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Advance Launcher Stuck in Infinite Loop D:

Recently I installed Advance launcher on my phone in an effort to chase away the 'oh no I may never get 2.2 oh god why' blues. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck in a force close loop. Here's what I've tried so far
1) Attempt to boot phone in safe mode. It automatically reboots itself back into normal mode within about 15 seconds of uptime. I've yet to be able to make it past the unlock screen
2) Use SEUS to flash the firmware back to defaults. Thus far, ive only used it on a windows seven machine. I'm allowed to make it to the point where it instructs me to connect the phone in flashing mode, however the phone is not recognized. I'll be trying it on a different OS tonite, however I'm concerned that this isnt going to do anything as most folks having issues with SEUS on win7 have been unable to make it past the loading screen at all, let alone phone selection and the connection screen.
Any suggestions as to the next course of action I'm to take? Using an X10a locked to Rogers Wireless. Thanks for your time

DerekGrant2 said:
Recently I installed Advance launcher on my phone in an effort to chase away the 'oh no I may never get 2.2 oh god why' blues. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck in a force close loop. Here's what I've tried so far
1) Attempt to boot phone in safe mode. It automatically reboots itself back into normal mode within about 15 seconds of uptime. I've yet to be able to make it past the unlock screen
2) Use SEUS to flash the firmware back to defaults. Thus far, ive only used it on a windows seven machine. I'm allowed to make it to the point where it instructs me to connect the phone in flashing mode, however the phone is not recognized. I'll be trying it on a different OS tonite, however I'm concerned that this isnt going to do anything as most folks having issues with SEUS on win7 have been unable to make it past the loading screen at all, let alone phone selection and the connection screen.
Any suggestions as to the next course of action I'm to take? Using an X10a locked to Rogers Wireless. Thanks for your time
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i think you need to be rooted to u that launcher...

You could try using Omnius to reset the gesture lock, that may give you abit more time??

Had the EXACT same problem just yesterday with Helix. Helix crashed on boot, unable to do anything with it, etc. Rogers, too. Couldn't boot into safe mode at all.
I used the Sony Ericsson PC Companion software and clicked the upgrade option. It gave me the option to repair. I selected repair and it told me to turn off the device, plug it into the computers USB port while holding the back button. That booted it into recovery mode and the software downloaded and installed the default ROM. That got me back up and running.
I did this from my Windows 7 partition and it worked fine.

[Q] HTC magic boot loop rooted. Need desperately HELP!!!

Hi there. I would appreciate your help here. I am a rookie with android software as I own an HTC Magic almost 3 weeks from now. My phone has the above characteristics:
SAPPHIRE PVT32A SHIP S-ON H
HBOOT-1.76.0009 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-12
RADIO-6.35.08.29
Dec 8 2009, 17:38:48
The software I had was Android 1.5 and it was rooted with RUU_Sapphire_HTC_Europe_3.05.401.1_test_signed_NoDriver ROM. I was watching on Youtube some videos about CyanogenMod 6 at HTC phones and I decided to try to put this software to my phone via ROM Manager. The result is a major disaster (or not?). Specifically, from my phone I opened ROM Manager, download rom, CyanogenMod nightlies , CM6 XXXXXXXX (can’t remember which one) EBI1 Kernel… So I had successfully downloaded it and followed the instructions while installing. After installation completed it automatically rebooted and started loop again and again. All it gets to is the "HTC MAGIC" screen and then reboots every 5 seconds. At the begging I thought that this is the installation process. 30 minutes later I had a doubt for this. I pulled out the battery cause pressing the Power on/off button nothing happened. I tried everything… nothing at all. I pressed the Power on/off button again it continued looping. After I pulled out and inserted the battery I pressed the Home and Power on/off button (Android recovery) it still continued looping. Removed again the battery and inserting again while pressing Back and Power on/off button (fastboot ) it still continued looping. I pressed Home and Back buttons and tapped Power on/off button… the same issue (continued looping). Down volume and Power on/off button… nothing. Up volume and Power on/off button… nada. Pulled out the battery for 30 minutes and tried again… nothing again. Tried again and again with the USB connected and disconnected… nothing. Still looping. I tried to install the previous Rom I had via PC but I couldn’t cause USB was connecting and disconnecting because of the rapid (5 second) boot loop. The only button which seems to work is the trackball which freezes everything with the blue led on and a black screen between the loops. I pressed all the buttons together wishing something to happen… unfortunately nothing happened. I backup my SD card and tried with an older backup I had… nothing… boot loop remains. I am despaired and tired (almost 18 hours online searching some help or solution). The only thing I want is to make fastboot work and install my old ROM via my PC… nothing else.
Please, please, please…. HELP ME!!!

well this is a pain. Your fastboot is also locked. You should read instructions and learn a bit before just flashing whatever you please. CM6 requires old radio and a different SPL. The one you're using isn't compatible, hence the reboots. You also can't get into recovery because your radio and recovery are also not compatible. I'm assuming that rom manager did that? I'm not sure, all you new people are just running that thing and flashing away without any knowledge behind it.
I don't think you're bricked but I'm not 100% sure what to do since I've kept my bootloader unlocked to run fastboot commands (which would easily solve this situation). My suggestion is to get an RUU for your phone, update and then reroot it. Maybe someone else has a better solution but right now you don't have the right recovery and fastboot is locked. At the moment, I can't think of a better solution.
edit: ugh it's late and im sleepy! i just reread what you said, you can't get into fastboot either? If not you're probably bricked

yup, I totally agree: I remember the first time I flashed a rom over the stock version which was installed. I read every sticky thread, the whole wiki page and lots of xda threads before giving flashing a try. It's just too risky to mess up an expensive phone. Just look at all the "bricked my phone, please help" threads, that alone should make one think twice (and read, read, read) before flashing...
I hope someone can still help you. But not getting into fastboot anymore?! :-(
Sorry and good luck,
V.
Sent from my HTC Magic using Tapatalk

Thanks gyes for your replies. Still I can't find a solution. The only thing I can barelly see before it boots again by pressing Back button and On/Off button is ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1.
As about the mistakes I admit that this is my fault but also I have to say that before I root my HTC I couldn't download anything from ROM Manager. After I had succesfully rooted my phone and downloaded the ROM update from my phone there was no mention about radio issues or conflicts in the installtion proccess. Even though it is my fault and I admit it. I don't mind if I loose my data (I made an SD buck up). I just want to find a way to stop this stuppid loop, make a USB connection with my PC and install my previous ROM even if I have to screw out my phone.

as I'm not able to help you myself (I'm just a user not a developer) I can only recommend checking the "bricked phone" threads for solutions. I think I saw an "how to unbrick phone" thread somewhere. Never read it though. Probably there are many others who messed up their phone somehow and lots of solutions in all those threads. Just use the search feature and look for brick threads, solutions, help, etc. Maybe you'll find something.
Sry that I can't offer more,
Greetz,
V.

It's ok my friend... Thanx 4 replying

i don't know if it's related but a guy had a bad flash and had a blue trackball toom, which you mention in first post, here is his thread on what he did to fix his phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649689&highlight=unbrick

Nope... Nothing helpfull unfortunately! Thanx anyway
A new clue is that I left my HTC magic to boot loop while the usb cable was connected with my PC dinging in and out while rebooting and after 10 minutes it stoped rebooting (it happened one's more yesterday). No button combination is responding (the trackball also) even if I keep pressing them over a minute continuesly. Also no led is lighting even if it is on USB connection. I ashume that if I remove and putt back the battery it will start again the boot loop as it happened yesterday. So I will leave it as it is and try later to restart...

Nothing... Started boot loop again

Today I gave my Magic to HTC Service. It was confirmed that the electronic circuit was "dead" and it had to be replaced. If I'm lucky maybe I wont pay a dime. It depends if the software I had on was Android compadible or not. If not then... better not think about it!

Optimus 7 bricked, cannot upgrade firmware, help?

As i have too little posts, i cannot post to the appropriate thread. Hopefully someone who knows something of these devices sees this and can help...
Fiddled with my phone and tried to update to 7720 but updating failed and phone stuck totally in "LG" boot logo.
As a last resort, decided to upgrade the firmware to EUR Open. Everything goes quite smoothly until 100% when the app tries to reset and restart the phone. Phone gets stuck again in "LG" boot logo and after a while the upgrading app gives me a notice "errnum6 open port". Cannot avoid that no matter what i do.
Help, anyone?

First, make sure you're flashing to a compatible firmware (i.e., E900h firmware for an E900h device). If your EmergencyDownload mode is still functional, try flashing again, but from a different computer and using a different microUSB cable.

Thanks Arktronic. What should happen when the app resets the phone (in 100%)? Should the phone boot up normally or does it still need a lot of time to initialize?

tkay564 said:
Thanks Arktronic. What should happen when the app resets the phone (in 100%)? Should the phone boot up normally or does it still need a lot of time to initialize?
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I don't know about your case but when I was upgrading from 7712 to 7720 the reboot stage took me over 10minutes to complete.

Yes, it might take up to 10 minutes to re-initialize. Much more than that probably means an actual brick.

Thanks for the tips. Nothing helped though and finally had to give up. Tried with two different firmwares (eur and german), computers and cables but phone could not boot up after reset. Well, you can't always win...

At least the phone starts in Emergency Download mode? (camera, volume down and then power)

My Telus Optimus 7 does this as well now. I had issues with it after restoring my NoDo backup from Mango RTM. It worked for a while, and started rebooting to a "storage card not working" error; I could usually reboot it and get it to work for a while, but at one point, no matter how many times I rebooted I could not get it to go past that message. Thought I'd flash the firmware using the instructions here, and I get exactly the same issues as tkay564. It seems like it flashes the Telus (Canada) ROM fine, until the reset phase, then it keeps rebooting the phone endlessly, never going past the LG logo. LGDP2 gives me the ErrNum6 error as well. I've tried with the Mexican ROM, did not work either.
The best I can do is reflash the phone as yes, the Emergency Download mode still works. Not that it's doing me much good.
Unfortunately, sending back the phone is going to be tricky, as I bought the phone second-hand...
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*EDIT: I've also checked the logs for the LGDP2 tool after flashing; it also reports everything as normal until it tries restarting. I'm also pursuing RMA with LG, hopefully they'll take it.

the.rider1290 said:
At least the phone starts in Emergency Download mode? (camera, volume down and then power)
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Yep it does (or did..) so pushing in a new firmware is not an issue. But getting it to boot up afterwards is..

it sounds like an hardware issue (me too I was able to flash fimrware but stuck on LG logo, they replaces the motherboard)

the.rider1290 said:
it sounds like an hardware issue (me too I was able to flash fimrware but stuck on LG logo, they replaces the motherboard)
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Got it back today. Motherboard was replaced.

Need urgent help please

Hi guys, recieved my phone back from T-Mobile all repaired and working again
I ran the Advanced Hack kit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1259821&highlight=ace+hack+kit, followed the instructions, it all went well, said it completed. Phone hung on T-Mobile flash screen for 15 mins. Pulled battery, powered up, hanging for another 15 mins.
Powered up into Hboot, still S-On.
I can access Clockwork recovery OK also.
Phone still hanging, so selected restore factory settings. Hangs at flash screen.
I restored my Back-up of RCMix3D (probably a bad idea, but ran out of things to try). Rebooted, hangs at T-Mobile screen again.
I'm pulling my hair out now, what can I try??
I wanted to try the Hack tool again, but it won't connect without the phone booted. Also, I tried running an RUU, again it won't run without the phone booted.

I just copied the stock T-Mobile PD98IMG to the SD card, updated, went smoothly, now won't boot at all

bumping to the top

All sorted now guys, attn1 helped me out loads last night, this guy's a genius!!
Big thanks to him for all the help, donation going his way on pay day!
Edit, a mod may as well close this

mushtafa said:
All sorted now guys, attn1 helped me out loads last night, this guy's a genius!!
Big thanks to him for all the help, donation going his way on pay day!
Edit, a mod may as well close this
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Well,
if you talk to attn1 again, please tell him to contact me.. I'm stuck with my dhd aswell.
My problem is:
Few months ago i rooted my unbranded DHD, installed CyanogenMod 7.1, it worked perfectly fine for a couple of months, but a few days ago, my phone was on but did not respond anymore. I tried to reboot it, but it got stuck at the white screen with the HTC logo (sometimes it bootloops, other times it freezes)
I rebooted the phone with the volume down key pressed, so it would give me that menu,
scrolled down to "Recovery", i get the recovery menu from ClockworkMod, but then my volume key does not work ! i can not do whipe or anything else, the phone freezes.
I mounted the SD card in my PC, cleared it, put a rom in root of SD card and call the rom "PD98IMG.zip" and put the SD card back in my phone. I start the phone with the volume key down pressed, i get that
white screen with the menu and it then finds the .zip file.
It then reads the image, parses the image and then tries to load "NV.img" on which my phone freezes again.
I tried CyanogenMod and LeeDroid, and a stock rom. They all do the same thing, as written above.
When i connect my phone to my PC, my pc tries to install the driver, but gives me an error, saying the device is not known. I have installed both HTC Sync and the SDK. Tried it when i had only HTC Sync
installed, did not work either.
I also tried a RUU (.exe file) but this program tells me there is no device connected...
My phone is over a year old, so i have no warenty anymore, that's why i rooted it.

HTC one M9+ unable to flash or unlock

Hello everyone,
Long time reader for time poster. I have this device that is stumping me, and I was hoping with your help I can get to the bottom of its issue.
i am not going to describe everything that I had done as that would take pages and pages, but there is one aspect that I feel might be the crux of the problem so I will start with that and see if it leads us anywhere.
Basically this device was working, sat in a drawer for a while, the battery dried up, and since it wasn't able to boot into android, it always gets stuck at the htc logo screen.
I have tried flashing it using the sd card method, with the newest corresponding zip that I could find, it started doing its thing, then at some point restarted, got stuck again, and I ended up with an unknown radio and dsp (looking at the infos in download/recovery modes)
I don't know the history of the device, but i don't believe usb debugging or oem unlocking were turned on. and obviously I can't check or modify them as I can't get into the device. and it is currently locked and S ON.
Currently, I can boot into recovery/download no problem:
- I can easily detect and interact with the phone through fastboot, but not through adb.
- clearing cache and factory resetting go through fine, no errors, but again after restarting the device it gets stuck at the htc logo.
- if I try to flash through the SD card, it starts normally, then restarts and gets stuck at the htc logo.
- if I try to flash anything through fastboot, I get an error telling me the device is still locked, which it is.
- if I try unlocking using fastboot (following the official htc method), once again it starts normally, but then restarts and gets stuck at the htc logo again.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it feels to me like this is a software issue, that for the hell of me I can't seem to be able to get around.
I tried to keep the post simple, so if any additional information is needed, or tests you'd want me to run please don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you for your help, much appreciated!

Hello again, just a little bump. As I am stuck and any ideas would help.