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Hey Guys, could sure use your help... i updated my 10.1 le yesterday and that went thru fine. Later on i was playing and watching youtube and it sent my tablet into a boot loop and i cant seem to fix it. any help would be appreciated thanks in advance.
Mine did the same thing when i was streaming music. Not even Odin brought it back. I used adb to reboot into stock 3e recovery and wipe data/factory reset it, then used Odin to grt back to 3.0.1. Then i just redownloaded the 3.1 update. Hope that helps
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Mine did the same thing when i was streaming music. Not even Odin brought it back. I used adb to reboot into stock 3e recovery and wipe data/factory reset it, then used Odin to grt back to 3.0.1. Then i just redownloaded the 3.1 update. Hope that helps
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right now im having problems with adb listing the devices. adb is installed. it keeps saying that i need some APX drivers???
Drivers are here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/GT-P7510UWYXAR
I had the same problem. This is what i did. Since I had already rooted my tablet, I already had in my laptop ADB and the driver for the tablet. If you don't have these 2 things, I suggest you go to the development section of this forum, look for the insrltructions on how to root, and download what you need.
I connected my tablet then went into cmd mode (DOS MODE), then typed adb reboot recovery. From there the tablet rebooted into recovery. I then wiped data and cache. Then I rebooted and it went fine, no more bootloop. In settings I noticed that it had reverted back to 3.0.1 so I just did update again. Since then my tablet has been smooth as butter.
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For those not too comfortable with ADB, I just installed PDAnet (for the fastboot drivers) and after booting to fastboot (holding power and the volume down button and selecting the USB symbol) I used the "fastboot -w" command in CMD.exe to wipe the device.
Its rather strange that a lot of people are having problems. Mine started after getting an error turning on the WIFI chip. Thank god for Titanium Backup's option to sync with Dropbox. Hope this helps.
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For those not too comfortable with ADB, I just installed PDAnet (for the fastboot drivers) and after booting to fastboot (holding power and the volume down button and selecting the USB symbol) I used the "fastboot -w" command in CMD.exe to wipe the device.
Its rather strange that a lot of people are having problems. Mine started after getting an error turning on the WIFI chip. Thank god for Titanium Backup's option to sync with Dropbox. Hope this helps.
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THANK YOU!! Your suggestion of installing PDAnet saved me! I was having a hell of a time trying to get the right drivers so my computer would recognize the tablet has an adb device. After installing PDAnet, it was a cinch. Then I reflashed everything, wiped userdata and cache, and rebooted (I followed the instructions found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14600617&postcount=111) Now my tab is working again and I was getting ready to ship it off to Samsung so they could re-flash it for me.
Follow this steps
The steps are this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15084897&postcount=123
Obviously I have installed adroid-sdk and download fastboot from HTC page.
I'm one of the lucky ones who has had their I/O tab stuck in a boot loop on 3.1, and after trying the steps below, I am not getting it to work. I know I must be making a stupid mistake somewhere along the line, but essentially,
I downloaded the new image, boot, and recovery files into a directory on my hard drive;
I installed PDAnet;
I entered into fastboot on my GTab and plugged it into my PC;
I can tell that fastboot is now listed as a device (I suspect this means that the drivers are installed correctly and that it is recognizing a fastboot device);
Now when I try to run the fastboot commands suggested, I get 'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command...
Stupid question, but I am supposed to run this command from cmd.exe, right? Any ideas what I am doing wrong so that the fastboot commands are not recognizable? I may need a dumbed down instruction set if there are steps I am missing somewhere...
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I'm one of the lucky ones who has had their I/O tab stuck in a boot loop on 3.1, and after trying the steps below, I am not getting it to work. I know I must be making a stupid mistake somewhere along the line, but essentially,
I downloaded the new image, boot, and recovery files into a directory on my hard drive;
I installed PDAnet;
I entered into fastboot on my GTab and plugged it into my PC;
I can tell that fastboot is now listed as a device (I suspect this means that the drivers are installed correctly and that it is recognizing a fastboot device);
Now when I try to run the fastboot commands suggested, I get 'fastboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command...
Stupid question, but I am supposed to run this command from cmd.exe, right? Any ideas what I am doing wrong so that the fastboot commands are not recognizable? I may need a dumbed down instruction set if there are steps I am missing somewhere...
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After trying just about everything, I have concluded there are two hurdles I still cannot pass. First, if I fastboot my device, and select the USB icon, my device is appearing in my windows device list. However, I cannot run any fastboot commands in cmd.exe window. Not sure why or what else is needed. Second, I successfully installed SDK and tried to enter recovery mode through ADB, but I cannot find the magic trick to have my device appear in ADB. ODINing back to stock did not make a difference. If I can get past either of these hurdles I am confident I can progress, so any suggestions are appreciated.
fastboot commands never seem to work for me. Always says waiting for device.
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fastboot commands never seem to work for me. Always says waiting for device.
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Which makes me wonder if I am doing something wrong. I can't even get fastbook command to be recognized. It's as if there is some fastboot software needed so that my pc knows what to do when I type fastboot. I hoped SDK was enough, took a stab with a fastboot.exe from htc I found on another forum, neither worked. How did you get your pc to look for your device from fastboot in the first place?
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Hi .. I have the same problems before
I found out that the new ADB has moved the directory to "platform-tools"
This renders the fastboot useless "winapiadb.dll"(or something) file not found pop up window
I got that ridiculous bootloop issue right in the middle of the flight! thought I bought a $$$ junk lol
use the fastboot -w option to recover .. but it resets the whole tablet back to OE (original everything)
Hey guys,
So I have one of the Limited Edition Google IO Galaxy Tab 10.1's and I can't find a more updated thread than this. It seems this problem is isolated or mostly isolated to the Limited Edition tabs?
Anyways, I've read through the thread (as well as many other resources) and I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do to defeat the boot loop problem.
For me, pressing the Power and Volume up button (or Power and Volume down button) doesn't do a thing. The tablet does not respond at all. The only thing other than the boot loop is that I can get it into "upload mode" whatever that is.
This thread doesn't mention upload mode, so I don't know how to proceed. I can't seem to find anything in the manual about this sort of hard reset, nor can I find any information anywhere else.
Also, I've read this thread, and I do not have any familiarity with what the following software projects are: Odin, PDAnet, and APX Drivers. I also have not used the android SDK.
Also, in the third post chris eckman posted a link to some sort of Galaxy Tab drivers on samsung's site, which is now a broken link.
Anyways, while I'm a noob to the XDA community, I am a computer engineer, and I'm confident I won't have any trouble recovering this device. There's just so much conflicting information and alternatives methods that I'm not sure how to proceed.
It seems like a tutorial might exist out there that I have not yet found?
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Clyde_Frog said:
Hey guys,
So I have one of the Limited Edition Google IO Galaxy Tab 10.1's and I can't find a more updated thread than this. It seems this problem is isolated or mostly isolated to the Limited Edition tabs?
Anyways, I've read through the thread (as well as many other resources) and I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do to defeat the boot loop problem.
For me, pressing the Power and Volume up button (or Power and Volume down button) doesn't do a thing. The tablet does not respond at all. The only thing other than the boot loop is that I can get it into "upload mode" whatever that is.
This thread doesn't mention upload mode, so I don't know how to proceed. I can't seem to find anything in the manual about this sort of hard reset, nor can I find any information anywhere else.
Also, I've read this thread, and I do not have any familiarity with what the following software projects are: Odin, PDAnet, and APX Drivers. I also have not used the android SDK.
Also, in the third post chris eckman posted a link to some sort of Galaxy Tab drivers on samsung's site, which is now a broken link.
Anyways, while I'm a noob to the XDA community, I am a computer engineer, and I'm confident I won't have any trouble recovering this device. There's just so much conflicting information and alternatives methods that I'm not sure how to proceed.
It seems like a tutorial might exist out there that I have not yet found?
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Ok, well if you are running a "stock" IO bootloader, then you should have fastboot and download modes accessible to you by using the volume down and power button combo.
Have you ever gotten to this menu before? If not, then you just aren't doing it right. Let go of the power button part of this combo once the samsung logo appears, and then you should see two icons appear. If you have an IO bootloader, then you are going to go into fastboot mode, and then use fastboot to get your recovery booted. Once you get CWM booted, you can flash a stock ROM, load up stock recovery and wipe this sucker back to factory, and then fastboot your CWM recovery and install Task650's latest rom and be bootloop free. Let me know if you need further help.
Alright, first things first. Yes, this tablet is 100% stock, and I've done one major Android update, but it was not the one that broke everyone's wireless.
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So going step by step:
you should have fastboot and download modes accessible to you by using the volume down and power button combo. Have you ever gotten to this menu before?
So, I did once get to what I believe was the "fastboot" menu. I had four options available to me, the first one was something like "repair boot process" which I selected, because I was having a boot problem. It did nothing, and now I cannot get back to that menu.
I did get to the USB upload screen once by accident, when I was trying to get back to the boot menu, but not knowing what to do at that point. I had to shut it off.
Let go of the power button part of this combo once the samsung logo appears, and then you should see two icons appear.
Which Samsung logo? If I press both the power button and volume up or down, I get nothing. Nothing happens. If I press the power button first and then two seconds later start holding down the volume button, then eventually I get the blue swirly samsung screen. At the end of that, the samsung logo is clear. But waiting a bit longer, after about 30 seconds of blank screen, a pulsing white Samsung logo comes up, and I've never known which samsung logo to stop holding the power button. I believe I've tried every combination imaginable, and none of them work.
If you have an IO bootloader Do you mean Google I/O Stock bootloader? If not, I have no idea what this is in reference to.
Once you get CWM booted No idea what that is.
you can flash a stock ROM Where do I get that?
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My bootloop might be different from everyone else's. Everyone else says "shut off the device, and then turn it on with the volume down/up held down. The problem with mine is that it NEVER shuts off! So, I can only do about 2 tests per day, because the only way I can shut it off is to let the battery run dead.
Mine switches from boot loop, and if I force that off, by holding down the power button for 10-15 seconds, then it immediately boots back up into "going into upload mode, cause unknown" If I force that screen off, it boots into the boot loop, so I can never boot from a "powered off" mode, again, unless I let the battery run dead.
I've tried every button pressing boot sequence I can think of with no luck. Can't I just upload something to the device in "upload mode" ? I don't need any data off this device, I just want it to be reset back to day 1, so that I can turn it on and use it.
Thanks so much for your help. As you might imagine, this is a very frustrating problem.
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can someone please help me ,i have a samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1 ,and its on boot loop ,always showing smsung galaxy tab 2 logo,i've tried restoring factory settings ,,didn't work ,i tried to install receovery from internal sd card says not found ,some one pleeaaase send me the steps of what to do
I unlocked my phone with the htc method. I had root, and superuser. titanium backup worked fine. I made a nandroid backup before I started messing with ROMS. I decided to flash infected's ROM first. Everything seemed to be going ok. It rebooted, and I got the cool beats animation. Then I got the htc splashscreen. then it just flipped back and forth between them for a half hour or so. something was obviously wrong. I tried rebooting the phone: same results. I can get into bootloader, both by holding volume down while powering up, and through the command prompt, via adb. I have a nandroid backup through twrp recovery, so no problem, right? well, it didn't work. So now, I can boot into the bootloader screen, but nothing else. I tried flashing a different ROM, but to no avail. Eventually, I noticed that I had htc sync running while I did all this. Did that wreck me? Any ideas what I can do now? I just tried to restore my nadroid backup again, without htc sync running, but all I get is a white htc screen. Please help me unbrick my phone!!!
whenever I try to flash ANY other rom, I get to the part where I have to use fastboot to flash the boot.img, and it says "sending boot" and just stays there forever.
Tried flashinf recovery.img, and the same thing happens. "sending recovery" and screen pause
God I hope someone smarter than me feels generous enough to help here...
Are you on windows? Did you install htc drivers?
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I am on windows 7, and I have the htc drivers installed. Like I said, I successfully completed the htc unlock method. I had no problems until I tried to flash a rom
So you hold volume down and power to enter fastboot. Select fastboot by hitting power again. Then plugin usb and it should say fastboot usb. Then what command do you type after that?
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now it wont even go into hboot. not with vol down and power, or through command prompt. before, it was going into hboot just fine, and I was using fastboot flash boot boot.img to flash the rom, but everything froze
now when I plug it in and use the command prompt to enter adb reboot bootloader, it just says device not found. holding power and vol does nothing
Hmmm.. Not sure why you can't get into fastboot but your using the wrong command. You want to type fastboot boot recovery.img. Recovery being the name of the recovery image in your folder.
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thanks. I'll try that if I can get back into the bootloader
What you did works for that only installs the kernel. Then you need to flash the rom. I never did it that way nor do I use twrp
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I did flash the rom.zip from twrp recovery. when it rebooted, it started to work, then just went into a boot loop. then I started trying to fix it, now it wont even come on
For now, I'm hoping that the battery just discharged during the process. I'm gonna let it charge for a few hours, and see what happens. I'm afraid that I might have done a battery pull in the middle of the process, though. When I first flashed the InfectedROM, the phone rebooted and got stuck in a loop between the beats graphics, and the htc quietly brilliant screen. it just kept going from one to the other. It went on for quite a while, and eventually, I think I pulled the battery to stop it. However, I was still able to get into the bootloader after this. I tried to reflash the rom, and a couple of others to no avail. When I decided to try to reflash recovery.img, is when it hit the fan, so to speak. after that, I was unable to boot into fastboot, or even get adb to recognize that there was a device there at all. Man, I hope letting the battery charge works. Like a moron, I don't have any insurance on my phone.
when I plug it in, windows intermittently makes the gong noise that something is connecting or disconnecting, and windows explorer briefly recognizes that a removeable drive is present, but I can't get the thing to charge, or turn on at all, and adb refuses to recognize that it connected, so I still cant manually put it into fastboot
well, I left the phone plugged in for about 7 hours. I hooked it up to the computer and once again tried to get into bootloader through adb. The computer said that the "daemon was started successfully" then goes right back to device not found. I guess Im screwed if no one else knows any tricks or ideas..
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well, I left the phone plugged in for about 7 hours. I hooked it up to the computer and once again tried to get into bootloader through adb. The computer said that the "daemon was started successfully" then goes right back to device not found. I guess Im screwed if no one else knows any tricks or ideas..
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Pull the battery
Wait 2 minutes.
Put battery back in.
Hold down Vol - and power.
Do not be connected to anything. And are you SURE your battery is good?
PM me if you see this and I dont answer.
I pulled the battery and waited. I even grabbed the battery out of my girl's evo3d. I can get into bootloader via the vol down, and power, but it stopas and asks if I want to update. If I say no, it just reboots to the htc screen. If I say yes, it says updating, then says press power to reboot. Then it goes directly to the htc screen and freezes. While it's in the htc screen, I can use command prompt to get it back into bootloader via the "adb reboot bootloader" command, but I can't get to my recovery menu. I was going to mount usb storage, and put another rom on the sd card, then re-flash, but it won't allow me to get to recovery
izzy spun said:
I pulled the battery and waited. I even grabbed the battery out of my girl's evo3d. I can get into bootloader via the vol down, and power, but it stopas and asks if I want to update. If I say no, it just reboots to the htc screen. If I say yes, it says updating, then says press power to reboot. Then it goes directly to the htc screen and freezes. While it's in the htc screen, I can use command prompt to get it back into bootloader via the "adb reboot bootloader" command, but I can't get to my recovery menu. I was going to mount usb storage, and put another rom on the sd card, then re-flash, but it won't allow me to get to recovery
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Ok, soundslike you have a "PG86IMG.ZIP" on the root of your SD card. Dont worry, just swap cards with your old lady but put the ROM on it first.
You wont be able to do anything until you swap Sd cards or otherwise delete the PG86IMG.zip.
when I use command prompt to enter bootloader, I get the opening menu: bootloader, reboot, reboot booloader, and power down. If I press power to choose booloader rather than fastboot, the phone immediately goes back to asking me if I want to update, and no matter what I choose, the results are the same. it reboots to the htc screen
Yesterday, battery was at 70% when I headed out. Phone wouldn't boot when I tried it later so I assumed battery died.
Put it on charger and it went to green quicker than expected but still wouldn't boot.
PWR Vol- wouldn't go to bootloader
Went home and connected to PC with ADB, adb devices showed me in recovery, screen stayed off. Issues an adb reboot command litt the screen briefly to the white background green HTC but went back to dark.
Issuing adb reboot-boorloader did bring me to bootloader screen but it wouldn't stay there.
Saw notes that my recovery may have been hosed. so tried to re-push cwm with fastboot flash recovery c:\reco.img (renamed cwm to reco.img)
I don't recall my prompt responses. I'm hoping that along the way I didn't flash recover to boot or vice versa. I think I have may have flubbed one of the commands along the way.
Anyway at this point the 3 button boot does nothing, nor does pwr vol - not does it appear via usb as a device on 2 separate pc's with frresh driver installs and fresh sdk installs.
I have dropped pc86img.zip in the root of the sdcard now just in case i get it to boot.
The usb port is being sorta wonky with my red light coming on only intermittently and I now have to wiggle carefully.
I had been running current rev of viper rom. hadn't touched kernel or poked the phone in naughty places for weeks.
Running RUU exe doesn't detect phone either.
Now for the conspiracy part, has anyone else noticed a few more postings of this ilk in recent days? I may now be paying more attention to 'I'm bricked' postings than normal but it feels like there are other similar stories of unexplained malfunctions. I'm not saying sprint or htc pushed something but maybe an update in apps that many of us rooted users have in common?
When boot key combinations do nothing, doesn't show in adb with usb connected and it won't boot is one truly "bricked?"
I'll head to sprint to diagnose usb connector. If that is the issue, I'll reflash to stock and revert to s-on. I don't feel that anything I've done recently contributed to the death f the phone. No OC or under volting.
thermbug said:
Yesterday, battery was at 70% when I headed out. Phone wouldn't boot when I tried it later so I assumed battery died.
Put it on charger and it went to green quicker than expected but still wouldn't boot.
PWR Vol- wouldn't go to bootloader
Went home and connected to PC with ADB, adb devices showed me in recovery, screen stayed off. Issues an adb reboot command litt the screen briefly to the white background green HTC but went back to dark.
Issuing adb reboot-boorloader did bring me to bootloader screen but it wouldn't stay there.
Saw notes that my recovery may have been hosed. so tried to re-push cwm with fastboot flash recovery c:\reco.img (renamed cwm to reco.img)
I don't recall my prompt responses. I'm hoping that along the way I didn't flash recover to boot or vice versa. I think I have may have flubbed one of the commands along the way.
Anyway at this point the 3 button boot does nothing, nor does pwr vol - not does it appear via usb as a device on 2 separate pc's with frresh driver installs and fresh sdk installs.
I have dropped pc86img.zip in the root of the sdcard now just in case i get it to boot.
The usb port is being sorta wonky with my red light coming on only intermittently and I now have to wiggle carefully.
I had been running current rev of viper rom. hadn't touched kernel or poked the phone in naughty places for weeks.
Running RUU exe doesn't detect phone either.
Now for the conspiracy part, has anyone else noticed a few more postings of this ilk in recent days? I may now be paying more attention to 'I'm bricked' postings than normal but it feels like there are other similar stories of unexplained malfunctions. I'm not saying sprint or htc pushed something but maybe an update in apps that many of us rooted users have in common?
When boot key combinations do nothing, doesn't show in adb with usb connected and it won't boot is one truly "bricked?"
I'll head to sprint to diagnose usb connector. If that is the issue, I'll reflash to stock and revert to s-on. I don't feel that anything I've done recently contributed to the death f the phone. No OC or under volting.
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If you can get into hboot you arn't bricked.. Tho you usb port may be dicked like a broken part..
I would try to go stock for the hell of it.. I haven't had any issues.. I have in the past hung my phone locked it and dicked sense up.. But a battery pull always helped get back into hboot
So I wonder what is going on with yours.
Have you tried using a different usb cable ?? Or pluggin the phone in and let it charge over night ??
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
thermbug said:
Yesterday, battery was at 70% when I headed out. Phone wouldn't boot when I tried it later so I assumed battery died.
Put it on charger and it went to green quicker than expected but still wouldn't boot.
PWR Vol- wouldn't go to bootloader
Went home and connected to PC with ADB, adb devices showed me in recovery, screen stayed off. Issues an adb reboot command litt the screen briefly to the white background green HTC but went back to dark.
Issuing adb reboot-boorloader did bring me to bootloader screen but it wouldn't stay there.
Saw notes that my recovery may have been hosed. so tried to re-push cwm with fastboot flash recovery c:\reco.img (renamed cwm to reco.img)
I don't recall my prompt responses. I'm hoping that along the way I didn't flash recover to boot or vice versa. I think I have may have flubbed one of the commands along the way.
Anyway at this point the 3 button boot does nothing, nor does pwr vol - not does it appear via usb as a device on 2 separate pc's with frresh driver installs and fresh sdk installs.
I have dropped pc86img.zip in the root of the sdcard now just in case i get it to boot.
The usb port is being sorta wonky with my red light coming on only intermittently and I now have to wiggle carefully.
I had been running current rev of viper rom. hadn't touched kernel or poked the phone in naughty places for weeks.
Running RUU exe doesn't detect phone either.
Now for the conspiracy part, has anyone else noticed a few more postings of this ilk in recent days? I may now be paying more attention to 'I'm bricked' postings than normal but it feels like there are other similar stories of unexplained malfunctions. I'm not saying sprint or htc pushed something but maybe an update in apps that many of us rooted users have in common?
When boot key combinations do nothing, doesn't show in adb with usb connected and it won't boot is one truly "bricked?"
I'll head to sprint to diagnose usb connector. If that is the issue, I'll reflash to stock and revert to s-on. I don't feel that anything I've done recently contributed to the death f the phone. No OC or under volting.
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youre not bricked... you get into hboot fine... its running that you have a problem with so we go tier up...the eMMC of it all...there is a post by unknownforce that is for downgrading hboot 1.5 to .14 or less but follow those directions to the T and it willrewrite everything in there and then if you choose to do so you caqn update to hboot 1.5 and the new RUU and all from there
Can't get into hboot anymore.
can't get into hboot anymore, and if I'm s-off I can't run the process.
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can't get into hboot anymore, and if I'm s-off I can't run the process.
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Well flashing anything important via usb cable when you don't have a solid connection is a very bad idea, it's quite possible that you are bricked if your phone literally won't even turn the screen on. You can try going to the hboot downgrade thread (I personally bricked my phone while flashing an experimental ROM, and I recovered everything by using step 3 ONLY in the hboot downgrade thread), but I wouldn't try doing anything until you get that usb port on your phone fixed...it shouldn't have any "wiggle room" when the usb cable is plugged in
Edit: if you get a charging light when your phone is plugged in, you're probably not bricked. I never once saw a charge light when I was bricked
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Well flashing anything important via usb cable when you don't have a solid connection is a very bad idea, it's quite possible that you are bricked if your phone literally won't even turn the screen on. You can try going to the hboot downgrade thread (I personally bricked my phone while flashing an experimental ROM, and I recovered everything by using step 3 ONLY in the hboot downgrade thread), but I wouldn't try doing anything until you get that usb port on your phone fixed...it shouldn't have any "wiggle room" when the usb cable is plugged in
Edit: if you get a charging light when your phone is plugged in, you're probably not bricked. I never once saw a charge light when I was bricked
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A slight wiggle is alright. If your led light is coming on and off then somethin is broke.
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Try taking the battery out for a few hours and letting the phone rest. This worked somehow for a few users.
Recently my DNA has been getting laggy and restarting occasionally, and yesterday after sending a simple text message it decided to enter a reboot-loop that I think is probably fatal.
When I plug it in to any power, it turns on, shows the white/green HTC screen, and then immediately shuts down, and repeats the cycle. I have not been able to get it to turn off (while on power), and cannot turn it on (even into the loop) while off power. HOWEVER, I CAN use the vol - shortcut to get to the bootloader screen BUT I cannot select anything, as it immediately shuts down when I try to do something.
My DNA is running the latest stock software (OTA from Verizon, i think 4.4.2), and i have not modified it (S-ON, unrooted etc...).
Any and all help would be appreciated!
Bonus: on the 95% chance it is dead, should i go moto x/droid turbo or stick with a *gasp* iphone 5 for 2 months until gs6/htc m9?
androidnj7 said:
Recently my DNA has been getting laggy and restarting occasionally, and yesterday after sending a simple text message it decided to enter a reboot-loop that I think is probably fatal.
When I plug it in to any power, it turns on, shows the white/green HTC screen, and then immediately shuts down, and repeats the cycle. I have not been able to get it to turn off (while on power), and cannot turn it on (even into the loop) while off power. HOWEVER, I CAN use the vol - shortcut to get to the bootloader screen BUT I cannot select anything, as it immediately shuts down when I try to do something.
My DNA is running the latest stock software (OTA from Verizon, i think 4.4.2), and i have not modified it (S-ON, unrooted etc...).
Any and all help would be appreciated!
Bonus: on the 95% chance it is dead, should i go moto x/droid turbo or stick with a *gasp* iphone 5 for 2 months until gs6/htc m9?
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At any point can you get it to answer
Fastboot devices
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dottat said:
At any point can you get it to answer
Fastboot devices
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I can not get it to receive any signals from me in the bootloader as it shuts down immediately. I tried connecting it to my computer for use with adb, but fastboot WAS enabled and developer tools were DISABLED (i think), plus it cannot keep a constant connection, so that wasn't working.
After doing some research I think I can save it IF I can get it to a stable state from the one it is currently in, and then using the bootloader screen to do a factory reset ( or use
"adb reboot recovery"), but like I said that is depenednet on getting it to stop the boot loop.
I also tried doing something called an RUU (I have limited knowledge of this, i sued the dottat one), but since it cannot establish a constant connection, it did not work.
Im open to any suggestions at this point! Thanks
I seem to have posted my reply in haste.
I have installed the "minimal adb and fastboot" tool that was suggested for basic fastboot use. Fastboot will not recognize it when I use "fastboot devices".
I did install the HTC drivers a while ago, but I suspect they may not work, could that be the issue? I am running win 8.1.
Thanks
androidnj7 said:
I seem to have posted my reply in haste.
I have installed the "minimal adb and fastboot" tool that was suggested for basic fastboot use. Fastboot will not recognize it when I use "fastboot devices".
I did install the HTC drivers a while ago, but I suspect they may not work, could that be the issue? I am running win 8.1.
Thanks
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Possibly. What does the device show up as in device manager?
dottat said:
Possibly. What does the device show up as in device manager?
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For the 5-10 seconds its "on" every cycle, it shows up as a CD Drive (not the HTC6435 etc etc that it usually does)
androidnj7 said:
For the 5-10 seconds its "on" every cycle, it shows up as a CD Drive (not the HTC6435 etc etc that it usually does)
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Hold volume up and power until the screen flickers and immediately switch to volume down only. Get it right and you will land in boot loader. Need boot loader to show fastboot usb
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Hold volume up and power until the screen flickers and immediately switch to volume down only. Get it right and you will land in boot loader. Need boot loader to show fastboot usb
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Yes I have gotten into the bootloader before but as soon as it shows up (and i try to select using the vol +/-) it shuts down and restarts right away. Basically, I cant even get the bootloader in a stable state.
androidnj7 said:
Yes I have gotten into the bootloader before but as soon as it shows up (and i try to select using the vol +/-) it shuts down and restarts right away. Basically, I cant even get the bootloader in a stable state.
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Fastboot usb is going to be your only option. If you aren't able to stay there it's hardware. Any chance a button is stuck?
dottat said:
Fastboot usb is going to be your only option. If you aren't able to stay there it's hardware. Any chance a button is stuck?
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You are right unfortunately, I can absolutley not stay in the bootloader with any sort of stability. I read on another thread that opening it up and disconnecting the battery from the motherboard would help, so thats what I did. As soon as I sealed it back up, the reboot-loop started right up again. My guess is that the motherboard is fried, its either that or the battery is holding no charge whatsoever.
If the board is fried, im done right?
if its the battery, is there any way to manually charge not going through the board?
Thanks for all your help btw!
Hi. My sons HDX is stuck in fastboot mode. Amazon support only offered him a discount to replace it. I thought maybe I could do something to wake it up or reflash it but from what I'm reading this is a difficult device. I have been able to get it to respond to the fastboot reboot command in linux but nothing else. This device has never been rooted/flashed/modded and I don't know how it got this way. Is there anything I can do at this point besides throw it away?
Thanks.
when you are at the fastboot screen...
press the power button for 10-20 sec. and it will shut down...
than try to power it on again.... (try it with unplugged usb)
maybe this helps...
If possible, I would unlock the bootloader and then try this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22077057&postcount=11
This device has never been rooted/flashed/modded and I don't know how it got this way.
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Just thought this means the HDX is on 4.5.2(3)
thanks for the responses. I have tried rebooting the device many times with or without usb plugged in. I've held the power button for 25 seconds until it starts rebooting again. It always boots to a gray kindle fire logo and says fastboot. I've tried the fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000 command but it says the hw is locked. From what Ive read, the bootloader cant be unlocked right?
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From what Ive read, the bootloader cant be unlocked right?
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Do you recall the firmware level (eg: 3.2.6; 4.5.2)?
Edit: After shutting down (completely off) have you tried power+volume up to access Amazon's crippled recovery? From there you might be able to initiate a factory reset.
i have tried to power it on with different button combinations. I can only get to the same fastboot screen.
oh and I have no idea what firmware it was on.
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i have tried to power it on with different button combinations. I can only get to the same fastboot screen.
oh and I have no idea what firmware it was on.
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Yeah, it was a long shot. At this point you may be hosed unless someone knows of a way to recover in fastboot given the state of your device (locked, unrooted, version unknown). Might want to try Amazon again. A different rep may be more accommodating. Sorry, mate.