good news is that you are not bricked if it boot loops. Brick is dead , no lights, no nothing just dead.
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
I'm in a bit of a bind. Tried searching for people with similar issues on the EVO LTE but couldn't fine one. It seems that my screen doesnt work anymore, but the touches still work; I.E. i can unlock the phone by muscle memory alone even though the screen remains black. I tested this as soon as i got home from work by plugging it into my monitor via MHL. MHL seems to work okay and it displays everything on the monitor but when i try to go to recovery to wipe everything, the phone doesn't seem to display anything via MHL (assuming because no drivers or whatnot are loaded in recovery)
This all began when my stereo bluetooth headset (LG HBS700) was low on battery and I turned it off. I soon went to check the battery level of my phone only to find out the screen wasn't turning on. Normally I give things the benefit of the doubt, so i assume it's just something that can be wiped away, so to speak. I hope so at least. Can anyone give me any insight as to if this is fixable or not?
Thanks in advance
U need to take it back and get a new one man. I'm thinking maybe a spike in voltage shorted the display out. Are u wanting to keep it for s-off possibilities?
U could use adb tools to flash back or run an RUU if S-ON. But I really don't think it will fix anything. I'm not a pro-technical apple genius or anything, thank god, but I'm fairly certain u have full blown hardware failure.
Anthonicia said:
U need to take it back and get a new one man. I'm thinking maybe a spike in voltage shorted the display out. Are u wanting to keep it for s-off possibilities?
U could use adb tools to flash back or run an RUU if S-ON. But I really don't think it will fix anything. I'm not a pro-technical apple genius or anything, thank god, but I'm fairly certain u have full blown hardware failure.
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Thanks, Yeah i think i'll do the RUU thing. didn't think something like a voltage issue could come up. I keep my devices cradled like a baby and have never had one go bad on me hardware-wise.
Thanks again
So what happened? U run RUU?
Anthonicia said:
So what happened? U run RUU?
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Yep, it turns out its the LED panel(or whatever lights up the screen) is busted. waiting on my replacement unfortunately The RUU did nothing. good thing i saved everything