thanks for the help
how long did you wait before giving up?
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it sounds like the same thing I did a few days ago to my MT3G - can't fastboot, can't enter recovery, can't do anything other than stare at the splash screen. Had to have mine exchanged...
gave up after 5 min of staring at the rogers screen.
you didnt wait long enough.
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I'm in a bit of trouble here & really need some help. Basically, I can't access fastboot or get into restore mode, and loading up it just stays on the Rogers logo screen forever.
To be honest I don't remember exactly what I was doing to get to this, I think I pulled the battery after installing an update & rebooting so I could go right back into fastboot mode instead of waiting for it to boot up & then turning it off again. I'm pretty sure I've done that before though & haven't had any problems, so I'm really not sure.
Anybody have any suggestions as to what to do? Again, I can't access fastboot or restore, or really do anything with my phone, so it really makes it tough.
Anybody? I could really use some help here. I'm scared I may have bricked it.
So you take the battery out and unplug it from any USB connections, let that sit for a few seconds (to make sure it's good and off), then put the battery back in. Next you hit the back and power (to boot into fastboot) and what happens?
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So you take the battery out and unplug it from any USB connections, let that sit for a few seconds (to make sure it's good and off), then put the battery back in. Next you hit the back and power (to boot into fastboot) and what happens?
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It just goes to the Rogers screen & sits there. No matter what I try, back/power, home/power, volume/power, does the same thing. I've left it on there for a good 1-2 hours before to see if it goes anywhere, and nothing.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's bricked. Well Rogers will send me a new one, but I have to wait 8 more days since apparently it has to be at least a month old & mine was bought on July 14. There's 1 on Craigslist for $360, so I figure I'll buy that one & use it, then when the new one comes I'll sell it as a BNIB Magic & make a bit of money.
I just died a little inside knowing that they are selling for that in Canada on the craigs. If you're in the US you get a good sock in the face.
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I just died a little inside knowing that they are selling for that in Canada on the craigs. If you're in the US you get a good sock in the face.
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Lol, not to mention it's in Canadian dollars too. For used ones they generally go from around $450-$550 or so; This was up for $400 & I got it down a bit; The guy says he just got it a couple weeks ago, still in perfect condition (w/ a screen protector & case too), but he got a new job that requires Blackberrys so he has no use for it anymore. I got my original Magic in a straight up trade with somebody on CL for my Bold.
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So you take the battery out and unplug it from any USB connections, let that sit for a few seconds (to make sure it's good and off), then put the battery back in. Next you hit the back and power (to boot into fastboot) and what happens?
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Hi mate,
I'm stuck on the rogers screen as well, I can access the fastboot, and recovery but nothing happen when tried to flash any update, everything goes normal ,but on the restart the same behavior again ROGERS screen...
is it bricked ?
thanks
same thing happened to me and i thought i was bricked. but if you can still get into fastboot and recovery than you're ok.
Hi guys,
So i bought a brand new white Rogers dream (G1) phone from this guy who said that he tried to flash the G1 with a hero rom and something went wrong and now the phone is dead. When I plug the power cable, the rogers screen comes up and it stays like that (and that disappears after a short while) - the light blinks on the phone though .
I thought I could get my friend phone to fix the phone (and he agreed and asked me to buy it) just in time for my girlfriend's b'day on Saturday but that idiot decided to take off to Montreal for the rest of week.
So, I am left with this phone - and $150 out........I have looked around the internet trying to figure out a solution but I havent been able to get a starting point...
solutions?
Well, first things first, we need to find out if you have a brick or not....
Pull the battery, wait about 15 seconds, put it back in, then hold down the camera button, while still holding down the camera button press the power button until it starts turning on... release the power button, but keep holding the camera button. If it doesn't take you to 1 of 2 different screens, one will have 3 differnet colored bands, the other will have skating android guys at the bottom, you likely have a bricked phone.
It should not take more than a minute to load one of those 2 screens, but for good measure I would give it up to 5 minutes.
The other thing you can do is hold down the home button and power button when turning it on, and it should take you to a black backgrounded screen with a green text menu, that would be a "recovery screen" or it will show you a box with an arrow pointing to a phone, that would be a "you don't have recovery screen"...
If you can get to any of these screens, we can help you from there... I would test the camera plus power button first, since using that screen to flash a working ROM will be the easiest route.
let me get this straight...
You purchased a bricked phone? why would you be so cheap in the first place and buy a used phone as a present? Did you at least try to turn it on first?
If you can get to the tricolor screen I'm sure there is something someone here can do for you.
BTW, I have some unreadable CD's that I am selling which I promise will work in your disc player!
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You purchased a bricked phone? why would you be so cheap in the first place and buy a used phone as a present? Did you at least try to turn it on first?
If you can get to the tricolor screen I'm sure there is something someone here can do for you.
BTW, I have some unreadable CD's that I am selling which I promise will work in your disc player!
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LMAO this is good right here.If you can get a hold of adb there might still be hope for you.
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i am tried the home/power and camera/power but nothing........still the rogers screen....
and i turned on the phone before i bought it - It was stuck at the rogers screen. The guy gave me a brand new G1 with everything sealed + a tomtom one gps for $150 so it wasnt a bad deal.
I had read somewhere that it isnt really bricked if it turns on.
Be nice - I was just trying to get my girl something more than I can usually afford.
Unless he was stupid, he would not have given you the phone unless it was truly bricked. If camera+power does nothing, then it is most likely a bricked handset. Buy your girlfriend a working handset and eBay this one as bricked.
do you have the sdk installed?? if not you are going to need a g1 to install so you can get the drivers working. now just try what a few others got lucky with. lucky is key here. once its installed and drivers are good. open sdk and cd\ to sdk\tools blah blah. now plug the device in, type the fallowing.
adb shell reboot boot-loader
if it says waiting, then maybe you have luck. so now disconnect the device with the sdk still waiting and plug it back in right away and see if it jump starts the phone into fastboot. you can also try
adb shell reboot recovery
these are for super super lucky ppl. but you never know. in my case it worked. i think if you go screen then you most likely are not bricked but thats just my opinion. when it wont boot at all you and you get the blue LED of DOOOOMMMMM then ya no luck. but eh.
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i am tried the home/power and camera/power but nothing........still the rogers screen....
and i turned on the phone before i bought it - It was stuck at the rogers screen. The guy gave me a brand new G1 with everything sealed + a tomtom one gps for $150 so it wasnt a bad deal.
I had read somewhere that it isnt really bricked if it turns on.
Be nice - I was just trying to get my girl something more than I can usually afford.
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If cam/power and home/power don't work, then it is truly bricked. Your friend could not have fixed it anyway. The only thing you can try is as above: get the android sdk and try to get fastboot to find the phone as it switches on. This very rarely works though.
Also make sure your holding the camera + power button or home + power button long enough.
sold it....
well - i sold it 'as is' on kijiji for the price i bought it for- after trying for about 5-6 hrs (held the camera/power - power/home buttons long enough)
thanks guys again, for your input.
Lesson learned.
Ummm let me get this straight....
You bought a phone
that didn't work
so your buddy could fix it
so you could give it your GF.
But when your buddy left for the week
and you couldn't fix it yourself
you sold it for $150 via the internet
in less than 24 hours?
Either your the "God of Sales", or this whole thing is BS.
Anyone else experiencing an occasional stuck pixel.
I had one yesterday when i took my phone out of standby and there was a couple that were stuck RED on the unlock button but once i swiped to unlock they were gone.
Then i few mins ago i took it out of stand by and noticed on the lock screen but this time it was towards the top right and it was also red...same thing i unlocked it and it went away..anyone else experience this?
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Anyone else experiencing an occasional stuck pixel.
I had one yesterday when i took my phone out of standby and there was a couple that were stuck RED on the unlock button but once i swiped to unlock they were gone.
Then i few mins ago i took it out of stand by and noticed on the lock screen but this time it was towards the top right and it was also red...same thing i unlocked it and it went away..anyone else experience this?
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I'd get a replacement man... I know that's not what you want to hear, but that's what I'd do if it were my phone.
Nope i didn't want to hear that
I just ran a pixel fixing software for like 30 mins even though there are no stuck pixels and ill wait and see if it happens again if so ill have no choice but to return it...thanks
I may have a weird problem here i'll explain
I have tried the ROM 0001_WildPuzzleROM_v8.0.11 and all i see after the ROM has loaded after flashing is the lock screen which i'm really happy about.... BUT.. here's the weird bit... after i unlock the lock screen all i see is the HTC screen but without the silently whatever underneath.
I wipe the cache and factory reset phone and then Flash ROM, wait 10 mins for it to load in and then the description above comes up..
Please help as i do like the look of the ROM but it doesn't seem to working for some reason.
Well, ditch that ROM, and use the NEW Wildpuzzle here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877243
Now, as for your problem, it is normal. First boot takes ~10 minutes at most, after you see the Slide to Unlock Screen. Wait for a bit more, it will boot.
thanks for that ... yeah i kinda got a bit freaked out as i had never had a problem like that before
1) It started black screen when I was upgrading to Mango with Zune.
When restart phone and the phone could not boot up ,just into black screen.
2)The phone can enter into Download Mode(Vol up + Camera + Power).
Even I tried to flash I8700XENJK1 with Downloader 7.03, everything looks good , processing bar, success message. The only things was when finished flashing, the phone restarted and booted up into black screen and nothing could be done then.(Downloader 7.14 also tried)
3)trying Device_Update_Support_Tool_for_OMNIA7_KC3_Ver1.2.exe which runs well and no error but when came to restart phone, it still went into black screen.
4)In the black screen, I can not access Download Mode except putting out of the battery and put in again which probably means power is on in black screen.
I am not sure which problem causes this, Flash, CPU or other things. Please help me out of these troubles.Thanks.
How long did you leave it out of interest?
Mine sat at a black screen when rebooting for a good 5 minutes or so...
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How long did you leave it out of interest?
Mine sat at a black screen when rebooting for a good 5 minutes or so...
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I think when I used the Downloader 7.03 tools, there was a message of waiting for several minutes after flashing.
Beside I wait more than 10 minutes, and nothing changed.
Thanks anyway
benaustin said:
I think when I used the Downloader 7.03 tools, there was a message of waiting for several minutes after flashing.
Beside I wait more than 10 minutes, and nothing changed.
Thanks anyway
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Sorry dude, hope you get it sorted though!
Hoping for someone can help me.
When I went RTM from NoDo, I got a black screen that seriously was there for like half an hour..I put it down to my laptop being like 7 years old and nearly dead, and just left it alone, done nothing else on it and it eventually finished the update.
When I flashed on my mates computer back to NoDo, it was the quikest thing I had ever seen - updated back to mango and the black screen was there for like a minute.
The problem is, when you pulled it the first time, you really should have left it, I would have for at least an hour. I hope you haven't completely bricked your phone
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When I went RTM from NoDo, I got a black screen that seriously was there for like half an hour..I put it down to my laptop being like 7 years old and nearly dead, and just left it alone, done nothing else on it and it eventually finished the update.
When I flashed on my mates computer back to NoDo, it was the quikest thing I had ever seen - updated back to mango and the black screen was there for like a minute.
The problem is, when you pulled it the first time, you really should have left it, I would have for at least an hour. I hope you haven't completely bricked your phone
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First, thanks for sharing your update experience.
I have updated the phone several times without black screen once.So when black screen came out, I noticed there are something wrong.
Atfer this happen, I tried flash different version ROM, waiting for a long time.
Now I am hopefulless except some new flashing tools or new rom.