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so i tried to flash the full rooted ruu rom via hboot, i had it sitting on my table with the batt door off and knocked it on the floor ( accident ofcourse ) and the batt came out halfway during the process so now it goes into the htc screen then blank htc screen then blank and i cant get into cwr so my question is can i salvage it or am i f**ked?
Have you tried hbooting to recovery? Volume up and power down when the phone boots up.
cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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eh im done with the tbolt, i took it to a wireless repair place here in slc and the tech guy gave me 100 for it for parts so im goin back to my dx and im much happier!! but thanks for the advice and help!!
Wow glad everyone doesn't give up that easy or we would never get any roms or root =P
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Feel good thread of the year! Or it could be the beer I just had.
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i wouldnt say i gave up way easy, i know i could have fixed it but im just not into the tbolt anymore!!
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
For some it's a good idea to have insurance too.
You can get a replacement minus the deductible if you "lose" your phone.
Just make certain you call VZW as soon as you lose it.
I don't suggest selling the phone for parts and saying it's lost, but I'm sure others have done this to cover their deductible.
Those without insurance...I have heard people have had great success with warranty replacement when using over the phone support when the phone doesn't boot or bootloops.
Since you send the phone back to VZW by mail, their replacement standards are much lower than dealing with their retail and face to face support.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
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I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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jaymccoubrey said:
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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Your the reason Verizon hates rooters you are wasting there money on a device that is out of warranty because you would rather send it back than fix it yourself.
Thanks, jerk.
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F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Nonetheless YOU damaged ur phone so it really doesn't matter how long you spent trying to repair it...
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hjborder said:
I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
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I believe you could start with os kitchen or another UI for extracting certain parts of a rom. I think in large part its knowing java script.
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F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Hey Chevy I crashed my car into a tree and now it doesn't work. Oh dont worry I spent hours trying to fix it with no luck. So yea go ahead and give me a new one don't worry its still under warranty.
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Hey everyone. After I bricked my phone, I did the steps to unbrick it, and it worked out. I then got it s-off. but now it says that my sd card is blank! what should I do?
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Hopefully u saved every thing you wanted off of there before u did the s-off thing. Only way I got to reuse the sd card was to reformat it using a pc.
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i know that some peoples sdcard got erased.. dont know why but its happens to some people that run lazy panda s-off.. i got lucky mine ran great and sdcard was fine.. luckly
Lazypanda softbricked my phone and sdcard was unreadable. When I retried the panda using the same sdcard the data was restored.
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I'm having same issue. I achieved S-off but now sdcard is unreadable. I would really want to restore it cause I have a lot of pics and stuff in there. I forgot to backup before doing the process. Any other suggestions or instructions??
Edit- I did try running the Panda again but all it says is that im already S-off so it doesnt do anything.
That sucks. I put a blank sd card in before hand, because the first page stated 'backup your card because all data could be lost'. Hopefully you did that. I had to reformat the card part way through, but then it all worked.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
Always read the op....
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That sucks. I put a blank sd card in before hand, because the first page stated 'backup your card because all data could be lost'. Hopefully you did that. I had to reformat the card part way through, but then it all worked.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
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Unfortunately I didnt think of doing that in the first place. SMH. If I would've, I would've saved myself this headache...
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Always read the op....
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I've learned the hard way...
s4audi said:
Unfortunately I didnt think of doing that in the first place. SMH. If I would've, I would've saved myself this headache...
I've learned the hard way...
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It is worth trying a tool like Recuva or if you really are serious about resurrecting your stuff, TestDisk. Both are free, both are for Windows.
Another good idea, for the future, is backup all your pictures to dropbox. We got 25 gb for free, might as well use it. The instant upload feature makes it easy.
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I downloaded a trusted AIO Kit but everytime I do a MD5 sum check with the one I installed from Cnet for my pc it keeps giving me the incorrect MD5 than the one given, I just don't know how to proceed cuz I know that much if wrong one stop and don't continue also I downloaded it 3 times and ran it same results??:crying:
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If at first you don't succeed. Try and try again.
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If at first you don't succeed. Try and try again.
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Its really odd cuz on my pc it kept happening with several md5 checkers but when I downloaded it on my phone and ran an md5 checker it came up exactly so whatever lol and a bit off topic for this post, is there some way of dragging/pulling an app off my stock phone before I root it so I don't loose it and I have ES File Manager but yes no root as of now will have root and s-off today just don't want to loose 'Cyberon EN Voice'?
Try a different md5 checker, your phone and cmd on windows work fine or the aio may be a different build from the posted md5.
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Try a different md5 checker, your phone and cmd on windows work fine or the aio may be a different build from the posted md5.
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Yeah I'm good with all that now and rooted but when I use the Junebear (sorry for misspelling) AIO Kit and follow all instructions it won't finish mainly cuz I don't have a spare sd card but thought that was optional, I had the back off and wires ready just couldn't get that far
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Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....
Backing up......
Error: No microSD card detected
Transferring backups....
Secondary backup FAILED!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
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Yeah I'm good with all that now and rooted but when I use the Junebear (sorry for misspelling) AIO Kit and follow all instructions it won't finish mainly cuz I don't have a spare sd card but thought that was optional, I had the back off and wires ready just couldn't get that far
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Starting up......
Connecting to device...
Searching device.....
Found device.....
Backing up......
Error: No microSD card detected
Transferring backups....
Secondary backup FAILED!!
Press ENTER to exit.....
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The files needed to run the exploit are placed on the sd card, so don't you have an sd card at all? It doesn't format your sd card like it says it will, that's just a heads up just in case it does, so far it's yet to be formatted for me.
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The files needed to run the exploit are placed on the sd card, so don't you have an sd card at all? It doesn't format your sd card like it says it will, that's just a heads up just in case it does, so far it's yet to be formatted for me.
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No I don't so I'll have to pick one up, do u have a clue on how much just the size needed would cost and u can tell me in any money format cuz I have ConvertPad Plus lol. Sorry one last question and I know this isn't the place for questions but do I need an insecure kennel also where the heck is that found lol
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No I don't so I'll have to pick one up, do u have a clue on how much just the size needed would cost and u can tell me in any money format cuz I have ConvertPad Plus lol. Sorry one last question and I know this isn't the place for questions but do I need an insecure kennel also where the heck is that found lol
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This is q&a, so yeah, all questions are relevant here, no you don't need a secure kernel, you just need an unlocked bootloader, adb debugging and root.
A mere 256mb sdcard would be fine, but seriously, get yourself something decent, you can get an 8GB card for like 10 bucks or something, I have no clue what your currency is since you didn't mention it, but I'm using USD standard.
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This is q&a, so yeah, all questions are relevant here, no you don't need a secure kernel, you just need an unlocked bootloader, adb debugging and root.
A mere 256mb sdcard would be fine, but seriously, get yourself something decent, you can get an 8GB card for like 10 bucks or something, I have no clue what your currency is since you didn't mention it, but I'm using USD standard.
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That's great news cuz I have all that done and I called Wal-Mart here in Canada and yep, $10/8gb and thanks a million DN.:thumbup::beer:
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That's great news cuz I have all that done and I called Wal-Mart here in Canada and yep, $10/8gb and thanks a million DN.:thumbup::beer:
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No prob, if you had asked this question a week or so ago I could've given you an sd card myself when I was in Canada, , lol.
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No prob, if you had asked this question a week or so ago I could've given you an sd card myself when I was in Canada, , lol.
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Where did u go, I'm right across the drink from Detroit Michigan
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Where did u go, I'm right across the drink from Detroit Michigan
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I was more in the scarborough/ajax/north york/pickering areas, right up from New York, sounds like waaaaay off from where you're at though, lol.
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I was more in the scarborough/ajax/north york/pickering areas, right up from New York, sounds like waaaaay off from where you're at though, lol.
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Oh yeah about 5hrs if I drive in a Boss Mustang lol, u have Canadian family or all business
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Oh yeah about 5hrs if I drive in a Boss Mustang lol, u have Canadian family or all business
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Family and my girl lives there, Canada is my vacation spot, I leave all my business related crap in the U.S., Canada is to relax and party. , though the party life ends so damn early, but eh, lol.
Lost 2,000+ pics when I rooted because the idiot who made the video didn't mention that your internal sd card gets wiped. Don't want it happening every time I flash a new rom.
(this is the first phone that I have had that doesn't have an external sd card.)
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Lost 2,000+ pics when I rooted because the idiot who made the video didn't mention that your internal sd card gets wiped. Don't want it happening every time I flash a new rom.
(this is the first phone that I have had that doesn't have an external sd card.)
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Name calling is useless. You shouldn't hold someone responsible for what happens when YOU tamper with YOUR device.
That being said, no. A factory reset does not wipe internal storage
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Try using recuva, you may be able to get some of the pictures back
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Name calling is useless. You shouldn't hold someone responsible for what happens when YOU tamper with YOUR device.
That being said, no. A factory reset does not wipe internal storage
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I agree but just so fkn frustrated that I lost 2000+ pics. In the video he even mentioned "oh yeah, I should have mentioned that it wipes everything" after it happened. Well then, edit your video and mention it in the beginning mofo!!
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Try using recuva, you may be able to get some of the pictures back
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Tried or my friend. No luck
Thanks thou. To the both of you.
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I agree but just so fkn frustrated that I lost 2000+ pics. In the video he even mentioned "oh yeah, I should have mentioned that it wipes everything" after it happened. Well then, edit your video and mention it in the beginning mofo!!
Thanks thou. To the both of you.
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Or you could of read one of the 1000 disclaimers that HTC gives you during the process saying that it will wipe your phone.
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By reading the instructions and watching the videos FIRST, you probably would have caught that. Just sayin.
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Even if you didn't know, doesn't everyone around these forums backup anything and everything? Lol
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I'm assuming that now at least, you backup your photo's?
I wouldn't dream of doing anything to my phone that could brick it if messed up, with my only copy of important stuff on it.
That's just an accident waiting to happen.
To everyone above:
I've been rooting and flashing roms since 2008. I'm fully aware of what happens. This was just my first phone without an SD Card do that's why u was caught off guard. I wasn't aware that it even wipes the internal memory.
That's why the person who makes a GUIDE should mention it. This was probably the worst "guide" every made. I've even made guides before and mention everything important.
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To everyone above:
I've been rooting and flashing roms since 2008. I'm fully aware of what happens. This was just my first phone without an SD Card do that's why u was caught off guard. I wasn't aware that it even wipes the internal memory.
That's why the person who makes a GUIDE should mention it. This was probably the worst "guide" every made. I've even made guides before and mention everything important.
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God, I wish there was a way to downvote your post. Its your phone, you read non of the disclaimers that HTC gave you and didn't even watch the guide through before you did it. You blindly went through a process which tells you multiple times that it will wipe your data, and you didn't back it up.
The guy who made the video owes you nothing, he didn't have to make it and you didn't have to follow it.
Loosing your pictures is your fault, no one else's.
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arozer said:
To everyone above:
I've been rooting and flashing roms since 2008. I'm fully aware of what happens. This was just my first phone without an SD Card do that's why u was caught off guard. I wasn't aware that it even wipes the internal memory.
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There is no excuse for ignorance.
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I know exactly the video guide you're talking about. I remember thinking that he should have put a warning at the beginning too, but luckily I didn't lose anything important.
Sorry, I'm afraid your pictures are gone forever unless you can get lucky with some "un-deleting" software.
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I went to update to beans build 17 and i might have had a bad download.says unable to open zip.i made a nandroid but some how wiped it out that i can't restore it.So now i have no OS.Iredownloaded another mirror on my laptop but how do i put it on my sd card now that im stuck in twrp?i just need my phone up and running asap as i have to go to work in2hrs!?Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!THANKS
i did the same thing you can either do a adb push if you have adb set up or find another phone camera pc or anything really that has a micro sd slot that you can connect to pc drag zip there reboot into twrp and your good if you don't have one then i would say adb push is your only option or see if twrp will mount your sd but it didn't for me
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I went to update to beans build 17 and i might have had a bad download.says unable to open zip.i made a nandroid but some how wiped it out that i can't restore it.So now i have no OS.Iredownloaded another mirror on my laptop but how do i put it on my sd card now that im stuck in twrp?i just need my phone up and running asap as i have to go to work in2hrs!?Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!THANKS
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Bfitz26 said:
i did the same thing you can either do a adb push if you have adb set up or find another phone camera pc or anything really that has a micro sd slot that you can connect to pc drag zip there reboot into twrp and your good if you don't have one then i would say adb push is your only option or see if twrp will mount your sd but it didn't for me
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Thanks.Im tryin to find someonethat has a phone to do that now !!thank u.if not i will look to see how to try the push thing!
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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do u have a digital camera or a card reader or anything that has a micro sd slot for that matter
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do u have a digital camera or a card reader or anything that has a micro sd slot for that matter
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Not at th emoment.im working on it !lol
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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Usually they will have a fake card in them to keep the slot from getting dust in it. If you truly don't have one you can pick up a USB SD card reader from walmart for cheap. If you want dont want to go that route then ADB would probably be the fastest way of doing it.
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shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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I honestly don't remember the last time I checked md5. I only check them on radios. A bad rom file cannot hard brick your phone. But a modem can
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I finally got some time to say thank u all for the ideas and info! I'm happy to say all is good. Used my friends phone with my sd card and redownloaded the room and it worked perfect! What a relief!Thanks again! !
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I honestly don't remember the last time I checked md5. I only check them on radios. A bad rom file cannot hard brick your phone. But a modem can
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A bad rom download hard bricked quite a few VZW S3's when I was using the S3, they may not brick the N2 but they have been known to brick phones.
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I am not sure how that is possible in my experience it says failed. Redownload flash problem solved indoor have force check md5 tho
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I am not sure how that is possible in my experience it says failed. Redownload flash problem solved indoor have force check md5 tho
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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exactly.
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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Maybe they flashed on Odin haha
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shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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I haven't checked an MD5 since 2010 - did it once then.
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shangrila500 said:
That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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We're also going off what they say in the thread. We can't prove that is what did it. I'm trying to be nice, but most of those "oh shhh" panic threads are due to user error.
I've flashed so many ROMs over the years and I never check MD5. I also religiously dirty-flash. I've bricked phones half-asleep (putting my kid to sleep) and recovered them in the morning. It all boils down to the user. I'm not saying for people to be reckless, but blaming not checking an MD5 on a brick is fear-mongering.
If it doesn't flash the first time? Check to see if your recovery has an update. Redownload ROM. Try again. Fail twice? Wasn't meant to be, this is not the ROM you are looking for.
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shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Agreed, as that would be the easiest fix. Worst case scenario for this approach is that you may need to buy a usb reader for micro sd cards.
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I haven't checked an MD5 since 2010 - did it once then.
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We're also going off what they say in the thread. We can't prove that is what did it. I'm trying to be nice, but most of those "oh shhh" panic threads are due to user error.
I've flashed so many ROMs over the years and I never check MD5. I also religiously dirty-flash. I've bricked phones half-asleep (putting my kid to sleep) and recovered them in the morning. It all boils down to the user. I'm not saying for people to be reckless, but blaming not checking an MD5 on a brick is fear-mongering.
If it doesn't flash the first time? Check to see if your recovery has an update. Redownload ROM. Try again. Fail twice? Wasn't meant to be, this is not the ROM you are looking for.
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Very true, I was just going off of my experience in the S3 threads and that was my first true experience with a truly bootloader unlocked phone, even though I had been flashing Motorola phones for years but that isn't the same, and from what me and a couple other people could put together on the S3 forums was that 2 AOSP roms were responsible for the hard bricks.
Like you said though it is very hard to tell if they even flashed the rom. Hell it could be that they were just lying because they were embarrassed. Nonetheless it is still for the best for people to check MD5s especially on radios and recoveries and it doesn't hurt to check it on roms. I check the MD5 of every rom that I flash or that I plan on flashing in the future just because of that happening in the S3 forums when I was helping there.
I had never really thought about them lying about it but that is a definite possibility..... It's still funny that it was one of 2 AOSP roms every time someone claimed to get bricked after only flashing a rom......
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