Okay, so I purchased the htc rezound on ebay, the guy has a very high seller rating. Anyway, he FAILED to mention that the phone was "rooted/flashed" or what ever. My problem is that I want ORIGINAL FACTORY rom that would be on the phone from Verizon. I see links about how to get other roms, but what if I want to get back the original? As soon as turned the phone on, it went to the bootloader screen. I figured how to just boot into the regular boot up, then during the boot up you see the htc logo, then the an animation that says "clean rom". How do I switch from that back to the regular verizon factory? (Sorry for the long message).
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Okay, so I purchased the htc rezound on ebay, the guy has a very high seller rating. Anyway, he FAILED to mention that the phone was "rooted/flashed" or what ever. My problem is that I want ORIGINAL FACTORY rom that would be on the phone from Verizon. I see links about how to get other roms, but what if I want to get back the original? As soon as turned the phone on, it went to the bootloader screen. I figured how to just boot into the regular boot up, then during the boot up you see the htc logo, then the an animation that says "clean rom". How do I switch from that back to the regular verizon factory? (Sorry for the long message).
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do a search for the stock RUU and flash that from hboot, i think you will have to relock hboot though first. problem is your bootloader will now say "relocked" so i think the seller screwed you over if you wanted a virgin phone.
Check what version hboot is and post it here and we can help you from there
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1425091
that thread may be of use too.
mighty_markus12 said:
do a search for the stock RUU and flash that from hboot, i think you will have to relock hboot though first. problem is your bootloader will now say "relocked" so i think the seller screwed you over if you wanted a virgin phone.
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I don't really care if it's a "non virgin" phone, I can live with that, I just as long as I can A stock rom with the original factory verizon apps. I mean seriously, this rom doesn't even have the MUSIC PLAYER!!!! lol
refuse2bstopped said:
I don't really care if it's a "non virgin" phone, I can live with that, I just as long as I can A stock rom with the original factory verizon apps. I mean seriously, this rom doesn't even have the MUSIC PLAYER!!!! lol
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yup you just relock the bootloader and flash the stock RUU. that link i posted should help you out. i may be wrong but i think you can even run the ice cream ruu and stay stock.
mighty_markus12 said:
yup you just relock the bootloader and flash the stock RUU. that link i posted should help you out. i may be wrong but i think you can even run the ice cream ruu and stay stock.
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Okay, now how do I get to the "hboot" screen or what ever? I'm totally lost, but I'm sure I can get this done because years ago I use to flash WM roms almost every other day. lol
refuse2bstopped said:
Okay, now how do I get to the "hboot" screen or what ever? I'm totally lost, but I'm sure I can get this done because years ago I use to flash WM roms almost every other day. lol
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did you relock the device? to get to hboot power the device off and press power+volume down.
mighty_markus12 said:
did you relock the device? to get to hboot power the device off and press power+volume down.
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I try that but it keeps on doing nothing, then when I finally let go of the buttons it just boots up the phone
Soooo.....
Does the fact that holding "power + volume down" and it just stays at the off screen until I finally let go and then just boots up into it's regular boot up mean I'll have to somehow "re-root" the phone? (if that makes any sense)
Honestly the Rezound is much better without the stock rom.
Sent from my ICS'd Rezound
refuse2bstopped said:
Does the fact that holding "power + volume down" and it just stays at the off screen until I finally let go and then just boots up into it's regular boot up mean I'll have to somehow "re-root" the phone? (if that makes any sense)
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Nope...pull the battery, put it back in, then hold power and volume down. Hold them until it boots into hboot. It sometimes takes 15 seconds for mine. From there you can check if you need to relock.
uToTMeH8 said:
Nope...pull the battery, put it back in, then hold power and volume down. Hold them until it boots into hboot. It sometimes takes 15 seconds for mine. From there you can check if you need to relock.
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Okay that worked, at the top it says ****tampered with**** then under it says ****relocked**** and it says HBOOT-2.21.0000
Well I've been able to get into that boot loader screen, but the thing is, how do I get one of the stock roms installed at that point? Where can I find one that will ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD?!!! I'm using a MAC btw, so I can't use any methods that require a windows based computer
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Well I've been able to get into that boot loader screen, but the thing is, how do I get one of the stock roms installed at that point? Where can I find one that will ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD?!!! I'm using a MAC btw, so I can't use any methods that require a windows based computer
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You are on leaked ics so find the ics ruu and run that and you should be good
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Someone installed the latest leak with the new hboot on it, you can't return to a stock GB rom without adding an SD Card fix.
And what's an "sd card fix"? Does that mean I have to reformat the card or something, or is it just something I have to boot from the sd card rather than it being initiated from the computer?
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Someone installed the latest leak with the new hboot on it, you can't return to a stock GB rom without adding an SD Card fix.
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Do you mean actually reformat my sd card, or is there just something I can put on it and then get to it in boot loader mode?
werdna87 said:
You are on leaked ics so find the ics ruu and run that and you should be good
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The thing is how do I "RUN" it? What's the process? I've downloaded here on here but I don't know what to do next, other than how to get into boot loader mode. However, it says "relocked" at the top and again, I'm not sure where to run the ruu from. I know I can't do it from the computer because it's a MAC and so far all instructions have seemingly been PC based.
A leaked ICS is a .exe file that runs on Windows, I doubt it'll work on a MAC.
With limited knowledge on how to flash a ROM, your best option is to find a friend that has a PC, download the RUU executable file, boot your phone to the boot loader, and then run the file you downloaded.
Remember that those are leaked images so not being official means there is no support, so it seems you need to run the .exe RUU, which means you'll need to find a PC.
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I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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Get one of the old GB RUU's and run it on your phone. Start again. If your phone was truly bricked, it wouldn't power on and you wouldn't get an LED light when it was plugged in.
lithium630 said:
I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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This is an easy one, or would have been when you were on the black screen. Well the internal storage fix scares me, but hopefully that wont matter. Typically all you need to do is get the PH file from your rom and place on sd card, boot into hboot, and run the update I believe, then reboot.
This title needs to be edited as it's misleading.
lithium630 said:
I managed to get s-off, but my phone would not boot. I was stuck on a screen that said "JuopunutBear" with an arrow. I did the internal storage fix, now the phone is really screwed. I'm stuck on a white screen with "HTC". I can't boot to recovery and the PC won't recognize phone so ADB commands don't work. Any help would be appreciated.
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Relax. The S-off process blows out your recovery. You didn't brick your phone.
Put a recovery image on your SD card, go into hboot (from a powered down state, power button and volume down) and let 'er reload recovery. If you can't get the file on your SD card through your phone, pop the SD card into a card reader attached to your PC and stick it on there that way.
Once that's done, remove the image file from your SD card, put your fav ROM on it, and install it from recovery.
You may need to fix your SD card's mount points. Within the thread on S-off, there's a link to the process.
None of the commands work because the phone is not recognized. I cannot boot to hboot. Uh oh.
I had the same screen. Pull the battery and reboot into hboot, volume down+power and run the s-off program again. Something didn't finish and it will pick up where it left off in my experience.
lithium630 said:
None of the commands work because the phone is not recognized. I cannot boot to hboot. Uh oh.
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What happens when you press power+volume down?
Edit: Also, if you're phone turns on, you're not bricked. It's pretty hard to brick this phone.
tekhna said:
What happens when you press power+volume down?
Edit: Also, if you're phone turns on, you're not bricked. It's pretty hard to brick this phone.
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Yeap just pull the battery and power on with power and volume down.
This kinda stuff you'll be fine with. Just don't get too creative with "repairs" that aren't posted in here.
tekhna said:
What happens when you press power+volume down?
Edit: Also, if you're phone turns on, you're not bricked. It's pretty hard to brick this phone.
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As I understand it, the only way to brick a phone is to bork a radio installation.
Dude...pull your battery, put it back in, then power and volume down at the same time. If you can get to hboot, life is good.
After about 30 battery pulls I was able to get to hboot. I have no idea what the issue was. Finally got the phone booting now. I appreciate the replies.
lithium630 said:
After about 30 battery pulls I was able to get to hboot. I have no idea what the issue was. Finally got the phone booting now. I appreciate the replies.
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Awesome, glad to hear. Did the s-off work?
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Awesome, glad to hear. Did the s-off work?
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Sure did. Took me a little while to get the wire trick right. I just noticed the sd card is not recognized. I see the fix on the thread. That will be tomorrows project.
Constant reboots
I am able to install roms, but I get constant reboots, every few minutes at best. I tried a few different ICS ROMS. I am running the latest firmware. I BELIEVE with s-off I shouldn't have to flash PH98IMG.zip. I tried fixing permissions also but it has not helped.
How did you get the latest firmware and radios without running the PH98IMG.zip? The ics roms you are installing won't update your firmware.
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Chillerman said:
How did you get the latest firmware and radios without running the PH98IMG.zip? The ics roms you are installing won't update your firmware.
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I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
lithium630 said:
I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
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Well the newest leak came out 5/7 and the one before that 5/2 so only a week ago. I would download the newest from Android Police and follow the instructions they give to install, then flash a recovery and install a rooted Rom for this firmware like Scott's.
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lithium630 said:
I relocked the phone and updated it a couple weeks ago. Maybe I need to try it again.
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I don't know why you relocked...I think there's a thread about not so good things happening to those who relock after S-off. I downloaded and installed the 5/5 leak as PH98IMG after I S-off'd and reflashed the recovery.
I'm pretty sure my hboot said "locked" straight out of the gate after I did the S-off deed.
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I don't know why you relocked...I think there's a thread about not so good things happening to those who relock after S-off. I downloaded and installed the 5/5 leak as PH98IMG after I S-off'd and reflashed the recovery.
I'm pretty sure my hboot said "locked" straight out of the gate after I did the S-off deed.
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Nothing bad happens, you just don't ever get back to "locked" without doing S-off again. You're just at "relocked" like the old days. S-on with an eng hboot on the other hand will brick your device.
That aside, there's no need to unlock if you're S-off. Either flash a patched hboot or just flash a PH98IMG.zip of AmonRa if you don't need fastboot commands (I did the latter).
I flashed the last firmware before S-off. I followed the instructions given. I flashed the latest firmware today and this damn thing still reboots constantly. I flashed the 5-7 firmware then the Venasaur Rom.
lithium630 said:
I flashed the last firmware before S-off. I followed the instructions given. I flashed the latest firmware today and this damn thing still reboots constantly. I flashed the 5-7 firmware then the Venasaur Rom.
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You need to try installing the radio firmware or just install the complete RUU again. And install a clean copy of the rom, not a nandroid backup. Wipe data, cache, dalvic cache, and system before flashing the rom.
Send me a private message if you would like and I'll help you get it figured out on gtalk.
So I am sending this amaze back to T-Mobile for a warrenty exchange. T-Mobile already sent me the replacement. Not going through HTC or Asuron.
I unlocked bootloader, flashed a recovery, then flashed a new rom. I made a nandroid of my stock rom I had on there before I did the unlock stuff.
So I wiped the custom rom , and restored the stock rom
So now I relocked bootloader and it says relocked and security warning. What exactly does that mean? Is it normal?
T-Mobile doesnt even care about that stuff right? I should only stress it if I was sending it into HTC. I hope lol.
The only problem I am having is when I try to master reset the phone, it takes me to the screen that says bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader, power down and I dont know why. The phone master reset fine the first time I attemped, but I just wanted to do it again. I hold the volume key down and power and the normal screen comes out with Fastvoot recovert factory reset clear storage simlock image crc , but when I click factory reset, it boots for 5 seconds and takes me back to the screen that has bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader etc etc. When I power on and off the phone, it turns on and everything is fine. Normal stock ICS.
Why cant I factory reset it again?
cause you relocked it and yes send it LOCKED
Flash a stock RUU via hboot, it's gonna wipe everything and take it back to complete stock.
Dark Nightmare said:
Flash a stock RUU via hboot, it's gonna wipe everything and take it back to complete stock.
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It will still say relocked... So not COMPLETELY stock
If htc or tmo get a device that is "relocked" that has software issues, the warranty MAY be in jeopardy... If needed
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But if you s-off, restore to stock, lock bootloader via fastboot and s-on via fastboot, it's gonna all be authentic.
Sent from my HTC Ruby using XDA
glacierguy said:
It will still say relocked... So not COMPLETELY stock
If htc or tmo get a device that is "relocked" that has software issues, the warranty MAY be in jeopardy... If needed
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Not really worried about it. Just wanna send it in normal, even if it says relocked. If they charge, they charge. I doubt it though. How much they charge anyway, tmobile that is. Might be able to just sell it and make some money and still pay back tmobile, seeing its on ebay for 350ish lol. Either way they already sent me a new phone.
Problem is, I did a clean wipe. Just the first one, not the other wipes. I flashed my Nandroid I made before I flashed a custom rom. Everything worked so I relocked it, but when I try to master reset, it automatically takes me to the screen that says bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader, power down and I dont know why
Am I doing something wrong?
For kicks I even downloaded the ota rom and flashed that one after i wiped the other, and when I rebooted that one , it just would flash the HTC sign. So I scratched that idea and redid what I first did.
Same happened to me. I was locking my buddys bootloader on his amaze before I flashed ics on it for him and it deleted his current rom and all of his pics... Everything ...
Learned the hard way. Then I flashed the ics leak in bootloader and it worked fine.
Are u soff? Cuz if u are... Make sure u have jbear or eng hboot flashed
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glacierguy said:
Same happened to me. I was locking my buddys bootloader on his amaze before I flashed ics on it for him and it deleted his current rom and all of his pics... Everything ...
Learned the hard way. Then I flashed the ics leak in bootloader and it worked fine.
Are u soff? Cuz if u are... Make sure u have jbear or eng hboot flashed
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Also not to mention, when I flashed the ICS zip I found on here , when I went into bootloader, all these weird things poped up about not having .imgs
Nah I am S ON.
I just wanna be able to relock the bootloader and it be able to master reset lol. Not worried about it saying relocked. Like I said, everything was working fine, until I tried master reseting and it doesnt allow it. I mean even from the volume down and power method, when I press master reset, it goes right back to that screen that says bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader, power down, without even reseting or rebooting.
Should I try this method even though I am using the ext recovery? ( when unlocked of course)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27058110&postcount=44
ITALIANNYC said:
Also not to mention, when I flashed the ICS zip I found on here , when I went into bootloader, all these weird things poped up about not having .imgs
Nah I am S ON.
I just wanna be able to relock the bootloader and it be able to master reset lol. Not worried about it saying relocked. Like I said, everything was working fine, until I tried master reseting and it doesnt allow it. I mean even from the volume down and power method, when I press master reset, it goes right back to that screen that says bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader, power down, without even reseting or rebooting.
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Usb debugging is hopefully turned on.
Connect phone to pc and boot into bootloader and go into fastboot.
Open command prompt on pc
Go to the directory where u have the fastboot program (ie "C:\Android\platform-tools" ) and your oem lock token
Type "fastboot OEM lock"
That should relock it.
Then take the PH85IMG and put on root of sd
Boot into bootloader and flash away. U will be good
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glacierguy said:
Usb debugging is hopefully turned on.
Connect phone to pc and boot into bootloader and go into fastboot.
Open command prompt on pc
Go to the directory where u have the fastboot program (ie "C:\Android\platform-tools") and your oem lock token
Type "fastboot OEM lock"
That should relock it.
Then take the PH85IMG and put on root of sd
Boot into bootloader and flash away. U will be good
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Oh yeah? I didnt know I could relock it before flashing it. Where is the ph85img image?
ITALIANNYC said:
Oh yeah? I didnt know I could relock it before flashing it. Where is the ph85img image?
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Not only can you... You MUST relock bootloadee before flashing ics. U can find the 214.531.3 leak in Footballs thread in dev section... Careful not to get 531.1 leak... That's old
Also... Its a zip package.. not an img file... Don't confuse yourself
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glacierguy said:
Not only can you... You MUST relock bootloadee before flashing ics. U can find the 214.531.3 leak in Footballs thread in dev section... Careful not to get 531.1 leak... That's old
Also... Its a zip package.. not an img file... Don't confuse yourself
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Wow I did not know that. I friggin flashed ICS before I relocked lol. I dont get it though. If I relock it first, wont it not have an OS on it after i wipe when it reboots itself. Do I even need to wipe period. Do I even need to use ext lol
I downloaded the tmobile flashable zip from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27058110&postcount=44
Meh anyway the one you told me to download is downloading as we speak. 2 hours left wow
and when I hit the HBOOT screen the first thing it does is say some stuff with no image no image no image no image. All ph85 stuff. Wont even allow me to flash anything if I tried. Im thinking maybe its because I havent relocked the boot loader yet? Who knows. Well see what happens when this is finished downloading
To be honest, Tmo doesn't care what you send back to them, you can just brick it if you're insecure, a bunch of people I know sent it droids with CWM and custom roms, they restore it back to stock and change what they have to when you send it in.
After you install that flashable zip, just restore stock recovery via hasoon's tool and delete the superuser.apk from system/app.
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Wow I did not know that. I friggin flashed ICS before I relocked lol. I dont get it though. If I relock it first, wont it not have an OS on it after i wipe when it reboots itself. Do I even need to wipe period. Do I even need to use ext lol
I downloaded the tmobile flashable zip from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27058110&postcount=44
Meh anyway the one you told me to download is downloading as we speak. 2 hours left wow
and when I hit the HBOOT screen the first thing it does is say some stuff with no image no image no image no image. All ph85 stuff. Wont even allow me to flash anything if I tried. Im thinking maybe its because I havent relocked the boot loader yet? Who knows. Well see what happens when this is finished downloading
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That's because its looking for your ph85img.zip file
Once u download and rename the file, and put it on ur sd card, AND relock your bootloader, it will unpack the zip and update
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So I am sending this amaze back to T-Mobile for a warrenty exchange. T-Mobile already sent me the replacement. Not going through HTC or Asuron.
I unlocked bootloader, flashed a recovery, then flashed a new rom. I made a nandroid of my stock rom I had on there before I did the unlock stuff.
So I wiped the custom rom , and restored the stock rom
So now I relocked bootloader and it says relocked and security warning. What exactly does that mean? Is it normal?
T-Mobile doesnt even care about that stuff right? I should only stress it if I was sending it into HTC. I hope lol.
The only problem I am having is when I try to master reset the phone, it takes me to the screen that says bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader, power down and I dont know why. The phone master reset fine the first time I attemped, but I just wanted to do it again. I hold the volume key down and power and the normal screen comes out with Fastvoot recovert factory reset clear storage simlock image crc , but when I click factory reset, it boots for 5 seconds and takes me back to the screen that has bootloader, reboot, reload bootloader etc etc. When I power on and off the phone, it turns on and everything is fine. Normal stock ICS.
Why cant I factory reset it again?
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Just wondering what was the end result of your warranty adventure? Did tmobile end up charging you???
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Just wondering what was the end result of your warranty adventure? Did tmobile end up charging you???
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nope
I purchased a Rezound from eBay and it's locked with a gesture lock. The seller told me to do a factory reset, which I did a couple of times, and it doesn't reset the phone to the new activation screen. It looks like he rooted the phone at one point. The recovery screen says "Tampered," "Relocked," and "VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON RL."
My question is, how do I get past the gesture lock? Will rooting and flashing a different rom do the trick? I am obviously a newbie, and likely wouldn't have rooted it and installed a custom rom if I didn't have to, but it seems like I may have to at this point. Thanks!
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I purchased a Rezound from eBay and it's locked with a gesture lock. The seller told me to do a factory reset, which I did a couple of times, and it doesn't reset the phone to the new activation screen. It looks like he rooted the phone at one point. The recovery screen says "Tampered," "Relocked," and "VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON RL."
My question is, how do I get past the gesture lock? Will rooting and flashing a different rom do the trick? I am obviously a newbie, and likely wouldn't have rooted it and installed a custom rom if I didn't have to, but it seems like I may have to at this point. Thanks!
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Flash a custom recovery and wipe if you want the stock Rom.rooted
Or you can just ruu to stock and it will wipe it
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Thanks for the advice. I used the Rezound All in One kit and got it working. I'll leave it rooted for now, maybe install ICS on it.
willievee said:
Thanks for the advice. I used the Rezound All in One kit and got it working. I'll leave it rooted for now, maybe install ICS on it.
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Deff go for ICS, i'd even recommend stepping up to Sense 4 but you might prefer stock
Sense 4.0 still has a few bugs, but 3.6 is golden.
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willievee said:
I purchased a Rezound from eBay and it's locked with a gesture lock. The seller told me to do a factory reset, which I did a couple of times, and it doesn't reset the phone to the new activation screen. It looks like he rooted the phone at one point. The recovery screen says "Tampered," "Relocked," and "VIGOR PVT SHIP S-ON RL."
My question is, how do I get past the gesture lock? Will rooting and flashing a different rom do the trick? I am obviously a newbie, and likely wouldn't have rooted it and installed a custom rom if I didn't have to, but it seems like I may have to at this point. Thanks!
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Obviously the first thing that comes to mind is if all it needed was to have a factory reset done why didn't the seller do just that and avoid the hassle? Kinda like when you look at a car and all it needs for the AC to work is a recharge..yeah I've been bit by that one before too.
Glad you got it working..youll enjoy being rooted
Looks like it isn't entirely right. I took it to Verizon to get it activated, and I have data connectivity but cannot call or text at all. The software version is 4.0.3 Android with 3.6 Sense. I am going to try to restore the factory version (from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338916) and hope that does the trick. Otherwise, I guess there's something wrong and I have to return the phone to the seller.
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Looks like it isn't entirely right. I took it to Verizon to get it activated, and I have data connectivity but cannot call or text at all. The software version is 4.0.3 Android with 3.6 Sense. I am going to try to restore the factory version (from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338916) and hope that does the trick. Otherwise, I guess there's something wrong and I have to return the phone to the seller.
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If you haven't done this yet, what is your baseband.
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My baseband is 1.22.10.0421r.
I haven't done anything yet. Currently downloading the RUU.
willievee said:
My baseband is 1.22.10.0421r.
I haven't done anything yet. Currently downloading the RUU.
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Are you downloading aan ICS ruin?
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I want to restore it to stock, so I'm downloading an official RUU from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338916&page=12.
(RUU_Vigor_VERIZON_WWE_2.01.605.11_Radio_RS_0.95.00.1123r_3161E_9K_QMR_release_233635_signed.exe)
willievee said:
I want to restore it to stock, so I'm downloading an official RUU from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338916&page=12.
(RUU_Vigor_VERIZON_WWE_2.01.605.11_Radio_RS_0.95.00.1123r_3161E_9K_QMR_release_233635_signed.exe)
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You wont be able to run that RUU. You are s-on and cannot go backwards in RUU you can only go forward. Either s-off or you'll need to flash the latest ICS RUU leak.
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Gotcha. Thanks. I'll try to sort out how to download the newest ICS RUU and flash it. I tried to follow these directions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614366
and downloaded [ICS][2.25][STOCK][5-7]PH98IMG.zip but I wasn't able to flash it. I guess I have to figure out which ICS RUU to download and flash.
I still don't understand why I have data but no call or text capability.
willievee said:
Gotcha. Thanks. I'll try to sort out how to download the newest ICS RUU and flash it. I tried to follow these directions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614366
and downloaded [ICS][2.25][STOCK][5-7]PH98IMG.zip but I wasn't able to flash it. I guess I have to figure out which ICS RUU to download and flash.
I still don't understand why I have data but no call or text capability.
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http://multiupload.biz/bdkjtkk1j4zw/PH98IMG_MultiUpload.biz.zip.html
Download that file, rename it PH98IMG.ZIP and make sure it isn't named PH98IMG.ZIP.ZIP and then put that on the root of the actual SD Card. Not the internal memory.
Reboot into hboot, and it will find that file and load it. You will have to chose volume + to accept. It will flash bootloader first, then the radios and rom and such. After this has flashed and booted, delete the PH98IMG.ZIP file from your sd card, and then reboot into hboot and chose factory reset. Let it do its thing, and try a phone call or text on reboot.
should be good to go after this.
I downloaded the file, put it in the root directory of the sd card, and booted into hboot. It says "Loading PH98IMG.zip" for a few minutes, then goes back to the hboot screen. I then powered down, removed SD card, and tried to factory reset. The phone entered the Android system recovery. I rebooted, and the phone seemed exactly the same. I'll retry, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Update: I've retried a few times, and it just seems that hboot won't load PH98IMG.zip. Might it matter that I'm still at S-ON?
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I downloaded the file, put it in the root directory of the sd card, and booted into hboot. It says "Loading PH98IMG.zip" for a few minutes, then goes back to the hboot screen. I then powered down, removed SD card, and tried to factory reset. The phone entered the Android system recovery. I rebooted, and the phone seemed exactly the same. I'll retry, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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Try redownloading again might have been a bad download. Remember once the file starts to flash it might shut off and turn on and continue doing its thing just make sure when it's all done every item says "ok" next to it if it does your good to go next just make sure you go into bootloader do a factory reset.
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willievee said:
I downloaded the file, put it in the root directory of the sd card, and booted into hboot. It says "Loading PH98IMG.zip" for a few minutes, then goes back to the hboot screen. I then powered down, removed SD card, and tried to factory reset. The phone entered the Android system recovery. I rebooted, and the phone seemed exactly the same. I'll retry, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Update: I've retried a few times, and it just seems that hboot won't load PH98IMG.zip. Might it matter that I'm still at S-ON?
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No s-on wouldn't matter. Your bootloader is still locked right?
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I unlocked the bootloader last night. Redownloading the file now.
willievee said:
I unlocked the bootloader last night. Redownloading the file now.
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Relock the bootloader I believe when S-ON you have to lock it to run the RUU
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LakerStar25 said:
Relock the bootloader I believe when S-ON you have to lock it to run the RUU
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This. It won't run else wise. I didn't think to ask this as you said previously it was locked.
My bad.
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Sooo, playing with rooting, been rooted for a couple days, flashed viperlte rom and had problems and decided to take it back to stock for now. Gonna be on the road and can't be 'experimenting'...attempted to go back to stock, by using the original RUU, and as I understood it, I needed to lock the phone back first. Didn't make sense as I was wondering how I could flash a Rom if it was locked back. After locking, when trying to go to recovery, it just comes back to fastboot. I can't get into the main phone--it boots to a screen, but no buttons work, although if i press volume up/down it shows it on the screen. What have I done?! I'll admit being a newb to phones, so please, some guru help me get back to something
Here's what fastboot shows:
TAMPERED
RELOCKED
SECURITY WARNING
Fireball pvt ship s-on rl
Hboot 1.15
Radio 1.53
opendsp v29.1.0.45
emmc-boot
It wouldn't read either of the mini sd-cards I used after rooting, so I can't just get use my sdcard with a new or original rom. I can't get to a main phone screen to turn on usb debugging, so no adp? Any ideas?
zazaray said:
Sooo, playing with rooting, been rooted for a couple days, flashed viperlte rom and had problems and decided to take it back to stock for now. Gonna be on the road and can't be 'experimenting'...attempted to go back to stock, by using the original RUU, and as I understood it, I needed to lock the phone back first. Didn't make sense as I was wondering how I could flash a Rom if it was locked back. After locking, when trying to go to recovery, it just comes back to fastboot. I can't get into the main phone--it boots to a screen, but no buttons work, although if i press volume up/down it shows it on the screen. What have I done?! I'll admit being a newb to phones, so please, some guru help me get back to something
Here's what fastboot shows:
TAMPERED
RELOCKED
SECURITY WARNING
Fireball pvt ship s-on rl
Hboot 1.15
Radio 1.53
opendsp v29.1.0.45
emmc-boot
It wouldn't read either of the mini sd-cards I used after rooting, so I can't just get use my sdcard with a new or original rom. I can't get to a main phone screen to turn on usb debugging, so no adp? Any ideas?
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download the ruu rename it PJ53IMG THEN transfer it to your sdcard via your computer and put back in phone and boot to bootloader, it should pick up the PJ53IMG, AND ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE, hit volume up to sat yes.(put sdcard in an adapter and put in your computer to transfer) Also you want 2.17.605.2 ruu software. make sure the zip is on the root of the sdcard(not in a folder, then make sure after you transfer that the file doesn't have 2 zips on it (PJ53IMG.ZIP.ZIP)YOU WANT ONLY ONE ZIP
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download the ruu rename it PJ53IMG THEN transfer it to your sdcard via your computer and put back in phone and boot to bootloader, it should pick up the PJ53IMG, AND ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE, hit volume up to sat yes.(put sdcard in an adapter and put in your computer to transfer) Also you want 2.17.605.2 ruu software. make sure the zip is on the root of the sdcard(not in a folder, then make sure after you transfer that the file doesn't have 2 zips on it (PJ53IMG.ZIP.ZIP)YOU WANT ONLY ONE ZIP
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Thank you for the response. Tried this, it loaded the zip, then went to 'checking' and after that, back to the bootloader. Never asked me if I wanted to proceed. When rebooted it brought me back to where I was, a phone which appears to be up--clock works, wifi is on, but I can't do anything. I feel pretty confident the img is good. Thoughts?
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Thank you for the response. Tried this, it loaded the zip, then went to 'checking' and after that, back to the bootloader. Never asked me if I wanted to proceed. When rebooted it brought me back to where I was, a phone which appears to be up--clock works, wifi is on, but I can't do anything. I feel pretty confident the img is good. Thoughts?
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HOW did you put the ruu on the sdcard? from the computer? or usb
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HOW did you put the ruu on the sdcard? from the computer? or usb
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XP PC, formatted fat32, put it on root...just tried a different ruu, searched the exact string, the 2.0... and got it from a xda forum member, so I feel confident in the ruu. It did the same thing, loaded it, checked it for about 2 mins, then returned me to the loader. I noticed SECURITY WARNING is gone from bootloader now, FYI. What else can we try?
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XP PC, formatted fat32, put it on root...just tried a different ruu, searched the exact string, the 2.0... and got it from a xda forum member, so I feel confident in the ruu. It did the same thing, loaded it, checked it for about 2 mins, then returned me to the loader. I noticed SECURITY WARNING is gone from bootloader now, FYI. What else can we try?
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go to your file explorer and access the ext sdcard and see if the file is PJ53IMG.ZIP
you ARE downloading a zip file and not an image file????
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go to your file explorer and access the ext sdcard and see if the file is PJ53IMG.ZIP
you ARE downloading a zip file and not an image file????
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That is the name of the file and here is the link where I'm downloading the zip file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947600
zazaray said:
That is the name of the file and here is the link where I'm downloading the zip file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947600
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that's the right one, it should work, ////...????
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that's the right one, it should work, ////...????
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Oh no, not what I wanted to hear Thanks for the help, any other ideas? Anyone else experienced it loading the zip, check it, then nothing happen? I'll do some forum searching...
Can you unlock the bootloader again?
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Can you unlock the bootloader again?
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I dunno, is there a way to do it from the bootloader? Cause I can't get to a place where I can push adp commands and I can't get to recovery...i've hosed this thing haven't I? I've got insurance, do I need to drop this thing in the sink and get another? And maybe not try rooting the next one...
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I dunno, is there a way to do it from the bootloader? Cause I can't get to a place where I can push adp commands and I can't get to recovery...i've hosed this thing haven't I? I've got insurance, do I need to drop this thing in the sink and get another? And maybe not try rooting the next one...
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No need for all that just calm down. I'm confused are you stuck n bootloader or can you boot up into your ROM?
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
You said you where relocked right? You must be locked to ruu
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zazaray said:
I dunno, is there a way to do it from the bootloader? Cause I can't get to a place where I can push adp commands and I can't get to recovery...i've hosed this thing haven't I? I've got insurance, do I need to drop this thing in the sink and get another? And maybe not try rooting the next one...
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If you are on my boot loader unlock method just unlock, flash recovery and then a rom
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jose51197 said:
If you are on my boot loader unlock method just unlock, flash recovery and then a rom
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Would you mind posting a link to your unlock method? The method I used the first time was using usb debugging and adp commands from windows. Can I unlock somehow from within the bootloader? Thank you very much for your help. Lol, my phone is ringing at this moment but i've got know way to answer it
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You said you where relocked right? You must be locked to ruu
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Yes, I relocked from the bootloader, as I guess i misunderstood that I needed to do that before flashing the ruu...I was actually on one of the custom roms when I locked it
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No need for all that just calm down. I'm confused are you stuck n bootloader or can you boot up into your ROM?
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
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I CAN boot into the rom, but nothing is accessible...the phone rings if someone calls, beeps alerts for mail notification or txt, but no buttons work and screen is blank(except for wallpaper). I can see the icons connect to wifi and such, so it's working, I guess, sort of...
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Would you mind posting a link to your unlock method? The method I used the first time was using usb debugging and adp commands from windows. Can I unlock somehow from within the bootloader? Thank you very much for your help. Lol, my phone is ringing at this moment but i've got know way to answer it
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no way to answer it, even
Have you tried wiping everything and flashing a new ROM.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
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Have you tried wiping everything and flashing a new ROM.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3192/1362812254888.png
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I can't get into recovery or use adp commands from windows, is there another way I can wipe and flash?
moonshine doesn't like xposed
fastboot oem lock
device modified
s-on
relocked
security warning
used 0PJAIMG.zip on sd card cuz ruu failed, and fastboot flash unlock token gave "no such partition" (or something) and flashing the clean system.emmc.win gave same error
it did it's thing with flashing opjaimg.zip and when finished it said press power button to complete and it now wont come back on.
plugged into charger i get no led
effen fantastic
i want my m7 back...........
moonshine was for the M7. They have no m9 varient. why would you do that?
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moonshine was for the M7. They have no m9 varient. why would you do that?
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i ment sunshine. i was tired. the apk ran fine before i had exposed, got paid yesterday and was going to drop the $25 for s-off.
and all i did was relock bootloader and run ruu from sd card and it broke device
ahh ok makes more sense now, sorry.
jpwhre said:
i ment sunshine. i was tired. the apk ran fine before i had exposed, got paid yesterday and was going to drop the $25 for s-off.
and all i did was relock bootloader and run ruu from sd card and it broke device
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was it the original .17 ruu zip?
Unlock your bootloader again by running the unlock file in download mode. *I had to do this twice, as it failed the first time after relocking*
Flash back to stock rooted.
Run RUU
I locked my bootloader thinking I would need to when running the RUU. Turned out that I couldn't do anything without unlocking again. I thought I was stuck too, but then the unlocked worked (luckily)
He said he couldn't power up. But I suspect he can.
Hold Vol Up & Down and Power all at once for a while.
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He said he couldn't power up. But I suspect he can.
Hold Vol Up & Down and Power all at once for a while.
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same thing happened to me when i was on .30 and accidentally flashed the .17 RUU... its bricked, sorry :/ it wont even power on. Mine didnt I just took it back to sprint and told them it was DOA when i got it.. they wont be able to power it on either so just take it back to them and play dumb. They will get you a new one.
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was it the original .17 ruu zip?
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https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934554226
Harfainx said:
Unlock your bootloader again by running the unlock file in download mode. *I had to do this twice, as it failed the first time after relocking*
Flash back to stock rooted.
Run RUU
I locked my bootloader thinking I would need to when running the RUU. Turned out that I couldn't do anything without unlocking again. I thought I was stuck too, but then the unlocked worked (luckily)
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Nope
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He said he couldn't power up. But I suspect he can.
Hold Vol Up & Down and Power all at once for a while.
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My fingers hurt
deakelem said:
same thing happened to me when i was on .30 and accidentally flashed the .17 RUU... its bricked, sorry :/ it wont even power on. Mine didnt I just took it back to sprint and told them it was DOA when i got it.. they wont be able to power it on either so just take it back to them and play dumb. They will get you a new one.
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My girlfriend told me to do the same thing, after looking at me and asking what i did (and tells me to quit doing this sh!t, again)
When I fastboot oem lock, it rebooted into bootloader (not download) and gave me security warning and refuse to reboot to system.
I tried to flash unlock token back and it kept giving me errors of partition doesn't exist. Ran RUU and it put device into fastboot oem rebootRUU mode and then sat for 5 minutes waiting on bootloader. So i put above zip on sd and flashed in download mode. Finished successfully and then gave option to reboot, and it never came back on.
14 days to the day today. No questions asked, they just exchanged it.
Girlfriend asked me the dumbest question afterwords.. "You going to eff with this one too?" of course i am, duh
jpwhre said:
14 days to the day today. No questions asked, they just exchanged it.
Girlfriend asked me the dumbest question afterwords.. "You going to eff with this one too?" of course i am, duh
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Boy, are you in the dog house lol
Congrats on getting a new one. Think twice, flash once.
I'm always Leary of EVER going backwards on firmware.
mswlogo said:
Boy, are you in the dog house lol
Congrats on getting a new one. Think twice, flash once.
I'm always Leary of EVER going backwards on firmware.
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Well we've been together for 4.5 years and i've been doing this crap since 2007 so there is no way she'll get me to stop.
I didn't go backwards. I was on bone stock rooted .30 with xposed, and instead of going the the bizzilian files in recovery to delete, rename and uninstall the hard way, i figured oem lock and flashing stock sprint .30 and rooting again would be easier.
Found culprit though. Just settling down from school and store run, time to start over with new phone and do s-off before i do anything else, low and behold the usb port on laptop is failing. I keep all files/tools on 2 tb external hard drive connected to 3.0 port. One 2.0 usb port i knew failed last year, only left with 1 and it died. couldn't get phone to reboot with adb, or get adb to find device. Getting unlock token froze half way thru.
Copying fold to desktop to plug phone into 3.0 and go from there.
Thank you, thank you!
mswlogo said:
He said he couldn't power up. But I suspect he can.
Hold Vol Up & Down and Power all at once for a while.
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I had bricked my phone for a couple of days before finding this little nugget of gold. So pleased to find that everything was as I had left it and no need to format. I'll NEVER format an SD card as internal again.
So very grateful that you posted this. :victory: