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Stucked!

Please, give me some help!
I used this to unroot theunlockr. com/2009/10/06/how-to-unroot-the-htc-magic-non-mytouchget-back-to-cupcake/. It doesn't say that it isn't for 32A. I used it, and after installing it said Wrong Id, and every time I'm booting up my phone, I can't get in, but it is only shows me the "Htc Magic" screen.
I used another cyanogen update. I did the update, but it didn't fix the problem.
Please, help me!
Thanks in advance!

It doesn't need to say if its 32A since Rogers has the 32A Magic with 288MB Ram and Sense UI now. The 32B can be unrooted with the sapphire.nbh file.The only RUU there is for the Rogers Magic.

And now, what I have to do?

giorgos147 said:
And now, what I have to do?
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If you can't get into the recovery mode or fast boot then your probably bricked.

I can get in! =)
But, what I have to do to make it again like before. I press the "wipe", but nothing happens. I have again the same problem.

giorgos147 said:
I can get in! =)
But, what I have to do to make it again like before. I press the "wipe", but nothing happens. I have again the same problem.
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Not sure which recovery your using but can you get Amon_RA 1.5.2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
After upgrading try reinserting your sd and wipe all the options.

I did this
Code:
Copy recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img to the root of your sdcard
Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)
Connect your phone via usb to your pc/mac/...
adb shell
$su (not required if you have root already)
#mount -a
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img
as I had cyanogen 1.4, but now, I am pressing Home+Power, and I can't get into the recovery menu!
(I can get into FastBoot)

giorgos147 said:
I did this
Code:
Copy recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img to the root of your sdcard
Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)
Connect your phone via usb to your pc/mac/...
adb shell
$su (not required if you have root already)
#mount -a
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img
as I had cyanogen 1.4, but now, I am pressing Home+Power, and I can't get into the recovery menu!
(I can get into FastBoot)
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Can you do it the Fastboot way?

After what I've done at the first post, I can't find any device in fastboot via
Code:
adb devices

I forgot to say something! When I am writing fastboot devices, it gives me this:

What did your phone do while this was happening?

It was working as a brand.

When you do Cam+Power can you tell me what it says, did the update change your radio or SPL.

When I am doing cam(I think cam is Home button)+Power, it doesn't do anything! It just stays at the boot screen.

giorgos147 said:
When I am doing cam(I think cam is Home button)+Power, it doesn't do anything! It just stays at the boot screen.
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Pull the battery out then, hold those buttons and see what happens.Wait, did you reboot after flashing the recovery image?

You mean to start the phone without the battery? I am doing this, but nothing happens.

Ace42 said:
Wait, did you reboot after flashing the recovery image?
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After I wrote this
Code:
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.5.2H.img
the CMD got me off of the
Code:
"#"
(if you understand what I am saying), and nothing happened then. Then, I just closed the phone and tried to open it while I was pressing Home+Power. Is there another way to reboot it?

giorgos147 said:
You mean to start the phone without the battery? I am doing this, but nothing happens.
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No, take it out then put it in and then hold the 2 buttons.

Don't forget to give a look at post #17 above yours.

giorgos147 said:
Don't forget to give a look at post #17 above yours.
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Did you have the image on your SD or computer since you used ADB.

stupid reason to take back evo to get an epic?

cause the newest evo's arent rootable? lol i just got my evo yesterday and ive searched everywhere that the newest hboot 2.02 and 3.30 cant get rooted? the evo is pretty good but im all customizations. i read that the epic is super easy to root.

It can be rooted you just have to work harder at it. Dont take it back you'll regret it.

Clearly you haven't done any searching in the Android Development section.
But that's OK. Go ahead and get an Epic. Enjoy your screwed-up GPS and all that, and make sure to change your password on here to something you won't remember, so we never have to see you again.

mainguy21 said:
cause the newest evo's arent rootable? lol i just got my evo yesterday and ive searched everywhere that the newest hboot 2.02 and 3.30 cant get rooted? the evo is pretty good but im all customizations. i read that the epic is super easy to root.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829045
there you go. Just follow the directions and make sure you use the correct file locations.

real problem
What he really meant to say is . I am 16 and have Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cant bother myself to use the search button above me nor can i follow simple written instructions on rooting phone . If it dont have one click root i wont do it ........ i have both phones and the devs on evo are much better

thats funny i just typed in the search bar root evo hboot 2.02 and the first thread was the guide on how to do it.
@op if you are going to lie about searching the forum do it somewhere else. we know when a search isnt performed.

mainguy21 said:
and ive searched everywhere
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Sure you have, buddy... sure you have.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

You have been misinformed due to stupid people making stupid and false posts such as this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9578042&postcount=8

Kingmac38 said:
What he really meant to say is . I am 16 and have Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cant bother myself to use the search button above me nor can i follow simple written instructions on rooting phone . If it dont have one click root i wont do it ........ i have both phones and the devs on evo are much better
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Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
I am 20 and have ADHD and search is my best friend plus I've followed many rooting guides successfully so op has no excuse

Second that my girls epic is a pain in the ass and she kinda of.wish she got my phonr instead
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

thanks for help even though i searched everywhere.
but since i cant root my phone im stuck in the middle of it with a red triangle can i atleast go back to my phone? like unroot or something even though i didnt get all the way to root? please thanks

Follow these revised instructions from illogos pg 121 of hboot 2.02 root guide and everything should work. I've already rooted two hboot 2.02 hw 004 and in process of doing another one now. Everything works just fine if you understand and follow the instructions. Anyways, this was a lot simpler than the old school toast part 1 and 2 root methods so acquire some knowledge so you can someday help others and not be such a newbie.

thats what i followed and im still stuck at steps 10-11..my phone says in bootloader its "s-off" but i cant get that file to read after rebooting. ive tried over and over from the start and nada i even downloaded the file like 5 times.

mainguy21 said:
thats what i followed and im still stuck at steps 10-11..my phone says in bootloader its "s-off" but i cant get that file to read after rebooting. ive tried over and over from the start and nada i even downloaded the file like 5 times.
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Which instructions though? Please follow these ones by illogos-
illogos said:
1. Make sure that you downloaded and installed HTC Sync from HTC website.
2. Unzip hboot202-s_off-V8.zip to a folder in your C: drive. I used C:\hroot
3. This hroot folder should have a folder inside it called root. If you have a folder called hboot202-s_off-V8 then you need to move all the files from that subfolder to c:\hroot.
4. In Vista/7 slick on the start button and type in cmd. You will see in the program list the command prompt. Right click and open as Administrator.
5. In the command prompt type cd c:\hroot
6. On phone goto-> Setting>Applications>Debugging make sure usb debugging is on.
7. Connect the usb cable to your computer and phone. The phone should change it's screen to ask you what type of connection mode you want. Make sure that it is on charge only. Do not mount.
8. Type into the command prompt: adb push root/unrevoked-forever.zip /sdcard/ After a pause you should see a confirmation message that states the file size and transfer speed when the file is done being pushed.
9. Type into the command prompt: adb push root/mtd-eng.img /sdcard/ After a pause you should see a confirmation message that states the file size and transfer speed when the file is done being pushed.
10. Type into the command prompt: adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-ENG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip After a pause you should see a confirmation message that states the file size and transfer speed when the file is done being pushed.
11. Type into the command prompt: adb push pc36img/PC36IMG-MR.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip After a pause you should see a confirmation message that states the file size and transfer speed when the file is done being pushed.
12. Type into the command prompt: adb push root/flash_image /data/local/ After a pause you should see a confirmation message that states the file size and transfer speed when the file is done being pushed.
13. Type into the command prompt: adb push root/rageagainstthecage /data/local/tmp After a pause you should see a confirmation message that states the file size and transfer speed when the file is done being pushed.
14. Type into the command prompt:adb shell You should see a $, this means that you are "in" the phone.
15. Type into the command prompt:chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage You should see this echoed on your screen. This is normal. You should still have $ on your cmd line.
16. Type into the command prompt: chmod 0755 /data/local/flash_image You should see this echoed on your screen. This is normal. You should still have a $ on your cmd line.
17. Type into the command prompt:./data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage A message will pop up on the screen. It will take a few seconds, and your will be kicked "out" of the phone. The $ should now be gone.
18. Type into the command prompt: adb shell You should have a # on your command line instead of a $. # means you have temporary root in your phone. If you do not have #, then start over.
19. Type into the command prompt that has #: ./data/local/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img
20. Type into the command prompt that has #: sync
21. Type into the command prompt that has #: reboot bootloader
22. Your phone will be rebooting now. Eventually your phone will be at the bootloader menu. On your phone use volume up/down to highlight bootloader and press the power button once. It will start loading the PC36img.zip file.
23.After it loads, it will ask if you want to flash. Press Volume UP to say yes. It will now flash, which can take some time. You may see some red fail messages. This is normal.
24.When it is done flashing it will ask you if you want to reboot. Press Volume Down to say now to reboot.
25. Use volume up/down to highlight recovery. Press the power button once. This will try to boot into recovery mode but fail and load a screen with a red triangle. This is normal because you have not installed recovery yet.
26. Go back to your computer screen and your command prompt. You should not have a #
27. Type into the command prompt: adb push recovery /
28. Type into the command prompt: adb shell busybox --install /sbin
29. Type into the command prompt: adb shell nohup /sbin/recovery &
30. After a pause you should see a new screen on your phone. It should be green text with your recovery options.
31. Highlight backup/restore. Press the power button. Highlight backup nand and press the power button. Press the power button again to confirm the action. Your phone is now doing a nandroid backup. This will backup your wimax keys amongst other things.
32. It will take a little time to do the backup. After it is done press the power button once to return to the recovery menu.
33. Highlight enable USB-MS and press the power button.
34. On your computer, you should see a new drive in my computer or a pop up asking you for an action. Click on Explore, or open the drive in my computer, to access your phone like you would a thumb drive.
35. Rename the file named PC36IMG.zip to PC36IMG-ENG.zip and then rename PC36IMG-MR.zip to PC36IMG.zip
36. On your phone, press the power button to disable USB-MS mode. You should be back at the recovery menu.
37. Highlight the option to flash image from zip. Press the power button.
38. Highlight unrevoked-forever.zip and press the power button. Press the power button again to confirm if told to do so.
39. When it completes flashing the image, select reboot from the menu.
40. When it reboots a few things could happen. If you think your phone is frozen, you are okay because that is a normal occurrence on this step.
----->Your phone gets "stuck" on a white screen with the word HTC on it for more than a minute. You need to take the back case off your phone and pull your battery out. Put the battery back in and put the back case on again. Hold down Volume Down and press(and release) the power button while you continue to hold down the volume down button. Your phone should go into the boot loader like it did at the start of the guide.
----->You phone started up and fully booted. You need to completely power off.Hold down Volume Down and press(and release) the power button while you continue to hold down the volume down button. Your phone should go into the boot loader like it did at the start of the guide.
----->The phone returns to the boot loader.
41. No matter which of the 3 scenarios occurred to you in the last step, you are now in the boot loader. Obviously the 3rd scenario is the best, but all are OKAY.
42. The phone should find PC36img.zip. It then loads this file and asks if you want to flash. Use volume up for yes. When it asks to reboot press volume up for yes.
43. When it is done booting, return to your computer screen and type adb shell mv /sdcard/PC36IMG.zip /sdcard/PC36IMG-MR.zip into the command prompt.
44. Type into the command prompt: adb reboot recovery
45. Highlight backup/restore in recovery and then press power. Highlight backup nand and press power. Press power again to confirm. Wait for the backup to complete.
46. Press power to return to recovery menu. Highlight reboot phone and press power.
47. Your phone is now rooted, S-OFF, and booted into stock 3.30.651.2.
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After Root:
1. Run through setup and get to the actual phone screens.
2. Try to turn on 4G/wifi/etc and see if it all works. It may not and this does not mean disaster.
For me, I had to flash Stock RUU root 3.30.651.3 to get 4G to work. Here is what I did next:
1. Download stock RUU root 3.30.651.3(I opted for Odexed version) from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836728
2. Reboot phone into recovery by completely powering off. Hold down volume down and press power. When you get into the boot loader it will try to find PC36img.zip and fail (we renamed that file remember?) and that is normal. Use volume up/down to highlight recovery and press the power button.
3. In recovery highlight USB-MS and press power to enable.
4. Your phone should be mounted as a drive in your computer again like before. Copy the whole zip file that you downloaded for RUU 3.30.651.3 rooted odexed to your phone. Wait for it to finish the transfer.
5. On your phone press power to turn off USB-MS mode.
6. On the recovery menu highlight wipe and press power.
7. Highlight the first wipe option which is something like wipe cache/factory reset. Press power. Press power again to confirm if needed.
8. Hightlight the second wipe option which is wipe cache. Press power and then press power again if needed.
9. Highlight the third wipe option which is wipe dalvik-cache. Press power and then press power again if needed.
10. Return recovery menu.
11. Hightlight flash image from zip and press power.
12. Highlight the file that you just transfered over that is for RUU 3.30.651.3 and press power. Press power again to confirm if asked. It will start flashing the image to your phone, but you will not see progress bars. It will take a few minutes.
13. When it is complete select the option to reboot the phone.
14. The phone should fully boot up into the stock rooted 3.30.651.3 rom.
15. Now try to turn 4G/wifi/etc on and make sure it works. It did for me.
16. Assuming that everything is working fine, fully power off, boot into recovery, and do another backup. This newest backup is your holy grail backup. It is stock rooted S-OFF and 4G working backup.
Note: these last 15 steps can be used to flash any custom rom too. Just make sure that you get your "holy grail" backup first before you experiment.
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my wife got an evo on black friday from radio shack and i rooted it with unrevoked in like 5 minutes.

I have adhd... I wonder if 4g transmissions cause an increase in autistic spectrum disorders!?!?
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animal7296 said:
It can be rooted you just have to work harder at it. Dont take it back you'll regret it.
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he wouldn't regret getting the epic, it's a cool ass phone. if you want a crisper lcd and a keyboard get the epic.

fixxxer2008 said:
If you want a cheap-ass plasticky POS, get the epic.
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Fixed that for you.

tejasrichard said:
Fixed that for you.
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Thank you. It seems all these Samsung phones feel like garbage. Way too flimsy. Now I have a friend with an LG Optimus S which I just rooted for her, and I have to say the build quality is very nice.

How to shutdown from fastboot/recovery etc? [Figured it out]

So I attempted to update to 3.1, got there and stupidly overwrote my boot.img with an old one attempting to root the 3.1.
So anyways, I am stuck at the M logo and until I can get a boot.img from 3.1 I want to turn the Xoom off. I have tried all the button combinations as well as I have tried 'adb reboot -p'. But the reboot -p just reboots its. So it seems it is not reading the -p part of the command.
Any other way to shutdown the xoom (aside from breaking in and pulling the battery )?
UPDATE! I was able to power down with the following:
Step 1: adb shell
Step 2: reboot -p
For some reason, the adb reboot -p command would just reboot. So doing it in shell worked..
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Also, anyone willing to pull their shiny new 3.1 boot.img for me will get a thanks!

holding the volume up button plus power should shut it down

that gets me a reboot.

eaglecomm, check your PM.

im stuck at reboot loop. can someone helpe me pls?

Power Button plus volume up.
Should be rebooting.
Wait Two (2) seconds when red Moto circle appears
Press volume down
pause a sec
Press volume up
Wait for menu - ...

bootloader mode. Vol-, power buttons do not respond

Hey guys,
I have Htc Legend with CM7.
Yesterday I turned off the phone when he was discharged.
Today, the device switches into bootloader mode, but volume and power buttons do not respond.
What should I do?
Please help

any suggestions?

robospot said:
any suggestions?
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you can try sending adb or fastboot command to reboot device (to cm7) don't know it it's possible so google the different commands you can give
or you can send adb/fastboot command to go to recovery (cwm2/3)
try googeling adb and fastboot commands for android
hope this helps a bit..

Hitmax117, thanks for your answer, but I tried it.
Logo appears after a reboot and nothing happens
Maybe something else?

robospot said:
Hitmax117, thanks for your answer, but I tried it.
Logo appears after a reboot and nothing happens
Maybe something else?
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maybe you can just take the battery out and wait for a minute...sometimes such easy things can do it...or maybe you should give it a bit more time to boot?

Boot into recovery w/o the power button

So it finally happened - the power button stopped working completely.
This wasn't much of an issue until now , but now I have to flash a new ROM.
So my only question now is how do I reboot into recovery without using the power button?

you can use apps
Duke_X said:
So it finally happened - the power button stopped working completely.
This wasn't much of an issue until now , but now I have to flash a new ROM.
So my only question now is how do I reboot into recovery without using the power button?
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if you can use your phone normally, just install an app like rom manager. it should allow you to boot into recovery without using power button.

Solution
Many thanks!
I found the solution after Googling a bit.
Just open the Terminal Emulator and type su to give superuser access
Then just type reboot recovery and viola! You're done!

Duke_X said:
Many thanks!
I found the solution after Googling a bit.
Just open the Terminal Emulator and type su to give superuser access
Then just type reboot recovery and viola! You're done!
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You can do it from a computer too.
Must have android ask and place "adb reboot recovery"
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T769.

Duke_X said:
So it finally happened - the power button stopped working completely.
This wasn't much of an issue until now , but now I have to flash a new ROM.
So my only question now is how do I reboot into recovery without using the power button?
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But how will you turn your device on normally in case it powers off ? I would like to know as i feel mine is also going to have a power button failure sooner than later.

nayneshdev said:
But how will you turn your device on normally in case it powers off ? I would like to know as i feel mine is also going to have a power button failure sooner than later.
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you can power it up by connecting the charger and quickly connect/disconnecting. by doing this your device will get little jerk and it will power on
also you can reboot by giving the jerk by quickly putting battery out-in [when device is on]
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or simple GoToServiceCenter

Yep, jerking it by attaching the charger when the battery is removed seems to be the only way to switch it on once your power button gives up.
Anybody has any other ideas?