Photon 2.3.5, rooted, locked. Was trying to flash jellybean, something went wrong. Now it just cycles to the 'Dual Core' screen, and off. I can get into the boot menus and rsd. Tried wiping data from recovery, didn't help. I have tried to flash 198_7 sbf file, but it fails at re-enumeration. Is my phone toast?
Read carefully through this post. You should recover your phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798145
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pradeeppk said:
Read carefully through this post. You should recover your phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798145
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I did a nandroid backup before I hosed things up. Will I be able to do a restore from that backup?
wvcyclist said:
I did a nandroid backup before I hosed things up. Will I be able to do a restore from that backup?
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I don't think so.
Can you able to enter custom recovery. If yes try nandroid backup.
Only few roms like peetrs hybrid are available For locked bootloader .
You flashed a rom for unlocked bootloader on locked phone. So the result is softbrick.
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Thanks for the assistance. I was able to flash some of the .sbf file. It failed during the "jump". However, it did boot up. Now I need to root. Do I use a rooting method for the Electrify, or can I use the photon torpedo method?
Thanks again for the help!!!
OK. I'm rooted, and I have Rom Manager installed. I can't boot to CWM recovery. I get the triangle! . Will I not be able to boot to CWM recovery?
Thank you! Thank you!!
wvcyclist said:
OK. I'm rooted, and I have Rom Manager installed. I can't boot to CWM recovery. I get the triangle! . Will I not be able to boot to CWM recovery?
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pradeeppk, Thank you so much for steering me in the right direction. My Photon is back in service!! Can't thank you enough!!
wvcyclist said:
pradeeppk, Thank you so much for steering me in the right direction. My Photon is back in service!! Can't thank you enough!!
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It is pleasure to hear that your phone was recovered from brick...... If anybody helped Thanks button is the perfect way to express it.
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It is pleasure to hear that your phone was recovered from brick...... If anybody helped Thanks button is the perfect way to express it
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New issue now. I have no audio on calls. The other party can hear me, I can't hear them. Speaker phone works good. From what I've seen, this is a software issue. Would you happen to have a fix for this?
Never mind. Broken speaker wires. Got it disconnected from the board, just have to order a new one.
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Sorry for the noob question, search results turned up nothing. When I rooted my phone, it had twrp on it, but then I loaded viper rom, and now I have cmw....most of my backups were on twrp. Is there a way to switch back and forth between the two? Viper now has an update, but says it doesnt load with cmw and you need to use twrp. Any help would be greatly appreciated
You can't have both. So pick flash the twrp recovery and be done with it. I don't think it will corrupt your nands but anything is possible.
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How do I do that?
pennfire38 said:
How do I do that?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16120006&postcount=3
thanks, I'll give that a shot
That worked perfectly, thanks ya'll for the help
Atrix 2.3.4 - 4.5.91
First off, I've done like 10 hours of researching today so please bare with me.
I thought I had unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone in the past. I'm able to tether so that was a sign I did it.
Today I attempted to install romracer cwm based recovery with rom manager. When i tried to install Rom from the sd. it restarted and said "failed to boot 2" after doing some research it said it was possible my bootloader was not unlocked. Now I think i did the right steps back when.
How do I find out for sure if my boot loader is unlocked.
I'm doing all this because Im attempting to get my phone back to stock as can be. I want to get it back to warranty for the following reasons
1) my video play back is all messed up on my recorder. (will a sbf fix this)?
2) when i insert a external sd card to my atrix, my screen sometimes turns black when it wants to).
So this is where i'm stuck. I read the newbie threads. Thanks for all the info. But man this "failed to boot 2" scared me. Luckily it didn't brick my phone. Took out battery and it started back up.
Help please
If your unlocked it will say unlocked in red letters at top of screen when turned on. If you aren't unlocked its possible you have just rooted your phone I think not positive that a factory reset would unroot your phone. Just go into recovery hold volume down when turning it on cycle down with volume down and choose with volume up in recovery both volume rockers are used to navigate and power is choose.
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freshbakd'
.tried what you told me. Got a android guy and “!” next to him. My phone doesn't say unlocked. I took out battery to restart it cause it froze with android guy. Any more info
So i did a factory reset. I guess there was more steps i need to take when I saw the android logo and "!". is my phone unrooted thanks for anyone who can help. As mentioned before. I don't think my phone was ever unlocked because I didn't see it when I started up my phone.
lambdaman4 said:
freshbakd'
.tried what you told me. Got a android guy and “!” next to him. My phone doesn't say unlocked. I took out battery to restart it cause it froze with android guy. Any more info
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Use pudding thread to unlock your bootloader, install Rom Racers CWM via fastboot after you are unlocked. If you want to make sure you are rooted after that, use the Moto root, stuck at top of the General section.
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Actually man if yer trying to get back to stock for warranty stuff or whatever just flash the 2.3.4 sbf. And be done with it.
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Phalanx7621 said:
Actually man if yer trying to get back to stock for warranty stuff or whatever just flash the 2.3.4 sbf. And be done with it.
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i doubt I can flash without being bootloader being unlocked. I did a hard reset. wiped everything out. So thats why I was asking if that unrooted my phone.
lambdaman4 said:
i doubt I can flash without being bootloader being unlocked. I did a hard reset. wiped everything out. So thats why I was asking if that unrooted my phone.
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You can flash to stock if your bootloader is locked. I did it and worked like a charm.
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pre4speed said:
You can flash to stock if your bootloader is locked. I did it and worked like a charm.
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+10 char. This. .sbf are flashed with rsd on your computer. Not with the phones recovery. That's why I mentioned this option for ya.
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O yeah forgot haven't used that in awhile when u get to the Droid with the I push in volume up and down at same then it enters stock recovery
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I have it rooted and installed safestrap. I rebooted to recovery by pressing menu button at startup, I wipe all data/cache/dalvik or w/e cache, enabled safe system, installed RAZR-ICS-AOKP-12.03.16-GSM-KANG-J.Y.Daddy from SD card.
But when I rebooted...Nothing happened, I still had my old stock rom. I've no idea whats going on, any help/tips/suggestions greatly appreciated, thank you
Safestrap is for CDMA, not GSM.
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onslaught86 said:
Safestrap is for CDMA, not GSM.
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I have safestrap on my gsm razr
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zeidof said:
I have safestrap on my gsm razr
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But you can't boot into recovery on the gsm razr...
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JDCFH said:
But you can't boot into recovery on the gsm razr...
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err yes you can,
reaperzero said:
err yes you can,
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I thought I'd read that if you have bricked your phone that you can't boot into safe strap recovery?
I know you can boot into it normally but thought if you needed to boot into recovery if you have soft brick you can't use safe strap recovery?
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JDCFH said:
I thought I'd read that if you have bricked your phone that you can't boot into safe strap recovery?
I know you can boot into it normally but thought if you needed to boot into recovery if you have soft brick you can't use safe strap recovery?
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lets just say we know what we are doing :/ if you arent sure then by all means use the CWM on boot. i find it annoying though =_= and if any tom **** or harry gets a hold of my phone and reboots it.
it gives them the chance of factory resetting my phone.... me friends are assholes. also i did make his phone crash after that incident using prey. till today he still thinks its possessed
and on that note if you really do brick it you can always flash it over using RSD lite. well if you have the correct rom version anyway
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lets just say we know what we are doing :/ if you arent sure then by all means use the CWM on boot. i find it annoying though =_= and if any tom **** or harry gets a hold of my phone and reboots it.
it gives them the chance of factory resetting my phone.... me friends are assholes. also i did make his phone crash after that incident using prey. till today he still thinks its possessed
and on that note if you really do brick it you can always flash it over using RSD lite. well if you have the correct rom version anyway
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So is it better to use safe strap over boot strap then? How do you boot into recovery? I don't think you can boot
Into recovery using bootstrap so its kinda pointless?
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=_= why dont you go search the forums? to me you already sound you have your mind made up. and i would like to say again i can boot into recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347767
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=_= why dont you go search the forums? to me you already sound you have your mind made up. and i would like to say again i can boot into recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347767
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No need for the hostility.
I can boot in to recovery from the GUI but not from the phone being in an off state which I would think to be very useful.
So from your post it will only work properly if I flash up to 2.3.6 or if I roll back busy box?
Some guidance would be nice instead of being an ass. People like me come to these forums to learn from people who know more like yourself.
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thats what bootstrap is supposed to do. if it was cyanogen you can boot in using the power+ volume button. cwm on boot is just making sure that cwm boots up before anything else. hence if you soft brick you can restore
also all the info is already in the forum. search engine is your friend. any questions should be directed to their respective threads. as the devs who made them should be monitoring it
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ok,
So like an idiot, i began the S-OFF process without reverting my SuperCID. I cannot get past step 8, and i am having errors flashing my RUU.
Right now i cannot get past the bootloader. If i try to fastboot reboot, it takes me back to the bootloader. If i try a reboot, it takes me back to the bootloader.
Is there something that i can flash to get me back and running? I have tried numerous things, and i really need my phone back tonight. Grandfather is in the hospital, and i have no way to contact anyone except through facebook / email.
does anyone have some ideas, or know what i need to do? I honestly dont care about root or s-off, i can do that later. Right now i just need a bootable phone.
help!
squeezyb said:
ok,
So like an idiot, i began the S-OFF process without reverting my SuperCID. I cannot get past step 8, and i am having errors flashing my RUU.
Right now i cannot get past the bootloader. If i try to fastboot reboot, it takes me back to the bootloader. If i try a reboot, it takes me back to the bootloader.
Is there something that i can flash to get me back and running? I have tried numerous things, and i really need my phone back tonight. Grandfather is in the hospital, and i have no way to contact anyone except through facebook / email.
does anyone have some ideas, or know what i need to do? I honestly dont care about root or s-off, i can do that later. Right now i just need a bootable phone.
help!
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Did you relock the boot loader?
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yes i did
squeezyb said:
yes i did
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More info would help like what errors you are getting
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adb wont even find my device, so i am not getting any errors. is there a working RUU i can rename to PJ53IMG, and flash that through the bootloader?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28723878
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right, i tried this and had no success. the bootloader went through the process, and began to load the file, but did not finish the process. Could i possibly have tried flashing the wrong one?
i know this is something simple that i can flash, but it is not working
squeezyb said:
right, i tried this and had no success. the bootloader went through the process, and began to load the file, but did not finish the process. Could i possibly have tried flashing the wrong one?
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Either should work but try the other
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i tried using the one from unlimited.io, renaming it to PJ53IMG, but it would not flash... in theory that would do the trick right?
i am trying to download the file again, we'll see if that works. possibly corrupted on my end
squeezyb said:
i tried using the one from unlimited.io, renaming it to PJ53IMG, but it would not flash... in theory that would do the trick right?
i am trying to download the file again, we'll see if that works. possibly corrupt
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Probably not. Use the one provided in Andy's thread. ADB is probably not working because debugging has been turned off.
Have you tried the recovery? Check to see if that works. If not try to fastboot a recovery. The command is "Fastboot flash recovery". Try with TWRP. If that takes then try to flash a ROM with that.
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Probably not. Use the one provided in Andy's thread. ADB is probably not working because debugging has been turned off.
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the link in andy's thread is busted, or i would. unless i am wrong.. have you tried it?
On my side ill say do what the ther said, if you still have supercid you can unlock device and flash recovery and flash a working rom if you want it booteable
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squeezyb said:
the link in andy's thread is busted, or i would. unless i am wrong.. have you tried it?
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Yep. Working just fine for me.
Anyways, try the recovery route. I think it is your best bet.
blazingwolf said:
Yep. Working just fine for me.
Anyways, try the recovery route. I think it is your best bet.
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OK FALSE ALARM!
I am back in business.
the first time tried flashing the RUU it did not work. i redownloaded, tried again, and it works fine.
Thank you everyone for dealing with my noob behavior.
<3 you all
squeezyb said:
OK FALSE ALARM!
I am back in business.
the first time tried flashing the RUU it did not work. i redownloaded, tried again, and it works fine.
Thank you everyone for dealing with my noob behavior.
<3 you all
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Great to hear.
squeezyb said:
OK FALSE ALARM!
I am back in business.
the first time tried flashing the RUU it did not work. i redownloaded, tried again, and it works fine.
Thank you everyone for dealing with my noob behavior.
<3 you all
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Everyone panics a little bit when the screen goes black
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jamminjon82 said:
Everyone panics a little bit when the screen goes black
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No truer words are spoken
jamminjon82 said:
Everyone panics a little bit when the screen goes black
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Yep. And somehow time stands still for an eternity until something happens to let you know its alive.
I'll ask here first I achieved s off bit it destroyed my sd well to cut it short I flashed the ruu.zip I'm now s off with a locked bootloader no superuser or root and no recovery how do I install a recovery?
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prairiedogn said:
I'll ask here first I achieved s off bit it destroyed my sd well to cut it short I flashed the ruu.zip I'm now s off with a locked bootloader no superuser or root and no recovery how do I install a recovery?
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look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435228
While using titanium backup i froze all apps. (too hard headed I didn't care about the warning) but I made backups on apps that I think was important. It was working just fine. But when I restarted it. The logo just appeared. It's almost a day and it's still like that please help me gosh I hoped it wasn't bricked.
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While using titanium backup i froze all apps. (too hard headed I didn't care about the warning) but I made backups on apps that I think was important. It was working just fine. But when I restarted it. The logo just appeared. It's almost a day and it's still like that please help me gosh I hoped it wasn't bricked.
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Unless you remember all the apps you froze, which is unlikely, go into recovery mode and factory reset your device.
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Carlyle_f said:
Unless you remember all the apps you froze, which is unlikely, go into recovery mode and factory reset your device.
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Oh. Thank you. I have tried it. But I don't know.. Is it possible that I froze something that is required for the recovery?
DearestMartha said:
Oh. Thank you. I have tried it. But I don't know.. Is it possible that I froze something that is required for the recovery?
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If you can get into recovery then no, are the any custom Roms for your device? I suggest you try flashing one. They normally have all the bloatware removed already. Either that or flash your stock ROM again using Odin. Which device do you have?
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Carlyle_f said:
If you can get into recovery then no, are the any custom Roms for your device? I suggest you try flashing one. They normally have all the bloatware removed already. Either that or flash your stock ROM again using Odin. Which device do you have?
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It's an LG L7 p705 sir. It's rooted but I haven't flashed any custom roms yet.
I really think I froze something that has to do with the recovery. I can't access it.
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It's an LG L7 p705 sir. It's rooted but I haven't flashed any custom roms yet.
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If you prefer stock ROM then use Odin to flash a stock ROM on your device. I don't see any other way out of this
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DearestMartha said:
I really think I froze something that has to do with the recovery. I can't access it.
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Can you acces Emergency Mode my friend. Pull out battery. Insert it back then Hold Volume up + Volume down + power button tell me if you see a yellow screen.
I doubt you can use Odin as you say you have an lg device. Many lg devices have fastboot access via bootloader if yours is on then you should be fine. I doubt you froze anything that would keep you from booting to the recovery as you can't freeze your kernel so keep trying to get there. But a factory reset will doubtfully help as you probably removed some system apps that don't return when doing a factory reset, but still worth a try
If you can get into recovery and a factory reset doesn't help then wipe all and then flash a custom ROM.
If this won't work than hope you have fastboot access and or another method such as nvflash or whatever
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Ok. Thank you so much for your replies I really appreciate it. I guess that recovery is my only hope.. I'll try to get to it. I was nervous that I think I froze something that have to do with the recovery. I'll try to be more careful now, I'll just post if it's working fine now.
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Ok. Thank you so much for your replies I really appreciate it. I guess that recovery is my only hope.. I'll try to get to it. I was nervous that I think I froze something that have to do with the recovery. I'll try to be more careful now, I'll just post if it's working fine now.
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Man can you enter Emergency Mode tell me so i can give you details on how to flash Stock.
christi9503 said:
Man can you enter Emergency Mode tell me so i can give you details on how to flash Stock.
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I've tried it again and again. Still can't access it.
DearestMartha said:
I've tried it again and again. Still can't access it.
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Ok put battery out then try only Volume up + Power button and hold them untill you see the yellow screen.