When I bought my HTC One it already had a custom rom installed.
It was some stock android 4.2.1 nexus but with chinese interface and alot of chinese apps and recovery etc were all chinese.
So I couldn't do **** with this and tried to removing it and getting it back to stock HTC one rom.
After alot of tutorials online on xda and many others I couldn't find one that was easy enough for me to make it happen.
It was also my first time with a HTC. Never done it via fastboot/commandprompt etc.
I'd like to add that I am on a MAC aswell It took me a while to find a tutorial via mac but mine simply did not accept those commandlines which worked in the tutorials.
Afterwards I tried flashing it via recovery by installing from SDcard. Which is probably quite the stupid thing to do but I was angry and didn't know any other options since everything failed.
After It started installing stock rom from SD card it was stuck at a screen with "No command" A lying dead android with a red triangle above him and there was one line: Install /sdcard..
I was hoping he would install it but he didn't do anything and got stuck there.
I couldn't restart, couldn't get back to recovery, to anything nothing worked.
I waited untill battery life was drained.
Which happened and after batterylife ended and I put him back on a charger nothing happends.
Phone wont turn on whatsoever.
When I put him on a charger the phone blinks real quick to a white screen and goes back to black screen and still doesnt start whatsoever.
How ****ed am I ?
Can I get rid of this?
Can I still install that stock ROM that I so badly want?
Thanks
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I just flashed the Frankin Final rom on my vibrant and all was going well until I rebooted it and now the damn thing seems to be in a boot loop of some sort, but this is different than all others I have seen cause it goes to the samsung screen like normal and then it goes to a totally different screen that is only half size and is jumbled up and not a damn thing is readable. When I plug in my USB to the computer not only is it seen by the computer but it goes to the battery icon and then back to that screwed up - half sized screen. Please someone help.
Go back into recovery and reflash the rom you had installed previously. Or do a nand backup. You did back it all up before you flashed v4 as you should have, right?
I do have it backed up from v3 but it wont even get recognized by adb nor odin. Its the strangest friggin boot loop I have ever seen. When the vibrant screen goes blank then the strange unreadable screen comes on for about 2 seconds and then the vibrant screen comes on and thats over and over. I do have a hardware locked phone so I guess I will have to screw with it when I get home. I did have it in download mode but now I can't even get it to that. Is that USB that came with the phone the only usb that can be used when getting into download mode as I had no troubles at home but I am using my USB from my nexus one at work and its all screwed up.
Did you mean DON'T have a hardware locked vibrant?
I got it about a 2 months ago so I don't know if its locked or not.
Heres what happened in detail.
I rebooted via Rom Manager into the stock recovery.
I installed packages as I have the clockworkmod recovery as update.zip in my 14G sd
I backed up my current Frankin ver3 rom
I erased all userdata and such like I should when flashing a new rom.
I installed the Frankin Final Update
I rebooted the phone like normal and the BAM.
A never ending boot loop that wont even get recognized by my computer.
I cant even plug it into charge as it won't stop bootlooping. the
battery charging icon comes up but then it goes to that funky ass
screen and back to the charging icon. when I unplug the charger it
switches to the Vibrant screen and then the messed up screen. I
really think its bricked as its gotta be the boot image that is
screwed up.
I am very sorry if I am wasting your time on this as I do know how to
properly flash a rom on a phone but this phone is not like my G1 nor
my Nexus. Its about as flaky as a phone can get in my opinion and had
I known it was this flaky I never wouldve gotten the damn thing. I
guess I am going to Tmobile and tellin them the OTA update did this as
there is no way in hell to tell. Not even the splash screen comes up.
Its really bricked.
I just wanted to say that this website and you all developers are the BEST people I have ever followed. This is the very first post I have made and I really do think I f--ked big time. No matter, what you all have done for the G1 and Nexus blows my mind. I never owned a iphone and never will and I think I might say the same about this vibrant. Getting the Nexus bricked is nearly impossible but this Vibrant is to damn confusing and with the lag fixes and crap that I am leary about goin to the store and replacing mine with a new one. Wish me luck.
You may want to try loading Eugene's Froyo Rom that does not brick. Once that is done, try and install Frankin Twiz.
I tried and when the computer won't even read the connection all is bricked. good news though, I went to the tmobile store last night and showed the guy what happened after a OTA Update. he was totally understanding about it. He said it was the white screen of death and that I will have another shipped out the following day. Thanks again for all your help and especially the moderator for putting up with my crap. You all are the bomb-diggity.
I always just boot into recovery and flash say Vibrant7 that always seems to work for me. From there I flash whatever other rom I want.
Recovery meaning
Hold down your Vol + and -
Push Power.
Actually I get scared that I might screw things up by entering recovery through clockwork ( laugh at that now huh) so I always went to the stock recovery and updated my packages with the clockwork recovery file that was named update.zip. I think I had a issue with my phone from the get go as it never would enter download mode unless I was connected to only my samsung charger and no others. I tell ya it was a strange phone and to top it all of the tmobile dude showed me a g2 they had in stock. Nice phone I tell ya but it ain't no Nexus one. Thanks again for all your help guys. Keep the little green dude alive.
Ok, so before the general populace of the forum, looks over this post thinking it's some noob who cant read through the forums to solve there own problem, i would like to say thanks in advance to anyone who can seriously provide some help.
Problem is as follows:::
1,)Phone is working fine using mini-winmo+cyan droid
2,) -PROBLEM- My android stops working, so now im stuck using a lite version of winmo
3,) Tried formatting the sdcard with the lite version winmo built in sdcard formatter, doesnt solve anything, dont exactly know what i was trying to solve with this step.
4,) I decide to get a nice fancy version of winmo, figured it would be as easy as just flashing it once n done.
5,)Decided on going with Ozrom, looked the best at the time.
6,) Run the ruucustom as admin, everything goes fine.
7,) -PROBLEM- after flashing the first boot leaves me stuck on the bootscreen.
So after all that i took the advice and tried to get back to the stock Tmous ROM, but as im typing this im still stuck on the Stick together screen, and also just for a control group i downloaded the latest HD2 cell winmo rom release, and that left me hanging on there version of the boot screen.
Same problem, different roms.. stuck on the loading/boot screen.
But, with the stock rom after playing around with removing the battery, simcard,sdcard and what have you i got the stock rom to boot!!!! I was so excited, i skipped the "How to use the on screen keyboard" tut and was typing in my email info when the phone reset on its own and all my hopes went down the drain... hopefully i will get some help on the issue, and like i said previously in the first paragraph i appreciate any and all help.
thanks.
---UPDATE---
Phone is on and working, intermittently.
When i plug the phone into the charger and wait for the amber light, it will boot up and actually enter into windows, now heres the kicker, removing the charger and using the phone will result in the phone turning off and restarting itself, hanging on the stick together screen.
Removing the battery, and replacing the battery after i push all the buttons, the same way you would power cycle a TV remote, and then connecting it to a charger is the only way ive been able to maintain the operation of the device.
Any ideas?
Try doing task29 reinstall winmo Rom of choosing.. see if that helps.. also I flash everything from bootloader. Also check battery pins make sure they aren't bent..
Sent from my Mytouch HD2
Hello all,
Some time ago, i decided to try and root and put in a custom rom on my htc hero, i followed a guide from this forum and it worked, no problems what so ever.
i flashed the floyo 1.something rom, and had it on there for a few days, maybe a week then one day after work i forgot to charge the phone so it ran out of power.
when i hooked it up to the the usb for charging and turned the phone on, it said Safe Mode in the lower left corner. i was kinda like 'what'?
so i did some searching and found out it might have entered safe mode cause of one of the buttons being held down while i was powering it on, so i tried turning it off and on, and not holding and holding differnet buttons, and eventually i got it out of safe mode, not allways with the same key combo, but then i noticed it starting have a bad battery life, about 10 hours on a full charge.
so i found a guide and put stock rom on it, and everything worked again, good battery life etc, and i did the ota, and got back to how it was before i started playing with custom roms.
i had it running for a few days like that, and decided to try the villain rom, i got recovery flashed, the rom flashed, and boom it was in safe mode again.
i was like even more 'what!?'
and the bad battery life was back too, so i tried some stuff, tried another rom, same deal, tried going back to stock rom, using the ruu files i find on here, and from then things went really wierd.
went back to stock rom, everything seemed to work, did the ota, to get newest upgrades, and in stock rom with ota updates the safe mode returned, i couldnt suddenly install apps from the market, or anything. i used to be able to do that in safe mode in the custom roms.
after a few days of trying stuff, i was finally able to get the recovery flashed, and villainrom back on there, cause i like that one the best, but the safe mode persists, and no matter what i try i cant get the safe mode to go away.
i did alot of searching on the web, and different forums and on this forum, but i cant find any clues to how i can fix this.
only time i can get it out of safe mode, and run normally
is if i apply this
RUU_Hero_HTC_WWE_1.76.405.1_R3_WWE_release_signed_NoDriver.exe
any help would be greatly appreciated.
ps. yes i dont really know what i am doing.
Hi all,
I got an HTC Explorer around a month ago and quickly found out how useless it was with the miniscule amount internal storage HTC decided to provide me with. So I quickly found jaggyjags' rooting tutorial found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1415223
All went well and I was happy with the phone, until some of the apps started bloating and I went a little too far with link2sd and tried to convert the com.htc app into a user app, which ended disastrously. Pretty much every process failed or had an error, so I tried restarting the phone and found myself in a boot-loop.
I then succesfully got into HBOOT and then into recovery. So I decided to try installing jaggyjags' custom ROM. After taking out my SD card to connect to my computer and copy jaggyjags' rom to, I got back into HBOOT, but could not get into recovery anymore. All the phone did was get stuck on the HTC screen.
After leaving it on the screen to see if it would eventually make it to recovery, I discovered that the phone is now dead and won't even charge. I'm not sure if it's because the battery might be dead or some other reason.
But before I gather the courage to send it in to get fixed, is there anything else I can do?
Thanks,
Aruim
So have u tried to turn it on with the charger connected?
Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e
Remove the battery and leave it out for a little while, then put it back in and plug in the phone and see if it will charge at all. Even if the screen doesn't show the charging animation, try turning it on after a little while on the charger.
Turn on and hold Volume Up to get into the bootloader, then try to get into fastboot if you can. If you can, try reflashing the recovery menu, then maybe you will be able to access it after that?
Just a few ideas from someone who doesn't really know very much about this sort of thing (thankfully).
Thanks for the reply guys!
Unfortunately the phone still isn't turning on at all, even after fiddling with the battery and putting it on the charger.
So now I may look into saving up and investing in a Sony Xperia S
Thanks anyway! And I'll continue posting if I do make any further progress!
Aruim
100% cleaned explorer, please help!!
hello everyone, i have registered to xda just to ask you for some help, because i have searched all over the forums and all over the internet and i can't find the help I need because there is no one who is in the situation I am. i have the rooted phone htc explorer (pico) which is cleaned totally. by that i mean no ROM, no android, no backup. I have only TeamWin Recovery v2.4.4.0 and nothing else. i have tried to flash it to stock ROM, cm9, and it is either stuck in a bootloop (cm9) or starts to bring up tons of errors when loads the stock android version. what am i doing wrong? p.s. i have read the tutorial...
ducman123 said:
hello everyone, i have registered to xda just to ask you for some help, because i have searched all over the forums and all over the internet and i can't find the help I need because there is no one who is in the situation I am. i have the rooted phone htc explorer (pico) which is cleaned totally. by that i mean no ROM, no android, no backup. I have only TeamWin Recovery v2.4.4.0 and nothing else. i have tried to flash it to stock ROM, cm9, and it is either stuck in a bootloop (cm9) or starts to bring up tons of errors when loads the stock android version. what am i doing wrong? p.s. i have read the tutorial...
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Always do clean wipe before flashing a Rom...wipe everything and then flash...
HTC Pico yc style
yasir4abbas said:
Always do clean wipe before flashing a Rom...wipe everything and then flash...
HTC Pico yc style
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yes i have wiped it completely, cache, delvik cache, data ...
ma phone got softbricked... Plsss help me..
i installed flyrom v4 in ma htc explorer through clockworkmod... When i tried to reboot it stucks in the htc splash screen... Plsss help me... Am freaking out... Waited for 30 mins... Still not coming to home screen... Wat should i do.?? I have rooted ma phone... Can i go back to stock rom ??
Hi,
I have one hard bricked Galaxy Note Pro 12.1 2014 Version tablet I bricked while loading custom ROM. I mistakenly popped out the external sd card that the rom was installing from. I was having some trouble with battery issues and was thinking a fresh install of the custom rom would fix it.
When the external card popped out while the rom was loading from the screen said it failed. On reboot the screen goes thru Galaxy logo then goes black. I tried installing recovery images and whatnot thru odin. Some would pass some would fail. And on reboot it just goes thru logo then goes black. I could see its on but nothing else. It does accept a charge though.
Its probably completely broken and at a complete loss but I thought maybe there was some chance. I think it might be possible to repartition or something to that affect but thought I'd see what is possible.
FYI: Not under warranty. Knox is tripped. I am willing to provide a $50 reward to whomever can walk me thru a possible fix. Yeah I know, if you help and it works again I could just say it still doesn't work but all I can offer is my word that you will be rewarded if it gets fixed.
Thank you for any positive feedback.
Tom
Solved
Kies was able to fix this problem. I tried odin a recovery tar , everything numerous times, even kies several times, nothing would do it. Also tried odin a stock rom and that helped a tiny bit. After installing stock rom several times (at first it didnt want to and would fail) it finally did go thru on like the 3rd try installed and passed. But then it would only go to samsung logo and lock up. This morning it tried kies again and miraculously it didnt lock up like it did before and install all the way thru. On reboot it went past logo and turned on completely as new. Moral of the story, have faith and dont give up. I almost trashed this thing and was ready to press the buy it now button for a new one but I decided to insanely try again as if some miracle might happen. And sure as sh#t a miracle happened.