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Locked up, please help

Hi,
I have a tmobile MDA (wizard). I attempted to install some software on it, but disconnected and rebooted before it was complete (it appeared to be just spinning).
Now after a soft reset, screen shows only 'Windows Mobile' after booting, and none of the buttons work and I can't advance from this screen.
Is there a way to hard reset that doesn't involve using the OS (ie, I can't click on anything because it's not getting to that point).
Also in this state activesync isn't detecting device.
Thanks in advance! - Chris

Hold down (and keep holding) the camera button while depressing the reset button. Hopefully it boots into a tri-color screen. If so, plug it into the USB port and, at the bottom of the screen, it should display "USB". If that happens, flash it with a *known good rom*, such as a stock T-Mobile rom. Don't try to be clever, the object is to get the phone working. Once the flash has started, *get up and walk away* for 15 or 20 minutes. Don't check in on it, leave it alone, It takes some time. When you hear it's little chime, it's done, rebooted and ready. If any of the above doesn't happen or the flash outright fails, then you may have trashed it permanently. It doesn't sound like it's beyond hope yet, however.

i have the wizard and im having the same problem after installing a ROM from this website...it just goes to the windows mobile screen with the numbers then shuts off...id really like to save my phone is there anything else i can try because that hard reset thing isnt working

axxeman001 said:
Hi,
I have a tmobile MDA (wizard). I attempted to install some software on it, but disconnected and rebooted before it was complete (it appeared to be just spinning).
Now after a soft reset, screen shows only 'Windows Mobile' after booting, and none of the buttons work and I can't advance from this screen.
Is there a way to hard reset that doesn't involve using the OS (ie, I can't click on anything because it's not getting to that point).
Also in this state activesync isn't detecting device.
Thanks in advance! - Chris
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Well same thing happened to me a few days back.. I had to Cold Reset [which restored it to factory defaults], but hey I got it working again..
Press Communication Button [Top Left] and Record Button [Top Right] at the same time and use the stylus to soft reset..
You will get a black screen, asking you to press "Send" to reset to "Factory defaults"
Press "Send".
Hopefully you should get your MDA working again ...
I read the "Above" in the HTC Wizard Service Manual [PDF] on the *last page* under the "Cold-reset" Section..

Troubles with hardreset

Yeserday my herald blocked couple of times and sometimes even the screen got blurry. After this he didn't respond the on/off button or softreset button.
So today I did a hard reset, after the black screen appears, I pressed yes, but the he stops and a green screen appears.
Couple of weeks ago I did a upgrade to WM6(did had any problems at all until now)

Try rerunning whatever RUU you used to upgrade it.

duprade said:
Try rerunning whatever RUU you used to upgrade it.
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And if I can't boot my phone and so cannot make a connection to pc...
Tried hardreset, screen turns into green after I pressed yes button to format
Tried to hold cam.button while soft reset, screen turns into green and red colors...
This sucks

ZipSP195 said:
And if I can't boot my phone and so cannot make a connection to pc...
Tried hardreset, screen turns into green after I pressed yes button to format
Tried to hold cam.button while soft reset, screen turns into green and red colors...
This sucks
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The "green and red" screen is the bootscreen. You can run the RUU from that screen even "without" activesync "seeing" the device.
Have you been overclocking your phone?

As long as your device says "USB" in the bottom left corner when you're connected to your computer in bootloader... you'll be fine. Just run the RUU executable.

No, no overclocking.
Only recenlty(read:1month ago) update from WM5 to WM6(got it van htc e-club) haven't got any probs until sundaynight
No additional software, only tomtom

So I got the latest ruu from smart-phones.be and it stops after 2%
giving the error code 244(like all the other ruu I tried)
I guess I'm in big trouble now?

Is your phone HardSPLed? If so, a normal RUU will fail when you try to flash it.

No, I didn't Hardspl'ed it
I tried many different ways but nothing works. Maybe I haven't read carefully enough the instructions

Place it into bootloader mode (hold down the camera and hit the reset button.) Then try to reflash the RUU. If it doesn't work, then your phone just decided to cook itself. Try the official RUU. If that IS the official RUU, then you might want to contact your phone carrier or the nearest repair center. The phone might have just chosen a bad time to malfunction. The errors you were getting sounded like an overclocking issue frying the device... or just the CPU overheating by itself.

Well, now your talking about heating cpu
i've noticed on last moment when the phone worked normally, he felt hot :s
let's go to the shop
thx

here the trick of reset HERA100
100% working i tested. htc HERA100, T-MOBILE WING.
BR, SAF470

Help!! Tmobile Wing Dead!

Hi,
Yesterday, all of a sudden, my Tmobile Wing started vibrating and it wouldn't stop. I took a look at it and the front two lights displayed red and blue during this vibration episode. The only way I could stop it was by taking the battery out. After reinstalling it, I did a soft boot and it turned back on and worked perfectly fine for about eight more hours. Then, last night, it started vibrating again on it's own so I did the same exact thing as earlier in the day.
This time, it did not respond to a soft boot. It won't respond to a hard boot either. It won't take a charge (or at register it's taking a charge). Nothing!
The only thing that displays is a little BLUE light on the keyboard where it says, ALT. If I remove the battery, the light goes out. Once I insert the battery again, the blue Alt light goes back on. The phone is completely dead otherwise.
I have not done any hacks, updates, changes whatsoever. It didn't get wet and was not dropped.
Any possible ideas what the little blue light is supposed to mean? It's got to be some kind of service code or something? I'm pretty sure the battery still has a charge, but I haven't tried a new one. I even tried the plugging in the AC adapter and the phone still wouldn't respond at all. Is there any reason to think the computer would recognize it with the USB cable when it won't even power up?
Any solutions or where to turn with this thing? I think the little blue ALT light must signify some error code possibly......
Thanks.

it's the ALT key..
so you can input the blue characters on the keyboard.
you're phone is possessed.. sorry

can it go into bootloader mode(hold camera key and pole hole on side)?
if it can just flash a new rom into it or the original tmobile stock rom.

Have you hard-resetted your phone?
Which ROM are you using?

mv3, the answers to your questions.
Brudha said:
It won't respond to a hard boot either. I have not done any hacks, updates, changes whatsoever. It didn't get wet and was not dropped.
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Hey I Install The Cube And Enable It But How Do I Run It Like How To I Turn It On What Button Am I Suppose To Put

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Hey I Install The Cube And Enable It But How Do I Run It Like How To I Turn It On What Button Am I Suppose To Put

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Hey I Install The Cube And Enable It But How Do I Run It Like How To I Turn It On What Button Am I Suppose To Put
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what cube did you install?
well install ftouchflo config by schaps and enable ftouchflo
i suggest you uninstall your cube and install slithers cube here.
then either get ftouchflo config or get the _ftouchflo_config.txt file from the windows folder and make the down-up gesture to be slithers cube.

kidnamedAlbert said:
mv3, the answers to your questions.
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uhmm...no.
hard boot does not = hard-reset.
boot = to load your device.
there's no such thing as a hard boot or is there?
i assumed this person meant a power cycle..because if the device is not booting even after performing a hard reset command via hardware keys..blablablah..
saying you have a wing does not mention which of the stock ROMs is on the device.
so yeah... my questions werent answered.. :/

mv3 said:
uhmm...no.
hard boot does not = hard-reset.
boot = to load your device.
there's no such thing as a hard boot or is there?
i assumed this person meant a power cycle..because if the device is not booting even after performing a hard reset command via hardware keys..blablablah..
saying you have a wing does not mention which of the stock ROMs is on the device.
so yeah... my questions werent answered.. :/
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I might be using the words 'reboot' and 'reset' interchangeably (incorrect or not). What I have attempted to do is a soft reset by depressing the little hole by the volume control. This is what worked the first time for me. The phone will NOT respond to that now.
In attempting a hard reset, I pressed the two buttons on the front marked with a '-' at the same time as depressing the same hole. Nothing responds to this at all. Is this the corrrect procedure for a factory reset?
I'm not sure the exact ROM installed. I have not changed it at all since the phone was purchased, so it's original. Since the phone doesn't even work now, doesn't seem like I can find out the ROM version.

Brudha said:
I might be using the words 'reboot' and 'reset' interchangeably (incorrect or not). What I have attempted to do is a soft reset by depressing the little hole by the volume control. This is what worked the first time for me. The phone will NOT respond to that now.
In attempting a hard reset, I pressed the two buttons on the front marked with a '-' at the same time as depressing the same hole. Nothing responds to this at all. Is this the corrrect procedure for a factory reset?
I'm not sure the exact ROM installed. I have not changed it at all since the phone was purchased, so it's original. Since the phone doesn't even work now, doesn't seem like I can find out the ROM version.
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continue holding the 2 soft keys, don't release. a warning should appear.. if you press the 'Send' key... the send call/talk/etc button.. then it should initiate a dealer specified ("hard")reset.. if you press any other buttons, it will ignore the attempted hard reset.
if that doesn't happen.. then that's very uncool....

Well, after trying just about everything, I've pretty much accepted there's got to be some sort of 'short' to the motherboard. I think the ALT light constantly on signifies the phone thinks that key is indefinitely in a depressed state. Or something like that...........

same thing happened to my phone. does anyone know if there's a known fix for this?

update trouble: bad usb connection?

Hi all,
I appreciate any help here as i'm relatively new to this.
I have a hermes with the sprint rom update and that's it. I was recently trying to update to a different rom and I keep running into the same error. I don't know what my bootloader version is, and the ok power and reset button doesn't bring me into that mode. my camera button does, and I also don't see any of the spl information that's asked to be picked. However I just do the force, and it almost works and It brings up the screen where it actually should start loading...however here comes the problem. it keeps telling me that theres a usb connection problem.. I have several chords and tried them all and nothing seems to work. I checked other forums for this problem and found none..although I am horrible at looking. any help would be much appreciated. thanks!

Did you HOLD the three buttons (ok, power and reset button) in until the phone reset?
I'd say to try the sd card method but 1st you need to install Hard SPL to make sure you CAN FIX it if something goes wrong then upgrade your rom. If you haven't flashed any other rom before I'd bet my bottom dollar you have a "dangerous" SPL to try flashing with.
Try the three buttons again like I said then, if your SPL isn't 2.10 olipro (yeah, right), read this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296722
It will provide you with the right tools to start flashing.
Cheers....

thanks for the help. however the ok button still isn't doing it. is this common? I can only assume the mode where the three color bars displayed on the screen is the boot loader. and I see nothing about olipro. I hold the ok power and reset button and it boots upp like a regular soft reset. but with power camer and rese, then its colored screen. I'm not sure if this makes any difference...

myhollowworld said:
thanks for the help. however the ok button still isn't doing it. is this common? I can only assume the mode where the three color bars displayed on the screen is the boot loader. and I see nothing about olipro. I hold the ok power and reset button and it boots upp like a regular soft reset. but with power camer and rese, then its colored screen. I'm not sure if this makes any difference...
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Can you post a photo of your device , just to make sure its a Hermes we are dealing with here, also where the buttons are would help

Hi there, your sprint mogul is a Titan
HTC TyTn = HTC Hermes
Sprint/HTC Mogul = HTC Titan
Thread moved to the appropriate forum. good luck
Heres a link to the Titan wiki.

Need some help, can't get into bootloader

Hey everyone.
I've followed the guides on trinityguides, installed Olipro's Hard-SPL 1.2, installed new radio, and then proceeded to install a new rom with WM 6.1. Since it hung on startup, i've tried a different rom, but with similar results. Then i tried to make a hard reset to see if it helped, but still freezes.
I've wanted to restore the original rom, but now i can't get into bootloader!! I can get into the hard reset menu, but if i hold the buttons to get into the loader, nothing happens!! I've searched a bit around the foruns, and read to leave the phone without battery for a week and try again, just did that and didn't help...
I'm really out of ideas. Did i kill the device? Is there anything that can be done? All i can do now is turn it on, shows some windows loading screen and nothing happens.
*EDIT - When the screen dims down, does any button work to light it up? I've noticed that when i press the camera button it doesnt light up, but it does with every other button, including the screen... Maybe its just the camera button that got stuck/broken? Anyway to "unstuck" it/check it?

I opened up the phone, and the camera button was indeed broken. I soldered it back into the motherboard and it's working.