All,
I inherited a seriously injured HTC surround, and I have decided to use it as a project phone.
Current status - Half Bricked on the bootloader + when it boots it immediately asks to be connected to restore backup. Unfortunately I have no zune backup and neither does the original owner of the device.
So I have read everything I could find on the half-brick issue and it seems that some folks are having success using the goldcard method to over write their boot loader with various HTC devices. I am will to try this but all the vids I have seen tutorials etc show that you have to put the device into enter usb host mode (blue writing on white screen)
Only problem is ....I have no idea how to do this on the Surround. I have tried every button combo on boot and cannot find it.
Someone here must know how to do this in return I will post my findings on whether or not the Goldcard trick works to repair a 1/2 brick surround.
Thanks
rob243 said:
All,
I inherited a seriously injured HTC surround, and I have decided to use it as a project phone.
Current status - Half Bricked on the bootloader + when it boots it immediately asks to be connected to restore backup. Unfortunately I have no zune backup and neither does the original owner of the device.
So I have read everything I could find on the half-brick issue and it seems that some folks are having success using the goldcard method to over write their boot loader with various HTC devices. I am will to try this but all the vids I have seen tutorials etc show that you have to put the device into enter usb host mode (blue writing on white screen)
Only problem is ....I have no idea how to do this on the Surround. I have tried every button combo on boot and cannot find it.
Someone here must know how to do this in return I will post my findings on whether or not the Goldcard trick works to repair a 1/2 brick surround.
Thanks
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Hi,
Power off the device
Press and HOLD both camera and volume down buttons
Press power on button and KEEP holding both battery and volume down buttons
After boot screen will follow the usb screen
Now release battery and volume down buttons
Regards, ansar
Ok I can only get to the tricolor screen showing the 1/2 brick spl. is the the usb host mode? Because I see on some videos on youtube a white screen with blue writing that says enter usb host mode. This is what I am trying to achieve.
Or if this is the USB host mode should I just attempt to do the flash via gold card and see if I can get rid of teh 1/2 brick?
USB Host mode
To enter USB host mode turn off the phone, then press and hold VOL down + camera buttons, then press power.
But the phone will not enter USB host mode if you only see one line en the tricolor screen (this state is half bricked). For the phone to be able to enter USB host mode, the tricolor screen must have more than 1 line but the only missing part must be Serial/USB at the bottom. Check well the videos on youtube, and you will notice before entering USB host mode that the tricolor screen have more than 1 line (someone call this state small half bricked).
My phone is also half bricked (one line in the tricolor screen), the only solution I have found is to do an HTC OEM update, either by waiting for HTC to release an update (that includes a bootloader) through zune or by forcing it (for this the phone needs to be developer unlocked).
P.S. ChevronWP7 is not selling more unlocking tokens at the moment, and the $99 AppHub membership is too expensive for me.
Thanks Guys
After reading your posts I tried it out on my good surround and sure enough was dumped directly into Enter USB Host Mode screen
So now I am sitting here wondering what can I do with this thing it will not boot to anything but the screen to connect to restore backup.
Could I give anyone here anything useful about the device? Maybe disect it and post pics? Maybe someone could find these jtag posts? Or keep it for spare parts? Seems like a waste to just chuck it
Maybe you can repair it
rob243 said:
After reading your posts I tried it out on my good surround and sure enough was dumped directly into Enter USB Host Mode screen
So now I am sitting here wondering what can I do with this thing it will not boot to anything but the screen to connect to restore backup.
Could I give anyone here anything useful about the device? Maybe disect it and post pics? Maybe someone could find these jtag posts? Or keep it for spare parts? Seems like a waste to just chuck it
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rob243, you can try to install a new firmware, depending if the firmware is a version inferior to 2250.21.40500.502. You can use a tool called Cab Sender (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1306415) to send firmware version mondrian_2250.21.40500.502.cab (search in xda-developers), for the enter the phone to recovery mode (just press and hold CAMERA, then power, ang then release the 2 buttons).
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i've Bricked (killed) my HTC mega, i just flash it with wrong file and after that it stuck on HTC logo so i just connected it with MTTY and used few commands and it doesn't power on , mean doesn't take power at all now , i used following commands.
1) i connected it with MTTY in Bootloader.
2) i open MTTY
3) i type info 8 (it shows me it have bad blocks)
4) i type task 2a (it says can't reapir Bad Blocks)
5) i type task 8 phone turned off and then no power at all.
i think there is a solution with JTAG to revive dead phone there was no problem at all with Phone before only need to change from Chinese to English language.
if there is any help kindly post it here.
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your device go in bootloader? If yes download original rom for your device, power on device with volume down pressed (three colored bars appears), connect with usb and flash original rom. For download correct rom search in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578915
or search your rom here:
http://htcpedia.com/soft/mega-touch2-rom.html
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Mega/
If you have issue executing this procedure please i try to help you
fabcal the phone doesnt even turn on as the thread owner mentioned ... so none of your methods will work for him ....
LtBlue said:
fabcal the phone doesnt even turn on as the thread owner mentioned ... so none of your methods will work for him ....
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it is true that he says that the phone will not turn on. But from my experience in the assistance of computers, the user loads the fact that the system is reported as "not turn on ". You have no idea how many times I went home carrying the replacement power supply because they said "not turn on", when they appeared "disk boot failure!" and the same thing I already happened with Italian users of smart phones. White screen at power on, boot loader ok but the owner stated that power on. I explained?
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So I was lucky enough to score a free tablet from a promotion. It is a generic no-name brand device made from a company called "Ultralight Android Edge". It is a 7-inch tablet with ics and is locked with a password as I found out when I came home and tried to turn it on. I have tried to put in atleast 500 different pins to get it to unlock. Then I tried to enter into recovery mode but no button combinations would put me into recovery. The device wont turn on if a volume button is pressed with it and when it does turn on without any volume button press, I cannot force it to enter recovery later on. Please note that the device only has a volume rocker and a power button. After many failed attempts, I decided to use adb to boot into recovery but since it is locked, I cannot enable usb debugging and adb does not recognize any device. Finally I tried to boot the device while a usb cable was plugged in and although windows recognized it, a micro second later it would disappear.
Somebody please help me remove this password. I don't know why it was locked when I got it. Also, there is nothing in the box that specifies a password so not much to do there as well.
Thanks
Contact whoever was behind the promotion you won it at.
They are closed for Sunday and I don't know if they will be back for Monday...
I have gone through other forum entries that were similar and did not see anything exactly the same. Came back to G3 after 6 months since I had the common issue of screen freeze/flicker and fading out. I did paper trick where folded paper goes over camera port on motherboard to get it at least temporarily functional. That did the trick as far as screen working for now.
My major problem began when I tried utilizing this technique I found in forum in hope of a more permanent solution:
I spent days of googling and there are only temporary solutions for this problem.
After testing my phone for 2 days in different conditions I realised that the screen is going crazy when the light is changing too much.
If you do a sensor calibration everything will go back to normal:
-enter in Hidden Menu (model dependent)
-select Device Test
-select MT
-OK to restart the device
-OK and do not touch the screen for few seconds
-go to Individual Items+Power (you must push power button when you select this item)
-select Sensor Test and take care to not block the proximity sensor when you make the selection
I got as far as MT in device test and phone restarted. However, it won't get past the first LG screen. It hangs there for a few seconds and the words "Boot Failure" appear. Is there anything I can do to get out of this boot loop. I tried hard reset with volume down and power and get same result. I also tried hooking into PC using volume up for download mode and get nowhere with that either. Is there anything else I can try to fix this problem?
I greatly appreciate any help anyone can provide. I did notice the last resort debrick method by R-T-B but it seems a little complicated for me and I was hoping there might be an easier solution.
When you tried to put the phone in download mode, did you use the original cable, and use it with a USB 2.0 port that comes directly off of your PC's motherboard, not USB 3.x and boy through a USB hub?
If so, what happened exactly?
Yes, I used original cable and made sure it was USB 2.0 port. I hold volume up button and plug other end of USB cable into phone and it goes right to the black screen with just LG logo and Life's Good. Directly under the logo in white font is Boot Failure. I can't seem to get past it. Phone will shut down by itself and automatically turn back on going to same boot failure page.
One thing I forgot to mention in original post. I had not used phone in a few months and forgot I had taken SD card out. So when I did the MT in device test SD card was not there. Also, phone is rooted. I had a Jasmine ROM 9.0 or 9.1 (35B). I have put back SD card into phone which I am not sure matters or not but get same result.
SD card shouldn't matter for anything.
What does it say in Windows' Device Manager in the ports section when you attempt to put it into Download mode? LGE... or QHSUSB_BULK 9008 mode?
It shows LGE Mobile USB Serial Port. When I enable show hidden devices it shows 2 LGE items under Ports. One has COM4 and the other COM41.
Also, USB 2.0 connection to PC is directly to port on back of PC. Not connected through hub or anything. Also, although I don't know if it matters but I had TWRP flashed as well.
Its frustrating that I can't get phone to do anything but reboot back to LG screen. I don't understand why just going into Hidden Menu got phone stuck in never ending boot loop. I could understand if I flashed something wrong but I didn't do anything like that. At this point I don't care about any files or anything on phone, just want to get it in working condition.
There are a lot of dangerous things in the hidden menu, that's why it's hidden.
If you continue to not be able to get it into Download mode, look at the thread in the General section for forcing it into QHSUSB BULK 9008 mode, and then there are different recovery instructions that still needs the 10B TOT.
Or @R-T-B might be able to fix it for you. I don't know what the deal is with two LGE devices showing, bit I've never taken any steps to show hidden devices.
Won't hurt to try flashing the 10B TOT even though there phone doesn't look like it's in Download mode. I don't know if the existing hidden port 41 LGE device would be sufficient or if you should change to port 5 one to 41. Normally you have to change the port 5 one, but both are worth a try.
Of course, it the phone constantly reboots too quickly to try flashing, then ignore that advice.
Sounds stupid I know but try anything like leaving the SIM card and Micro SD card out?
FYI apparently it seems normal that enabling hidden devices in Device Manager would show the Port 41 LGE entry. I flashed the 10B TOT to my wife's phone and after it booted and I enabled hidden devices, I could see the "new" valid entry on Port 5 and the old hidden entry on Port 41, so it's no matter, and if you choose to change the Port 5 one to Port 41, just proceed even though it warns you there's another device on that Port. A reboot of your PC might fix it too.
gary1025 said:
I have gone through other forum entries that were similar and did not see anything exactly the same. Came back to G3 after 6 months since I had the common issue of screen freeze/flicker and fading out. I did paper trick where folded paper goes over camera port on motherboard to get it at least temporarily functional. That did the trick as far as screen working for now.
My major problem began when I tried utilizing this technique I found in forum in hope of a more permanent solution:
I spent days of googling and there are only temporary solutions for this problem.
After testing my phone for 2 days in different conditions I realised that the screen is going crazy when the light is changing too much.
If you do a sensor calibration everything will go back to normal:
-enter in Hidden Menu (model dependent)
-select Device Test
-select MT
-OK to restart the device
-OK and do not touch the screen for few seconds
-go to Individual Items+Power (you must push power button when you select this item)
-select Sensor Test and take care to not block the proximity sensor when you make the selection
I got as far as MT in device test and phone restarted. However, it won't get past the first LG screen. It hangs there for a few seconds and the words "Boot Failure" appear. Is there anything I can do to get out of this boot loop. I tried hard reset with volume down and power and get same result. I also tried hooking into PC using volume up for download mode and get nowhere with that either. Is there anything else I can try to fix this problem?
I greatly appreciate any help anyone can provide. I did notice the last resort debrick method by R-T-B but it seems a little complicated for me and I was hoping there might be an easier solution.
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Did you ever get this sorted out? My g3 same thing. Hidden menu, device test, and then reboot but stuck at lg logo screen. I’m unable to bring up mini os for the hidden menu to escape the device test action. It just stays on with the lg logo on the screen.
Thanks for helping.
I have this I9100 smartphone, that I really liked once, but I bricked it. It is too long ago so I don't exactly know what happened.
I think I was using some tool to change the partitions or have done something similar .
I tried to use the search but it did not really help me, maybe I don't know what words to use, as english is not my native language.
this is what it does or does not:
power -> nothing
power and vol+-> nothing
power and vol--> nothing
so Recovery does not work, download mode does not do anything but show the following message(this happens only with usb cable) so I think it also does not work
"
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again."
when I try to use KIes and do a recovery it does not show the device.
But once I managed to get it connected to windows 7 and it was shown as Samsung usb composite device(Or something like that).
But it is a real pain as the usb port of the smartphone is not stable, so this annoying sound of connecting and disconnecting is heard everytime I touch it.
maybe I should use hotglue to fix this or bend the plug to get it stuck really tight.
I also tried download mode without battery and then put in the battery. it says battery is to low to do download or something like that. written in small red letters in the first line.
so is it possible to get it back or is it dead? I just want to know if I should try to fix the usb port and keep on trying and searching or forget about it..thank you very much, this is a great community and it helped me already a lot in the past
Hi,
This does sound like the symptoms of a broken usb port. You should fix it as it seems that there is a chance you may be able to revive the device (just from reading).
My general assumption however is that if you can't boot up using hardware buttons and using a usb jig doesn't help, you device is probably dead.
Saber.
You don't use Power+Volume keys for Download and Recovery mode.
But Power + Volume+ + Home for Recovery (and Volume- for Download mode).
Complete tutorial to reformat and install CM13 : https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-tutorial-samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-t3538601
So i was using RessurectionRemix (a version from last month) and recovery twrp 3.1.0-0 and the phone was working great!
Yesterday i left my phone charging over night and in the morning i wake up to my phone bootlooping!
So i tried different things including everything it says here https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/how-to/guide-hard-brick-fix-qualcomm-hs-usb-t3492949 without luck
I can get it into recovery and fastboot but as soon as i let the key combination go the phone stops and just shows a black screen (screen is on) and i cant get into qualcomm recovery to flash!
And the only way to shut off the phone is by holding power + vol up + vol down!
Any solution or suggestions?
Use flashone method to unbrick
md07 said:
Use flashone method to unbrick
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As i already mentioned i cant get into qualcomm recovery so i cant use flashone
try to flash fastboot rom from cucoco's.
Tsoler said:
As i already mentioned i cant get into qualcomm recovery so i cant use flashone
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connect phone to computer, try force shutdown phone by hard button, ater phone shutdown, immediately release power but keep both volume. Phone maybe will enter Qualcomm flash dead mode, and Flashone will regconize com phone (refresh nedded)
Hope you success ! And believe, if a phone can flash with Qfil or Flashone, almost that phone never die (software)
Are you able to connect to the phone via Vysor, either via Chrome browser or as a standalone app on Windows PC when you do not see anything on the phone screen? Please post if Vysor install goes thru successfully. Hope your developer options/USB debugging are on. I assume your phone boots but may have display issues either hw or sw.
md07 said:
connect phone to computer, try force shutdown phone by hard button, ater phone shutdown, immediately release power but keep both volume. Phone maybe will enter Qualcomm flash dead mode, and Flashone will regconize com phone (refresh nedded)
Hope you success ! And believe, if a phone can flash with Qfil or Flashone, almost that phone never die (software)
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Did what you said but nothing happens
kayyappan said:
Are you able to connect to the phone via Vysor, either via Chrome browser or as a standalone app on Windows PC when the you do not see anything on the phone screen? Please post if Vysor install goes thru successfully. Hope your developer options/USB debugging are on. I assume your phone boots but may have display issues either hw or sw.
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Phone gets recognized but not long enough to do anything (windows makes sound but doesn't install anything and doesn't show up in device manager)
try this guide
https://www.gizmochina.com/2016/11/20/leeco-x820-max-2-super-unbrick-guide/
You have mentioned that you are able to see the device in recovery and fastboot till you release the buttons - does this mean if the buttons are held say in fastboot mode you are able to see the device via "fastboot devices" or in recovery the twrp screen or nothing ever shows up at all? Are the buttons clicking properly? Check individually to make sure - particularly the power button. Does it vibrate at any point of time when you press and hold the power button? Are you able to see any backlight when you say the screen is on?
If there no backlight shine a torch or sunlight from the side of the screen to see anything at all on the screen.
Vysor reports apk not installed when it attempts to download from PC to phone but fails. With Vysor you will have two windows one showing status of phone - this is the main window. The other is the mirrored one - that of the phone when you click view on the main window. I forgot that the phone requires approval to install the apk. Please see the attached thumbnails. Keep touching the screen about 3 cms up from the bottom of the screen (not the phone) to see any change. Hope your touch works.
I know it is quite frustrating to try a number of things. I recently went thru the same on Galaxy S4 to make sure the phone but for the screen works OK prior to ordering the screen. Besides in my case developer options was disabled and touch also did not work. It took about a week of learning and trying to see something on Vysor. I never have used a Sam phone till that time this broken phone was handed over to me.
After a lot of trying i found out that when i keep pressed power + vol down or vol up while connected to pc and device is off it gets recognized as
qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 long as i keep the keys pressed so i tried the flashone method but it just says could not connect
Are Qualcomm drivers loaded on your computer? I have not used flashone. I used QPST to see if phone is connected. I am not sure if they are same.
kayyappan said:
You have mentioned that you are able to see the device in recovery and fastboot till you release the buttons - does this mean if the buttons are held say in fastboot mode you are able to see the device via "fastboot devices" or in recovery the twrp screen or nothing ever shows up at all? Are the buttons clicking properly? Check individually to make sure - particularly the power button. Does it vibrate at any point of time when you press and hold the power button? Are you able to see any backlight when you say the screen is on?
If there no backlight shine a torch or sunlight from the side of the screen to see anything at all on the screen.
Vysor reports apk not installed when it attempts to download from PC to phone but fails. With Vysor you will have two windows one showing status of phone - this is the main window. The other is the mirrored one - that of the phone when you click view on the main window. I forgot that the phone requires approval to install the apk. Please see the attached thumbnails. Keep touching the screen about 3 cms up from the bottom of the screen (not the phone) to see any change. Hope your touch works.
I know it is quite frustrating to try a number of things. I recently went thru the same on Galaxy S4 to make sure the phone but for the screen works OK prior to ordering the screen. Besides in my case developer options was disabled and touch also did not work. It took about a week of learning and trying to see something on Vysor. I never have used a Sam phone till that time this broken phone was handed over to me.
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It doesn't stay long enough in recovery or fastboot to do anything it shuts off after a few seconds even with the buttons pressed after that it just shows a black screen
Phone vibrates when i press power and shows leeco logo (not os logo) and after 1-2 seconds screen goes black and phone vibrates again and shows leeco logo again and just continues looping
if i try to press power + vol up normally it goes into recovery but as soon as recovery is loaded screen goes black (screen on just doesn't show anything) the same goes for fastboot if i press power + vol down it loads fastboot but after 1-2 seconds screen goes black
if i keep pressing keys the phone just stays longer in recovery/fastboot but only 4-5 seconds
I assume you have adb and fastboot. Since you say the screen remains on when booting to recovery open a command prompt at the directory where adb is and issue a command "adb devices" without quotes. Does it just exit without showing any device or throws up some error? Try this irrespective of the black screen.
Have you looked at and tried what is given by @HTC-TYTN2 at post #8? It is for Le Max 2 and you will find a link to Quallcomm drivers too. Do not bother that the link mentions X820 even your Max 2 is 821, 829, etc.
since it happened after charging, you might want to check your cable and battery. best is to get a cheap usb multimeter.
Gesendet von meinem LEX820 mit Tapatalk
I too thought it could be the battery based on that's the screen goes off. But he also mentioned that the screen remains on but nothing to be seen after a short while. Wanted to suggest slow speed charging probably via a laptop usb as I'm not sure if he used high speed charging resulting in battery issue.
Did you solve the problem?
My phone just died completely! No response at all anymore. I'm contacting the seller now to send the phone back.
Looks like it is a hardware defect! A pretty odd one but nothing i can do anymore. I send it back and post what the problem is as soon as get any information.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help!
Tsoler said:
My phone just died completely! No response at all anymore. I'm contacting the seller now to send the phone back.
Looks like it is a hardware defect! A pretty odd one but nothing i can do anymore. I send it back and post what the problem is as soon as get any information.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help!
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Try this:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=136823
download file, unzip, open folder, connect phone to USB via fastboot ( phone off phone + hold volume -) . Click to the flash app in your PC. The app should find the phone. Confirm TWRP problem -NO and start flash.
Drivers must be installed.
Drivers here.
https://uloz.to/!A6B4AmEVx87S/adbdriverinstaller-exe
I can, pass the cuoco rom by qfil? Another type of flash, because I can not access recovery and twrp ?, only by fastboot
RaphaBraga23 said:
I can, pass the cuoco rom by qfil? Another type of flash, because I can not access recovery and twrp , only by fastboot
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Try this via fastboot mode.:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=136823
download file, unzip, open folder, connect phone to USB via fastboot ( phone off phone + hold volume -) . Click to the flash app in your PC. The app should find the phone. Confirm TWRP problem -NO and start flash.
Drivers must be installed.
Drivers here.
https://uloz.to/!A6B4AmEVx87S/adbdriverinstaller-exe