Is there any known way to fix a bricked G4?
bricked or dead explain more your problem
Bricked
It was bricked, I had the Bule, Green, Red screen. But I went to http://www.htcamerica.net/support/81...downloads.html and flashed the original Rom. Thanx for trying to help though, it's much appriciated.
- Artzmaster01
You were just in bootloader screen, it wasn't bricked! Wouldn't hurt if you gave some details.
Jeez . . .
Sorry for being a noob. Is anyone here actually helpful or are all of you just stuck up?
- Artzmaster01
Artzmaster01 said:
Sorry for being a noob. Is anyone here actually helpful or are all of you just stuck up?
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i'm a NOOB too but you can't expect to be spoon fed can you? this is THE development site for our devices and the guys here are helpful to a fault..but what would your mechanic say if you towed your car into the garage and said it doesn't work? you just didn't provide the information required to get an answer...not that you needed an answer from the guys here...it's all in the wiki or do a search it's been asked a thousand times. if your asking for help in future i'd suggest your more civil about, "you'll catch more fly's with honey"
Done that
I think the search engine is broken cuz I've searched for information about what I want to learn and it will tell that it's invalid. And I tried to be civil but the guy practically told me that I was an idiot, there's no need for it.
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I think the search engine is broken cuz I've searched for information about what I want to learn and it will tell that it's invalid. And I tried to be civil but the guy practically told me that I was an idiot, there's no need for it.
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Strange . . . I didn't get that impression from the replies you got. As far as your searches saying "invalid", I have no idea exactly what your search criteria was, but you might want to use this in the future.
As far as knownuser's reply, he's right on the money. Noone here "owes" you any thing. It's up to YOU to do the reading to learn what you need to know. Everything you need is either in the Wiki or in the forums' threads. The developers here are developing and they don't have time to respond to questions that have already been asked -- and answered -- a thousand times over. If you're not willing to learn by taking the time to read the information that's already available on here, then you don't belong here in the first place. The developers here don't have time to spoon feed every noob that keeps asking the same question over and over.
Now, if MY response makes you feel like an idiot -- if the shoe fits . . .
OK . . .
One . . . I never said that anyone OWED me ANYTHING. Two . . . if it's a question that YOU or anyone else has previously answered, then why answer it again and get frustrated? JUST DON'T REPLY! WOW! Sounds so hard . . . So I screwed up, sue me . . . >=P
P.S. And NO, you didn't make me feel like an idiot. You just made yourself look like a stuck up jack ass
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One . . . I never said that anyone OWED me ANYTHING. Two . . . if it's a question that YOU or anyone else has previously answered, then why answer it again and get frustrated? JUST DON'T REPLY! WOW! Sounds so hard . . . So I screwed up, sue me . . . >=P
P.S. And NO, you didn't make me feel like an idiot. You just made yourself look like a stuck up jack ass
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There's a reason many members get frustrated when forced to answer the same question on a regular basis. In their/my eyes this indicates a lack of understanding and reading on behalf of the member who posted the question. This is a known problem with many forums.
P.S You would be well advised not to abuse other established members who obviously know more than you do. On the off chance that you do require assistance again in the near future, abusing other members pretty much gurantees you wont receive it.
Understandable
FINALLY! Someone explaining things WITHOUT trying to rip me a new one. I understand where you're coming from, but I did apologize for being ignorant yet people felt the need to unload their repressed anger towards me. I am truly sorry for getting ahead of myself and I do appreciate all of the hard work that all of the senior members have put into making our HTC experience a good one; but that tends to make themselves into arrogant monarchs who become full of themselves. Trust me, I know what it's like to get frustrated, I'm a karate instructor who has to deal with kids from ages 4 and up 5 days a week. And if any parent here is reading, they know how tough dealing with a 4 year old can be. Try dealing with 30 at a time . . . But no matter how much more I know than someone in the martial arts, I NEVER act better than them. It's bad for business. So in closing, Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this board but frankly some of you need to cool down a bit. Thanx Peter Petrelli (love the SN, Heros rocks!) for being the only one to politely tell me what I did was wrong.
Best way to deal with Senior members with tendency to flame newbies (i confess!) is to ask like you're Shrek's ***** cat making those 'feel pity for me' big eyes:
"Can you please kindly tell me..."
"I've searched for hours and haven't had much luck in finding the..."
"I've used the search engine a lot but most of the results don't work. Can anyone point me on the right direction?"
and son on and so forth
cheers
Artzmaster01 said:
Sorry for being a noob. Is anyone here actually helpful or are all of you just stuck up?
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I love noobie bricks!!
Ok I get interested reading a thread like this.
Honestly is it not easier to say: I have a phone blah blah, which I tried to blah blah blah, and all I'm getting is blah blah, can someone guide me on what to do or is it dead or not dead? (I think bricked has been abused in this case)
All will easily be explained and someone will help. Details do help! First thing I do, whenever I want to do something is read and read the forum. Thats why I have less posts! ha ha I would have asked alot but frankly all the info (to a certain degree) has been provided
noob mistake from a PC tech, lol...
I very stupidly didn't check to see if a Wizard was a G3 or G4 and flashed the WM5 IPL 1.01 downgrade on it thinking it was a G3 and I was setting up for use with LokiWiz. It tried to boot after the flash, but it froze. Now, it just flickers for a split second when I attempt to power it on. I tried entering bootloader through camera + power, camera + reset, comm + voice + reset, as well as mail + camera + power, and nothing is making it enter bootloader. I'm figuring that in my assumption I made an a** outta myself and finally bricked my first phone, after sucessfully flashing about 20. I read somewhere that you could cut your power cord and tap the live contacts to pins 1 and 5 and unbrick a seriously bricked phone, but can't seem to find the article again. Would someone kindly point me in the right direction? Also, has anyone had any luck with this method?
To enter bootloader you keep 'voice' pressed and poke the reset hole briefly but then again it's nothing that doesn't come in the wiki
One of the things that I tried. I didn't list it though, I'm going nuts with this phone. When I do that it still shows nothing. What I think I did was flash the G3 bootloader on a G4 device. Does anyone know the cut cable method?
No, if you do so and make your Wizard can't even power on, then it's a brick. It is nearly impossible to recover unless you know the JTAG method (AFAIK, only 1 person here successfully unbrick a really bricked G4, and he didn't tell us how).
my suggestion for the bricked phone (if indeed it is bricked, ie., it won't turn on at all) is to call HTC up and see if you phone is under warranty. I bought my cingular 8125 off of ebay and i use it with a canadian provider, so there is no warranty from anyone in that case, but suprisingly, when i bricked my G4 and I was gonna send it to get it fixed at whatever cost they were gonna say, they went by the IMEI # and said that it was still under warranty (irrespective of the fact that i bought it off of ebay and that i wasnt a cingular customer) and fixed it at no cost. They even changed the entire housing and put a new one on there for free (no idea why). So call them and try it. You have nothin to loose by calling. Good luck, i understand the pain and anguish and the "kick myself in the a**" feeling when yo flash a G3 onto G4 unknowingly coz thats what happened to me. again, good luck.
Hi, I'm new to these forums.
I recently purchased my S3 and thought it would be a good idea to root it and install a custom ROM. After using it for a few days I decided I didn't want it and wanted to return back. I realised that this will be tough for me with my little knowledge. Basically all I want is help on how to unroot my device back to the way it came first out of the box. I'm not worried about losing anything on the phone. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated and I may give a reward. Please ask a many questions as you want.
Many thanks.
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Hi, I'm new to these forums.
I recently purchased my S3 and thought it would be a good idea to root it and install a custom ROM. After using it for a few days I decided I didn't want it and wanted to return back. I realised that this will be tough for me with my little knowledge. Basically all I want is help on how to unroot my device back to the way it came first out of the box. I'm not worried about losing anything on the phone. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated and I may give a reward. Please ask a many questions as you want.
Many thanks.
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I would've helped, but the "reward' thing made me not to! I dont know why..
There're many thread on this topic already..so search around. I'll give you a hint "Triangle away"
jtomkins27 said:
Hi, I'm new to these forums.
I recently purchased my S3 and thought it would be a good idea to root it and install a custom ROM. After using it for a few days I decided I didn't want it and wanted to return back. I realised that this will be tough for me with my little knowledge. Basically all I want is help on how to unroot my device back to the way it came first out of the box. I'm not worried about losing anything on the phone. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated and I may give a reward. Please ask a many questions as you want.
Many thanks.
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dont give rewards instead just use the search function...
watch this video by totallydubbed
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rc...mPaH6UUTVQca6Vtdg&sig2=WiLMnmXEzz7SzsqpJXvSSw
Alright laddies an gents. First for most i know and understand i stand on one leg when speaking when it comes to credibility being this is logically my first post.
Either way it goes i have spent literally the past 71 hours trying to break in this little beast. i have a problem with not giving up at all cost.
I would post this in the dev area to seek further help an give info people are begin for but i am not able to.
I can an will PROVIDE ALL Proof STEP FOR STEP in the way i did it. NOTE I DID BRICK MY PHONE 38 times before i got the method to a T an then i unrooted an rerooted many times to be sure.
PLEASE NOTE THE MOST IMPORTANT Thing I DID NOT MAKE OR CREATE ANYTHING I literally googled the CRAP out of my ISP an spent most my hours on here trying to figure out new ways to brick my phone. LOL
Questions i see everywhere before asked. Yes everything works.
I have the phone rooted. i disabled Knox. i have it international unlocked.
The kicker. i need it domestic unlocked. no clue here. just like many others.
I know loads of people said if they could get root they could get some sort of modem file.
Tell me what to do an what you need. I will provide. I will even go as far as letting remote into my computer. To allow you to do what you need to.
I beg everyone please refrain from questions of how or this an that. I am on a mission here to get this Domestic unlock an i am at the step that the devs need people to be at but seemingly no one has came to yet. till now.
If you need screen shots or step for step let me know. I AM A NOVICE With Phones always following tuts.. I am BY NO MEANS a novice at computers though. I have MANY certs. This is the FIRST forum i have ever posted in to ever reach out cause well typically i can find the answer. but no one has the answer for this. I have whats needed to get us end goal though. I not know what to do with it. or how to get to it after getting root. If i am wrong in any of this please tell me.
ONCE MORE. I CREATED NOTHINg. I TAKE NO CREDITS FOR ANYTHINg. I simply put a load of peoples ideas to trial an after many failures. I decided to put there combined ideas together. So TO THE DEVS. LETS HEAR It. What do you need. I am the genie pig i am NOt afraid to brick this puppy 10000000 more times to get this right.
Hi. I have been a long time iphone person, since the first one. I decided to switch and got an S6 edge. I love it. However i need some fundamentals please. Is there a thread or link someone can share please or just help me here. I need to know everything. I was able to root my device and figure out some basics but id like to know more. Such as why put a custom rom on my phone, what exactly is a custom rom, how to get into certain modes on my phone and why/what they are mean, whats a bootloader and what does it do. What can be formatted what cannot. I could go on but i hope everyone understands what i mean. Also im not asking for someone to do the work for me i just need to know what to read and whats what of what. Thank you.
Many of your questions are answered in these few threads.
The last one explains how to unroot in case you want to.
I also am sharing a few apks I found helpful when I first used Android.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261946
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466228
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/sm-g925f-s6-firmware-thread-t3078841
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joeykrim.allaboutroot&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drippler.android.updates&hl=en
Thank you. Greatly appreciated.
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I have recently purchased my daughter this phone to use for Pokemon Go...since she is only 9 she cannot go walking around too far to play this game..SOOO i am in need of 2 things if at all possible.
1. A rooted stock ROM for this Phone(SuperSU rooted works the best and easiest)
2. A Stock ROM for the phone(Just an exact replica of the ROM that is pre-installed when you first buy the phone, or can remove all the garbage excess stuff if would like? )
I do not have loads of cash but if someone can help me i wouldn't mind donating to them to get this done? Just let me know if someone has these files already(i already have Odin to do the flashing and i know how to do it already, just need these 2 files ) OR if someone would do this for me(for my daughter actually haha) like i said, i would gladly donate to them if they prefer. just whatever it takes
Thanks for the time and for reading my post!
Anyone at all willing to help? or tell me how to make a copy of the phone myself?
Still no answer? is it ok to bump threads like once a week so people can see the thread often? i am desperately needing to find someone to help me. My daughter keeps asking about this and i have to keep telling her i am working on it. I've tried researching how to do it myself...but uhhh it gets kinda confusing and last thing i wanna do is mess the phone up lol. So, if anyone can please help me i'd GREATLY appreciate it! If cannot send the files themselves...if someone could guide me exactly as to how to manage doing it by myself maybe? Thanks guys!
I am afraid to say this is not possible so far I know. A Friend as ask me to unlock his phone, but no success. I think I gonna suggest to sell it in eBay and get another phone which is possible to unlock (and not from Verizon).