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I need HELP! Think I bricked my Hermes

okay quick breakdown... I bought a Cingular 8525 unlocked this past saturday, and i love it! OKay so i loaded Resco Registry on the phone because i wanted to take away the start up image and the start up sound because it was annoying. So in doing so, i editted out the registry, and got rid of the annoying sound, and i used "splat.wav". and put a pic of my car up there. Now I restarted it, the device turns on, the device info shoes up with the AT&T Logo, and the wav file doesnt load, and my background image is there now, but it just stays there.. nothing happens after that. It just stays on that same screen. Did i just basically ruin my phone and in return got a very expensive paper weigh? Please let me know if there is a safe mode or something for me to revert these actions...

You might have deleted some registry entry or file that Windows Mobile needs. You can either figure out that these might be or just reinstall the ROM file.
You would lose any data that you saved to the phone UNLESS you saved the data to the Storage Card (MicroSD) Memory.
From your description, you have not bricked it.
You normally brick a phone when you get a 'No GSM' error or Missing IMEI and CID.
Good luck.

crazyut said:
You might have deleted some registry entry or file that Windows Mobile needs. You can either figure out that these might be or just reinstall the ROM file.
You would lose any data that you saved to the phone UNLESS you saved the data to the Storage Card (MicroSD) Memory.
From your description, you have not bricked it.
You normally brick a phone when you get a 'No GSM' error or Missing IMEI and CID.
Good luck.
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I agree it does not sound bricked so yeah a hard reset to reinstall ROM.
Mike

that's the problem. I try to re-flash it, with the latest cingular rom, but it doesnt boot up into windows. It just stays on that screen. =(

Ah.. that's different. Thought you had just changed a few reg entries. You will need the help of the ROM Gurus - that's not me!
Mike

yobeez said:
that's the problem. I try to re-flash it, with the latest cingular rom, but it doesnt boot up into windows. It just stays on that screen. =(
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You can hold down two buttons when powering it up and it will enter the flasher mode. I forget which two, but keep trying to hold down the "hard buttons" (buttons 1-5, not any on the keyboard) while powering it up or doing a soft reset. One combination will erase everything like a hard reset, the other combination will bring you into bootloader mode to get a flash going.
This worked on the wizard, and I swear I've done it once by accident on the Hermes.

the power button and the ok button
The power button on the right of the Hermes and the OK button on the left, just below the scroll wheel are what put it into flash mode.

thanks guys, i performed a hard reset and it now works... now i have to reinstall every piece of program that i had installed before.. THANKS!

Wing brick - New ROM wont work

Hello, everyone...
I had my Wing sitting on my desk for months - I went to go pick it up and it didnt work. When I plugged it in, the orange light blinked and went off... each time I plugged it in, that is what it would do.
Nothing I would do would get it to turn on - plugging it into computer, trying to do a hard reset, nothing.
So I figured I bricked my phone. Since I can get to the bootloader, I installed a new ROM - 4.26.(something) and nothing changed. I tried another ROM, 4.10.0002 and that didnt work either. It did successfully downgrade (per the bootloader), but it wount start up.
Each time I went to upgrade the phone, my computer wouldnt detect which version of ROM I had on it.. but it still went forward with the upgrade - and my phone responded great... but when powering on, wouldnt get past the TMOBILE start up. It just would turn itself off.
I dont have a memory card in it... and when I go to hard reset, it takes about a half a second, says complete.. and that is that (which leads me to believe it isnt working.. or there is nothing to delete!
Any thoughts on what I should do?

Phone is always starting as a first time...

Hi to all of You...
I have a tattoo. I have done root, and make nand backup (by maverix). Phone have worked well for a week or so. I putted IGO, and modified data.gro. Everything was beautiful. I have turned off phone for a couple of times, and turn it on with no problems (for a week). Today, my battery have died, and when i putted on a charger, phone turned on, but was in a state same as when i bought it. It asked me for language, my mail... I have done everything. When it was "alive", i realized that i have no more any program, no messages, my phonebook was like in a time i have done backup (approximately). Now, every time I restart my phone, it comes back with anything (like it is brand new). When I try do do restore (hold home + power button and then in Backup/restore, ---> Nand Restore) it is impossible. When i pick restore that i want to do (BDS-20100521-2024) it start doing it and then prompt : Error run 'nanodroid-mobile.sh" via adb!
Can somebody please help me with this problem.
Thank You very much!!!!!

Try flashing the stock rom. Might solve your issues.

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[Q] First boot loop, now wont turn on, 7 vibrations?? HELP!!

Hello, I have the HTC tmobile mytouch 4g and it is acting up. Stock phone, no roms or rooted.
Three days ago, at night, doing some browsing and then everything froze, would not respond. I removed battery, and then it did a boot loop so i kept trying for a while, taking out battery, and turning on but still boot loop, so then left it alone.
The next morning i held the power and home button and it turned on and it worked normally for the whole day! until about the same time two days ago. Doing a little reading and browsing before bed (same website too, but i didn't download anything and the site works fine on a computer) and it froze. Did the same routine except it didnt work in the morning again. I removed sd and sim card too, left everything out for a long time, but whatever i tried it wouldn't work.
Yesterday i tried all day and then I read online I should do a wipe cache partition from the recovery menu. So i did that, but it was still a boot loop. After a few tries, it stopped turning on. Now the screen doesn't even turn on, but the phone vibrates 7 times when power is pressed, then will not respond at all unless i take battery out, then it will do the 7 vibrations and etc.
All htc said is to try a factory reset, but it wont even go to that menu. I can send it to them, but will probably lose everything on my phone ( like messages, contacts, and app data?) BUT I'm convinced there is another way, since it fixed itself the first time.
Just recently, now it has started blinking the charging light when charging (i charged it about 10 hours ago and it didn't blink)
I don't really know much about how these things work, but I have been reading some stuff about pd15??.jzip and putting it on the sd card (i have access to a micro sdcard reader) Also about a stock image or something. I don't know much so please give a simple-ish answer.
IF THE SOLUTION YOU WILL PROPOSE HAS A LOW SUCCESS RATE OR HAS A POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER DAMAGING THE PHONE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW... If it is too difficult/ too much work/ or dangerous, then I don't mind losing whatever i have on the phone

The PD15IMG.zip is the "stock image." It has to be installed in the bootloader, and you WILL lose all of your data. Usually you can get to the bootloader by holding volume down while booting. It will scan for the file there. Can you get into your bootloader?

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cannot turn on no matter what i hold.
I think the blinking last night meant that it isn't charging the battery anymore. wont even vibrate now unless it is plugged in. its not an issue with the battery is it??
if this stock image is going to delete everything anyway, i might as well send it to htc. i just hoped i might be able to save my messages because i have some really hilarious ones, but oh well.
Can you please tell me exactly what ill lose? so,
bookmarks on the browsers
contacts and messages
all apps (they're on my phone) and app data? (like will i lose my progress in temple run 2, lol)

myTouch 4g HELP said:
cannot turn on no matter what i hold.
I think the blinking last night meant that it isn't charging the battery anymore. wont even vibrate now unless it is plugged in. its not an issue with the battery is it??
if this stock image is going to delete everything anyway, i might as well send it to htc. i just hoped i might be able to save my messages because i have some really hilarious ones, but oh well.
Can you please tell me exactly what ill lose? so,
bookmarks on the browsers
contacts and messages
all apps (they're on my phone) and app data? (like will i lose my progress in temple run 2, lol)
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I don't have this phone with me ATM.but I seem to remember when you press volume UP: and POWER it if i remember correctly would do the blinking light and vibrating a few times .Anyways to get in recovery You Press Volume DOWN and press POWER at same time should bring you to recovery and if running a custom recovery such as CWM or 4EXT you can try the wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache to see if fix issue or try if using a custom ROM you can try installing the ROM again without wiping data and system first.I Read your post and the replies and correct me if I am wrong it sounds like this might work and sounds like you are able to get to recovery from reading your post I think.I would try and confirm that you are or are not able to try these suggestions before you try the boot-loader suggestion with the PD15IMG.zip or whatever it is called ,these are assuming your rooted with a custom recovery such 4EXT if not and I read wrong again I apologize. Good Luck!

alternatively you could use adb if u installed it
1. connect ur phone via usb cable.
2. run cmd from ur android-sdk folder (or whatever you named it). by running in folder I mean, ur path in cmd should be C:/whatever-is-your-sdk-folder path
3. type this in cmd window "adb reboot bootloader" (without ")
it should load your phone in bootloader from where u can get more options like factory reset or install new rom (u can mount ur sd card in recovery & put new rom to flash on sd card)

Is there a possibility to get my data back?

Hello
So a few days ago, my Huawei P8 Lite started doing strange things. The phone often stopped working , but I was still able to restart it. This morning, the screen was stuck again, so I restarted the phone . However, I was not able to put it on again. The screen remains black, and the only thing that is working, is the little light (that is turning red all the time).
I have no back-ups (I know, this is stupid), but there are some very dear pictures on it. I have been reading some guides to recover the date, but I can't figure out what to do, and the applications I've tried are not working.
If I connect the phone to my laptop, it is recognized as Fastboot 2.0. Is it possible to recover data through this? The fact that my laptop still recognizes something, does it mean the phone still works?
I don't have to money to go to a shop or recovery center, so any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Michieldgz said:
Hello
So a few days ago, my Huawei P8 Lite started doing strange things. The phone often stopped working , but I was still able to restart it. This morning, the screen was stuck again, so I restarted the phone . However, I was not able to put it on again. The screen remains black, and the only thing that is working, is the little light (that is turning red all the time).
I have no back-ups (I know, this is stupid), but there are some very dear pictures on it. I have been reading some guides to recover the date, but I can't figure out what to do, and the applications I've tried are not working.
If I connect the phone to my laptop, it is recognized as Fastboot 2.0. Is it possible to recover data through this? The fact that my laptop still recognizes something, does it mean the phone still works?
I don't have to money to go to a shop or recovery center, so any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Boot in fastboot by press and hold volume down and conect your usb cable on pc and your phone then press power button,once you are in fastboot,flash twrp recovery,then boot to recovery,once in there,conect your usb cable,you should see your memory phone