I dont know where i went wrong but now the only place i can get to on my phone is holding volume up and putting it in fastboot mode. It a locked boot loader of course. Am i Screwed? I could really use some help.
To be honest I'm pretty sure I was in the same spot for a bit.. You should be able to flash the stock ftf using flashtool I would think.
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Alright I just traded for a photon the guy told me it was stock and wasn't rooted. Well it was rooted and on 4.5.1A-1_SUN-198.6. The bootloader was locked though. I came tried to boot into recovery and there is no recovery there. I unlocked the bootloader and tried to install the bootstrap it worked at first but when I rebooted and tried to go back into recovery again there is none on the phone. So whats my best course of action? Use RSD go back to complete stock and start over or is there a fix for this?
i think you are mixing things up a bit, bootstrap is an app that launches a custom made recovery that is kinda like a livecd version of cwm. you have to unlock and then flash it in order for it to stick
I would double check to see if you still had root. if not, you have to re-root. then install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218417
[Unlocked Only][RECOVERY][2011-09-23] Custom CWM-based Recovery 5.0.2.3-photon2.
I remember having the same problem. I just had to repeat some steps.
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Thanks friends I appreciate the fast responses.
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Dammit no matter what I do I can't get any kind of recovery to take.
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Just rsd to the latest sbf once booted go into settings . Then privacy. Then factory data reset. OK now power off. Turn on holding volume down an power once screen says fastboot, let go and press volume down til u see android recovery. Press volume up to start it. When the icon comes up press volume down and volume up at same time. Now you are in recovery do what u need in there and soon you will back to 100% stock.
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Also can you clarify how you are trying to get into recovery? And what does happen when your perform the steps to get there?
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Alright i have it all figured out now, just wanted to say thanks again for the help. This phone is a powerhouse I must say. I'm very pleased so far.
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So a friend of mine has an atrix and I have an inspire, and tonight I did the same things as he did. Ruined our phones.
Background
We both have rooted phones upon flashing a different rom to my phone it "bricked" it (i use that term loosely) Well upon boot up it would stay on the custom boot image that I installed. His was doing the same thing not going past the boot nor going into Clockwork.
Well upon looking around the inspire forums I found a PD98IMG file that took my phone back to the original setting like it was out of the box. I just had to do the normal power+volume down button it and it located the file and extracted everything. Now my inspire works like it was (thank god for backups of previous roms prior to flashing LOL)
Now the question and the reason I am posting in this forum. Is there something like what I used to help my friend get his Atrix working again? I was thinking this would work but not sure. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009 and this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944 would this work to get his phone past the boot so he can get his phone working again?
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Provide more info on his problem please...
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his is the same as mine was. power on and it stays on the main boot screen. according to him he cant get past the boot screen nor into his bootloader same issue I had.
Sounds like a boot loop. Read on it.
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Sounds like a boot loop. Read on it.
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That's not a boot loop if it just stays on the screen and doesn't reboot over and over.
Is his bootloader unlocked?
What ROM is he running?
Custom kernel?
Any text on the boot logo screen?
How was new ROM flashed? (Fastboot, CWM, SBF, etc.)
Can CWM be accessed by holding the volume down button as the phone powers on?
Don't flash anything via RSD.
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That's not a boot loop if it just stays on the screen and doesn't reboot over and over.
Is his bootloader unlocked?
What ROM is he running?
Custom kernel?
Any text on the boot logo screen?
How was new ROM flashed? (Fastboot, CWM, SBF, etc.)
Can CWM be accessed by holding the volume down button as the phone powers on?
Don't flash anything via RSD.
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Yes
Not 100% sure but he said he was changing it to some alien thingy when this happened
Whatever came with his rom (cant say as I did not ask what his was
Failed to boot 4 Starting RSD mode and stays there
CWM
No
He doesnt have unlocked bootloader
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He doesnt have unlocked bootloader
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Have him try to flash the SBF again, plugging the USB cable into one of the "back" ports on the computer. Also make sure the battery has a good charge before hand.
Also using another computer may help. Sometimes it's as simple as the USB port you/he was using.
failed to boot 4
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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.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.
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.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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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.
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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.
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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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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 to hold down the power button while inserting the battery for the phone to boot. Does anyone have a fix for this?
What comes up when it does boot
And what did you flash?
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I flashed derpunlock.spf with RSD Lite.
When I get it to boot it will go into android as normal. The power button functions perfectly once I am booted into android.
Strange. Well it doesn't seem like a big deal if it boots and your unlocked.
But if you want wipe all flash stock sbf and then unlock... And see if that solves your problem.
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Strange. Well it doesn't seem like a big deal if it boots and your unlocked.
But if you want wipe all flash stock sbf and then unlock... And see if that solves your problem.
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Yeah, I ended up flashing a stock sbf and it's back to normal. It must have been a bad flash with derpunlock. I'm going to flash it again and see if my power button breaks again. Thanks for the response.
For some reason when I flash the the unlock sbf, it turns my phone off instead of restarting it. This is what breaks the power button from functioning.
Has anyone experienced something like this?
Yeah, Olegfusion, for what I know. And he got it repaired, with the RSD Lite hack method of unlocking. But it's not so easy and a little dangerous, if you do not do the steps right. And that method was tried only by me and Olegfusion. And we both are stuck unlocked. I think, you don't want to do this.
Well I may have truly found out how to brick this phone. First what you want to do is unlock the bootloader, then flash a recovery. Next you want to gain SU on the phone and root. If your their and you want to brick your phone you will need to do the following steps.
1. Forget to create a restore
2. Flash the google nexus 4.3 to the phone
3. realize it in a boot loop
4. format data on the phone (yeah that's right...I wiped everything)
5. sit back and admire your work.
Any ideas?
Jtag
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Jtag
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what he said
Can you get into recovery?
There is a way to adb a rom file onto the phone using twrp as long as you can get into recovery and the pc recognizes the phone....if no recovery though I don't know.. would have to be able to get into fastboot and flash twrp.
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Can you get into recovery?
There is a way to adb a rom file onto the phone using twrp as long as you can get into recovery and the pc recognizes the phone....if no recovery though I don't know.. would have to be able to get into fastboot and flash twrp.
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Thanks for the reply.
I have tried to side losd a rom but either I'm doing it wrong or it just won't work. I keep getting errors. I can reboot the phone from ADB on the computer but I can't seem to move any information across...Heck I can even lock and unlock the bootloader but not side load.
Did you try this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42426459
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Oh, i feel your pain, Just "soft" bricked my phone. Lucky it has plenty of juice and i was still able to get to booloader. Somewhat of an easy fix. But boy did my heart start pumping.
When you reboot, what does it do? Just sit there on the HTC screen, not light up at all, or something else?
I only ask because I thought I borked mine today going from the OTA, to .12, to S-OFF, the accidentally making it ENG S-OFF, and then the screen not lighting up when I'd try to do anything.
But I was able to get the silver HTC screen to pop up and flash the 4.1.2 RUU to go to WWE 4.2.2.
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