I think I did the S-off procedure with the wire when I installed Ineffablis Deus 1.0 a few months ago, but I'm not absolutely sure. What is the easiest way to check?
Power down your phone. Sometimes you might need to pull the battery to make this work right, by the way.
Power back on by holding Vol Down AND Power at the same time.
The bootloader will show up. Look at the top and you should see something that indicates if you have S-ON or S-OFF.
Hope this helps.
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So I have a possbile bad digitizer and wanted to return to stock before going to sprint. Phone shipped with 1.13 and 1.40 bootloader. I rooted s-off with revolutionary.
I downloaded the 1.13 ruu and tried to run it. It looked fine but then returned an error it couldnt complete. I assumed I had to set security to on first and ran the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" without quotes. When I rebooted bootloader it then said s-on. I then rebooted system and now I seem to have a paper weight. The phone will not turn on or when plugged in the charging LED does nothing.
I do notice if I pull the battery and put it back in, the charging led is very very faint.
Is this phone now hard bricked or is there anyway to fix it?
uhhh try taking the battery out for like 10 mins and then try again. And if all fails again try running another ruu
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I do notice if I pull the battery and put it back in, the charging led is very very faint.
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Could it be that the battery is dead and needs to be charge...
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splink7007 said:
So I have a possbile bad digitizer and wanted to return to stock before going to sprint. Phone shipped with 1.13 and 1.40 bootloader. I rooted s-off with revolutionary.
I downloaded the 1.13 ruu and tried to run it. It looked fine but then returned an error it couldnt complete. I assumed I had to set security to on first and ran the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" without quotes. When I rebooted bootloader it then said s-on. I then rebooted system and now I seem to have a paper weight. The phone will not turn on or when plugged in the charging LED does nothing.
I do notice if I pull the battery and put it back in, the charging led is very very faint.
Is this phone now hard bricked or is there anyway to fix it?
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Your bricked??? That's awesome! How many tries did it take you?
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splink7007 said:
So I have a possbile bad digitizer and wanted to return to stock before going to sprint. Phone shipped with 1.13 and 1.40 bootloader. I rooted s-off with revolutionary.
I downloaded the 1.13 ruu and tried to run it. It looked fine but then returned an error it couldnt complete. I assumed I had to set security to on first and ran the command "fastboot oem writesecureflag 3" without quotes. When I rebooted bootloader it then said s-on. I then rebooted system and now I seem to have a paper weight. The phone will not turn on or when plugged in the charging LED does nothing.
I do notice if I pull the battery and put it back in, the charging led is very very faint.
Is this phone now hard bricked or is there anyway to fix it?
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the phone doesnt turn on at all or wont boot up?....can you boot into hboot?
if you can get to the bootloader, we can fix it. if you cant, its a wrap unfortunately.
press and hold volume down & power with the phone off to get into bootloader.
phone would not boot at all. Not even to bootloader.
Had to get a refurb from Sprint yersterday
thats not a bad thing. refurbished devices are repaired by hand and are hand tested before being sold again. your device might be better than mine.
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phone would not boot at all. Not even to bootloader.
Had to get a refurb from Sprint yersterday
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My guess is you spanked your old one dunno how tho ..
Reaper midnight blue .
Hello!
When you put it to charger,the led turn red and after a sec turn off?
Put the camera button and the power together.
I had the some problem and I solved with this trick after 2-3 times.
P.s.: sorry for my English.
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manos_23 said:
Hello!
When you put it to charger,the led turn red and after a sec turn off?
Put the camera button and the power together.
I had the some problem and I solved with this trick after 2-3 times.
P.s.: sorry for my English.
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Lol he ended up getting a refurb cause the other one was spanked.
Try starting from step 3 in unknownforce's downgrade guide. Step 3 is UNbrick so it might just save you
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It is possible to fix but first you would have to download the original ruu or close to it there floating around in here check the CDMA development section I found mine in the GSM development I'm sure you can't find it and if you do keep a copy on your desktop or laptop incase of emergency such as this good luck
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Try taking the battery for ten minutes and when you put the battery back in see if you can boot into bootloader that way.
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Hi.
I recently got a refurbished Evo 3D after my old one's digitizer broke. About 2 days afterwards, I was being stupid and accidentally dropped my phone. The back popped off and the battery came out. Now it shows a dim red light whenever it should be charging (via usb cable into my computer) and refuses to even turn on. However, whenever I plug it in, it makes the sound that windows recognizes that a USB device is plugged in. Is this a sign of hope that I can fix my phone? Please give me any suggestions.
Things I have tried:
-Holding power down (with the volume buttons and camera button etc.)
-Trying to use the command: adb reboot bootloader
-Taking out batter and using a different one from another phone.
-Charging the original battery to full using the spare Evo 3D and then attempting the above.
Before I dropped it I did root the phone and stupidly attempted to install the wrong ROM (used CDMA instead of the other one, can't remember the name off the top of my head, but it's the one used in Rogers phones), but it didn't brick the phone or anything.
One more thing to note is that right after I dropped it and tried to boot it up it made it to the white HTC screen, then turned off.
Hopefully this is enough information, and thanks in advance for any help.
Check out the thread in the dev section about downgrading hboot 1.5 at some point in it, you purposefully brick it to a faint red light. Try to follow instructions from there.
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Check out the thread in the dev section about downgrading hboot 1.5 at some point in it, you purposefully brick it to a faint red light. Try to follow instructions from there.
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Any other suggestions? I don't have a linux machine, and currently my ISP is not exactly cooperating with my internet connection, so it's extremely slow atm, and as a result will probably take too long to download.
troublein420 said:
Check out the thread in the dev section about downgrading hboot 1.5 at some point in it, you purposefully brick it to a faint red light. Try to follow instructions from there.
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Not to just repeat what others have said, but the dim red light truly sounds like what happens when the phone is bricked. If it is, you may be able to save it by following that thread when your ISP cooperates. It is strange though that dropping it would cause it to brick.
If he is on Rogers, he has a GSM phone & can't use the Hboot 1.50 cdma downgrade thread. There are 2 stickied downgrade threads in the Gsm section.
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Well you know the old saying once you drop it its over or you could turn it in and get a replacement
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out of warranty ? =.=
just 2 days after returning
Here's what I would try
Here's what I would try:
1. Take battery out of phone and make sure, 100% sure, the phone is off.
2. Once the phone is 100% powered down pop the battery back in.
3. Now what I would do is hold down power + volume up until the phone comes to HBOOT.
4. If HBOOT doesn't come up, idk. If you have a working nandroid, I would restore from it. If you don't, just select fast boot, then select the option to start up normally (which I forget what it is called...).
-cburk
I've searched the forums and consulted Google and for the life of me cannot find anywhere how one actually figures out the HBOOT version of their HTC Flyer. I have Honeycomb, if it makes a difference.
Shut your Flyer down completely. Be sure fast Boot is turned off in the power settings from your Settings menu.
-Wait for about 10 seconds after you powered down.
-Hold the Volume Down button for about 3 seconds.
-Keep holding Volume Down and then press and hold down Power simultaneously.
-So you should be holding Volume Down and Power at the same time.
The tablet should now boot into Hboot menu.
Your Hboot should be listed near the top.
***I kinda exaggerated the wait times and time you need to hold the buttons. It really should take just a few seconds of holding the buttons. But until you get the hang of the timing, this should be fool proof.
Thanks, worked perfectly. Also, is there any sort of tutorial for using HTCdev Unlock Bootloader for the Flyer? I swear that there's no useful documentation for doing anything dev-related on this device anywhere.
what is your end goal? HTC Dev unlock is in most cases not the best solution
I'm trying to root and get S-Off on my Flyer, but revolutionary doesn't support my HBOOT. Any information I can find about doing it seems to assume that you're already an expert going in.
KalosCast said:
I'm trying to root and get S-Off on my Flyer, but revolutionary doesn't support my HBOOT. Any information I can find about doing it seems to assume that you're already an expert going in.
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Are you on honeycomb or gingerbread
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I'm on Honeycomb.
you need to downgrade to gingerbread s off then use the s off hc method. there are a couple different routes to do so, and all do require a bit of knowledge or at least solid reading comprehension to accomplish
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
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Yesss this sh*t is impossible.! I actually got pissed off cuz I COULDNT brick the damn phone lol
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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.
Recovery and HBOOT is not visible on my device but they are there.
Not asking about that.
I have CWM flashed and I am trying to blindly flash superuser.zip renamed as update
I have watched youtube and counted the correct sequence of buttons can someone please verify this for me?
Hold down volume down and power.
HBOOT:
1 down (recovery)
Power
CWM:
4 down
Power
1 down
Power
4 up FIVE UP
Power
FLASHING SUPERUSER
1 up
Power
Power
REBOOTING
When I do this, the phone reboots automaticallly but superuser is still not installed.
I have placed a copy of the update (renamed from superuser) on my SD, Internal, and EXTSD on internal to cover every base possible.
I have also tried:
FROM RECOVERY CWM
1 down
Power
4 Up
Power
FLASHING SUPERUSER
1 down
Power
Power
AND IT REBOOTS
I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AFter SIX MONTHS I GOT ROOT ON THIS PHONE WITH NON WORKING DISPLAY....
IF ANYONE WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO DO IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED JUST ASK.....
That's really cool, but why doesn't your display work? And why don't you fix it?
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That's really cool, but why doesn't your display work? And why don't you fix it?
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No idea why it doesn't work.
And by fix do you mean replace? I don't have the money nor do I want to.
This was a BIG CHALLENGE for me. The phone is now rooted, s-off ad unlocked bootloader of course without ever seeing HBOOT or Recovery on the screen.
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No idea why it doesn't work.
And by fix do you mean replace? I don't have the money nor do I want to.
This was a BIG CHALLENGE for me. The phone is now rooted, s-off ad unlocked bootloader of course without ever seeing HBOOT or Recovery on the screen.
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Why would you need a rooted phone with a broken display?
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
Why would you need a rooted phone with a broken display?
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HAHA, I can see your confusion.
Everything works perfect on this phone. Even the ROM once it is booted up.
For some reason I just cannot see HBOOT or Recovery.
I HAVE NO IDEA NOR DOES ANYONE I HAVE EVER ASKED KNOW WHY THIS WOULD BE.
SWEEEEET!
GOOD FOR YOU BUDDY!
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