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Phone goes straight to bootloader

Hi,
Forgive my noobishness but it's late and I hate doing this lol.
So I rooted my phone way back when it was just JF. When I turn on my phone with Home and Power I get a screen with yellow text and a white and black background. I assume this is the bootloader?
Anyway I recently showed my friend over msn the new guide on rooting. Went fine. Today I tell him about Ion. So he updates his radio, then the SPL and now when he turns it on it keeps booting to a screen with a phone and a ! in a triangle. Alt L shows commands etc. So it keeps booting to this screen. Fair enough we need to now update with Ion. However he doesn't have a SD card reader so I have no idea how to get the update on his card.
I'm thinking adb but I don't know how to go around setting that up seeing as his phone wont boot.
Anybody care to help me out? Thanks for your time.

The screen you are seeing with the yellow text is not the bootloader, its the recovery utility.
Camera+power gets to the bootloader
Home+power gets to the recovery
You can put the update.zip on your card and then put it in his phone to flash it that way.
Check out this page for adb help :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3820215

After installing the new SPL. you have to install the rom. So basical;y, if he wants ion. just rename it as update.zip, place it in the SD, turn off the phone, hold Home+power, goes into the recovery console, do a Alt+W, then Alt+s.

[Help] How to prevent the phone from auto booting?

Hi all,
I dunno if any of my steps goes wrong, but my phone keeps auto booting even i dont push the RED button, even i remove the battery and put it back again, it keeps auto booting so i cant choose fastboot mode or recovery mode.
All i did is:
- fastboot boot recovery-RAv1.2.1H.img
- choose Apply sdcard:choose zip and select update.Engineering-SPL-HBOOT-1.33.2004-signed.zip
Is it bricked? Could anyone help?
Thanks in advance.

1st off wrong section man you gotta take this to general...
2nd try press and hold home and power see if you go into recovery...if you do then your not bricked.

sorry i'll move this to general

so did you get it to work?

no i cant boot to recovery or fastboot, it just keep showing the htc splash screen, i'll take it to the htc care guys to see if they could help me. thanks btw

is your phone plugged into your PC when this happens? Dumb I know but when my phone is plugged into my pc it autoboots

Yes i realized it afterwards, i just unplug the usb cable and it stops auto-booting, but i cant reach the recovery and fastboot afterwards. Anyway, i've already take it to the customer service and seems that they have way to flush back all the software part and i could have my magic 3 days later
Actually i just wonder which step is wrong for me, should i root the spl before flashing a new one? or i should just skip it? i wanted to know this more

Unable to flash with RUU

I did all the steps to root the phone, 1 and 2, but got stuck in a bootloop. The sprint log stuff would come up, the the 4g, then back to sprint etc. I flashed the PC36IMG.zip of the shipped version, but now I can't get the RUU to take the phone into a fully factory state. It starts, then gets stuck waiting for bootloader with a black screen and htc on it. I really just want to make it factory again and start over with the root process. Any ideas?

Hold power and volume when turning on phone, then select fastboot and have the selection for bootloader highlighted, then start the RUU it should work then.

OK, so I tried the volume down + power btn deal, but still no dice. I really don't undestand wtf happened, cause before doing the 2nd part of root, I was able to load Damage ROM, now anything I load besides the PC36IMG.zip from part 1 just bootloops. Crazy

control_logic said:
I did all the steps to root the phone, 1 and 2, but got stuck in a bootloop. The sprint log stuff would come up, the the 4g, then back to sprint etc. I flashed the PC36IMG.zip of the shipped version, but now I can't get the RUU to take the phone into a fully factory state. It starts, then gets stuck waiting for bootloader with a black screen and htc on it. I really just want to make it factory again and start over with the root process. Any ideas?
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ive seen this answered in the RUU threads. they mentioned the RUU doesn't automatically reboot the phone into the correct mode, i think it was bootloader? manually booting it into the correct mode, then connecting the USB, resolved the issue.
you might want to search/reference the RUU threads for more details as i never had the issue and am only recalling off the top of my head what ive read, which cant be 100% accurate!

When RUU stops/freezes and your phone has the black screen with "HTC" on it.... do not restart your phone or anything leave it the way it is. What you do is exit out of the RUU program by clicking "exit" when it freezes up. Then without doing anything to the phone, just restart the RUU program and it should pick up where it left off and complete the process. I found this fix in "Q and A" part of the Evo forum and it worked for me.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

You need to format the phone rest and format cashe then install the rooted image and it will boot. I had the same problem.

Thanks for the responses, it is working again, YEAH!

[Q] Help can't get into recovery and APX mode

First of all appologies if I started another thread on this topic. I am very green with Android and am now unable to get past my latest screwup! I had CMod 10 on my device but it kept freezing in the browser. I also had Skrillax recovery on it. I wanted to revert back to OTA stock Rom so got the following ROM from this Forum Post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816560
Acer_A500_0.000.00_041.121.01_COM_GEN1: ftp://94.23.233.147/Tablets/A500/Ace...5_78277167.zip
I decrypted it, extracted the update.zip and applied it to my tablet as instructed in the post. Upon completion it restarts and goes into this loop at the Silver android screen! I tried to go into Recovery and get the dead Android with the red Exclamation mark. I can reapply the same update.zip file and it seems to go through things again but every time I get the same end result looping silver android loop. HELP! please! If I try to use another stock update file it only get me to the dead android guy with red exclamation mark. I have tried to put this into APX mode but it does not want to go there at all.
Is there anybody out there that can take a little pity on a fool like me to get this thing back up again?
I don't care about the data at this point and which version I get back to. I also do not have my CPUID and can't seem to get to it. Thanks in advance to anyone who could point me in the right direction or better yet walk me through this.

Dead android guy is what I get after root the tab and try to get to stock recovery WITHOUT unlocking the bootloader
DId you try the manual way to go APX, push the reset button with a paper clip and hold power button? If you can get to APX you can use A500 manager tool from this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25891744&postcount=44
you can try unlocking the bootloader which then result in bootable recovery
or check out this guy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874345
similar problem trying to get stock ROM back

pinmemo said:
Dead android guy is what I get after root the tab and try to get to stock recovery WITHOUT unlocking the bootloader
DId you try the manual way to go APX, push the reset button with a paper clip and hold power button? If you can get to APX you can use A500 manager tool from this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25891744&postcount=44
you can try unlocking the bootloader which then result in bootable recovery
or check out this guy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874345
similar problem trying to get stock ROM back
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Ok so now can get in APX mode but it says debugging is not on, I can't get in to turn it on? Is there a way to get the bootloader back to the Skrillax version via update.zip file? I will keep reading these posts but still can't seem to get APX mode right.

mdlevesque said:
Ok so now can get in APX mode but it says debugging is not on, I can't get in to turn it on? Is there a way to get the bootloader back to the Skrillax version via update.zip file? I will keep reading these posts but still can't seem to get APX mode right.
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First of all a million thanks to Happy who pointed me in the right direction! I appreciate the help buddy! I was finally able to get my device working by following the first post by manually installing Thors v1.7.3 bootloader. Once I got the bootloader back I just reinstalled one of the custom ROMS and voila! back in operation. Most appreciative...
The link again is the following and you do not have to have debug mode on to do the manual flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25891744&postcount=44
Mike:victory:

mdlevesque said:
First of all a million thanks to Happy who pointed me in the right direction! I appreciate the help buddy! I was finally able to get my device working by following the first post by manually installing Thors v1.7.3 bootloader. Once I got the bootloader back I just reinstalled one of the custom ROMS and voila! back in operation. Most appreciative...
The link again is the following and you do not have to have debug mode on to do the manual flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25891744&postcount=44
Mike:victory:
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Congratulations! you successfully resurrected a dead droid!

[Q] Downgraded to 2.26.20 now no wipe recovery and os is unresponsive?!?!

Hi guys, back to this phone and beginning to think i wasted my time again getting this phone again.. smh.. I downgraded the os from a version higher than 2.26.20. Flash the sbf correctly with these instructions...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165672
Now when i boot the phone, i cant go into recover meny to wipe the system (Shows a triangle and android, buttons do nothing), also.. when the os loads up, the wallpaper is black and i can only go to the apps menu.. NOTHING launches..flash a few times, no success.
I am guessing the bootloader needs to be downgraded or another file has to be flashed??
Any advice?? so annoyed -_-

jxs714 said:
Hi guys, back to this phone and beginning to think i wasted my time again getting this phone again.. smh.. I downgraded the os from a version higher than 2.26.20. Flash the sbf correctly with these instructions...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165672
Now when i boot the phone, i cant go into recover meny to wipe the system (Shows a triangle and android, buttons do nothing), also.. when the os loads up, the wallpaper is black and i can only go to the apps menu.. NOTHING launches..flash a few times, no success.
I am guessing the bootloader needs to be downgraded or another file has to be flashed??
Any advice?? so annoyed -_-
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I hope you tried this:
http://www.hard-reset.com/motorola-droid-pro-xt610-hard-reset.html
If not, please try, if this don't help, try to access download mode:
When phone is off, hold both volume buttons and power on. Release volume buttons when you see black screen with bootloader.