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Unbrick Using ADB

If this is in the wrong area please mods answer and redirect it into the correct area.
I was wondering if your phone is looped at the first bootloader screen and you cannot access recovery or bootloader is there a way to unbrick your device using a code in the adb?
Please answer...... and move if nessasary.
Thank You

I had been running Cyanogen 3.5.2 and then switched to JACHero 2.2 to see the changes. Then when I tried to switch back to Cyanogen and I kept getting the bootloop. No matter what I did, wipe, flash, wipe again, flash again. Nothing. I assume it might have something to do with the Apps2SD setup but I have no idea. I just reflashed back to JACHero and it is working fine.

chuckhriczko said:
I had been running Cyanogen 3.5.2 and then switched to JACHero 2.2 to see the changes. Then when I tried to switch back to Cyanogen and I kept getting the bootloop. No matter what I did, wipe, flash, wipe again, flash again. Nothing. I assume it might have something to do with the Apps2SD setup but I have no idea. I just reflashed back to JACHero and it is working fine.
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Did you reflash using the ABD. If you did not then you would have to use the recovery or bootloader mode on the device. Therefore not using the abd commands at all. Im not bashing you or anything btw.

about cyan to jachero same happened to me... it has somthing to do with apps2sd your correct. somthing like the .odex files from hero saving on ur sd partion and ruining the whole setup on cyans. so what i did was use paragon partion manager to completely reformat my sd card and then remade my ext3 partion on it. and it works fine. im never switching off of cyans rom thoe. anymore to much of a headache and stuff.
(as you can tell im drunk and i really dont understand all this rom lingo lol bare with me i hope i helped you?)

nickryan0612 said:
If this is in the wrong area please mods answer and redirect it into the correct area.
I was wondering if your phone is looped at the first bootloader screen and you cannot access recovery or bootloader is there a way to unbrick your device using a code in the adb?
Please answer...... and move if nessasary.
Thank You
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There are other posts on this but if you can't get into recovery or bootloader you are toast adb may not connect(really it should connect to adb when on the boot screen but many have been through this and haven't been able to get their phones working. I bet you tried flashing the Haykuro SPL("Danger" SPL) right?
It is brick you will have to look into a replacement/exchange if possible.

savethechicken said:
There are other posts on this but if you can't get into recovery or bootloader you are toast adb may not connect(really it should connect to adb when on the boot screen but many have been through this and haven't been able to get their phones working. I bet you tried flashing the Haykuro SPL("Danger" SPL) right?
It is brick you will have to look into a replacement/exchange if possible.
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Oh no was just wondering cause i am thinking about rooting my phone but under the right direction. Not the posts they have here cause they are to hard to follow. If you or someone could help me i only wanna upgrade to a hero that has flash player and can put notifications out like this one : http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3...AFD4/6TWLdeIi3VY/s400/rosie7-lock-screen2.jpg

I also had bootloop when switching back from jachero to Dude's 1.3. I had to pull the battery out to get it to shut down, but then I was able to use recovery to flash Dude's... how is it that you're unable to get into recovery mode? Have you tried pulling ythe battery?

ohnoezmahfone said:
I also had bootloop when switching back from jachero to Dude's 1.3. I had to pull the battery out to get it to shut down, but then I was able to use recovery to flash Dude's... how is it that you're unable to get into recovery mode? Have you tried pulling ythe battery?
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If you mess up the SPL you can't get into recovery. The only known method of messing up the SPL is with the "Hero" SPL (afaik, without manually trying to brick your phone).
If you get a bootloop, make sure you wiped AND completely cleared your ext2/ext3 partition with apps2sd. That always seems to cause a bootloop.

Stuck on boot logo (green mytouch logo)

Okay so I just got the phone today and though I knew how to root it and whatnot. So, I followed this guide: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/. Everything was working fine until I tried to install this theme (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493434) as update.zip.
Now I am stuck at the green "MyTouch" boot logo and cannot start my phone. I would like to get this fixed asap but I don't know how. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be awesome. Thanks guys.

to me it sounds like bad flash/download
the only thing i'd suggest is wipe, then reflash the rom
then redownload the theme
then reflash it(no wipe)
and it should work
oh and sometimes themes first load up take time give it 15 minutes tops
if it doesn't work
then do as i said

I tried factory wipe like 10 times and I'm still stuck at the boot logo. I don't really care if I have root anymore, so what can I do to just get my phone back to normal? Meaning, how can I just get my phone to start up? What file would I need to flash to get it back to normal? (Can you try and be specific as I am still learning)
Also, I can't add anything to the SD card cause my phone won't fully start up, so I guess I'll have to buy a SD reader tomorrow?

Hmmm what if I flashed the nibh file using fastboot (the file meant for unrooting the phone). Anyone think that'd work?
Someone please help...I'm totally freaking out and it's so discouraging just having bought this phone and now I can't use it

jabbawalkee said:
Hmmm what if I flashed the nibh file using fastboot (the file meant for unrooting the phone). Anyone think that'd work?
Someone please help...I'm totally freaking out and it's so discouraging just having bought this phone and now I can't use it
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you need a fresh install of cyan 4.0.4 then try to flash the theme\
wipe,, flash cm-4.0.4 let is bootup then flash the theme ... Don't do what some idots do ,, flash then wipe ,, its wipe then flash,,you must let it boot after the fresh install ......

To answer your ? Bout unrooting, yes the dreaimg.nbh meant for downgrading so you can root is also the same file to unroot, just flash it in fastboot or the bootloader and it will take you back to stock.
If you are running cm recovery 1.4, you can mount your sd card in the recovery console
By typing ums_enable to mount and ums_disable to unmount than type reboot or recovery to exit the console

gridlock32404 said:
To answer your ? Bout unrooting, yes the dreaimg.nbh meant for downgrading so you can root is also the same file to unroot, just flash it in fastboot or the bootloader and it will take you back to stock.
If you are running cm recovery 1.4, you can mount your sd card in the recovery console
By typing ums_enable to mount and ums_disable to unmount than type reboot or recovery to exit the console
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Hmm I'm gonna try this method in a minute, but, one question, how can I type ums_enable/disable on the mytouch while on recovery?

Okay so I fixed it. I simply bought an SD card reader, placed the sappimg.nbh file on my sd card. Booted with Volume Down + Power and then flashed the sappimg.nbh and now my phone has finally started up thanks!

gridlock32404 said:
To answer your ? Bout unrooting, yes the dreaimg.nbh meant for downgrading so you can root is also the same file to unroot, just flash it in fastboot or the bootloader and it will take you back to stock.
If you are running cm recovery 1.4, you can mount your sd card in the recovery console
By typing ums_enable to mount and ums_disable to unmount than type reboot or recovery to exit the console
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are you wearing marijuana goggles? he is on a mytouch lol. maybe if he draws the letters onscreen it will work, or maybe he can plug a keyboard into the mini usb on the mytouch if he has a usb to mini usb adapter.

i was wearing hangover glasses, just made the assumption that it was a g1 since we are in the dream forum and not the mytouch one, oh by the way hershey was fun, i rode all the big kids ride and i did not cry once
aren't yous all so proud of me

At first I was thinking he flashed the sappimg.nbh to a Dream, lol @ Marijuana goggles.

Ginger yoshi
i was trying to install ginger yoshi, everything went fine but i get stuck on bootlogo every time. any sugesstions?
ps............... is WTF BOOM! a bad thing because it says that when it is finished

fraserdey said:
i was trying to install ginger yoshi, everything went fine but i get stuck on bootlogo every time. any sugesstions?
ps............... is WTF BOOM! a bad thing because it says that when it is finished
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What SPL and radio are you on?

clockwork partition woes

So im rooted, clockworked and nandroided. i go into rom manager and attempt to partition the sd, everything looks like it went fine. i get the samsung splash tmo bootup then it goes from the S splash screen to what seems to be a soft brick, just a blank screen and four lit up buttons. i try to boot into clockwork and i get the factory recovery mode. Clockwork is nowhere to be found. my sd card appears to be partitioned it shows a 14.8g card on a 16g, but the sd card still has everything on it, it did not get wiped. i have tried using odin, all that happens there is it runs through the motions, resets the phone back into this soft brick. anyone have similar issues or helpful ideas? i will be slowly bashing my head into the wall waiting for a reply. thanks in advance, any help will be appreciated

Same Problems Here
I came on to post and hopefully find a solution for a very similar problem. I rooted, clockworked, and nandroided my vibrant this morning and it worked fine all day. I got home and realized my phone was locked and didn't respond to the unlock button. I pulled the battery and rebooted and it all seemed fine. 5 minutes later i realized it wasn't responsive and once again pulled the battery and now won't boot past the "S" boot screen and seems to freeze. Now my clockwork restore won't backup and says it can't mount. I've tried a factory reset to no avail. Anytime I attempt a clockwork recovery I get the error
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(file exists)
Can't mount /data/!
Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm having the same issue, any help would be greatly appreciated.

did anyone get any help??

Same thing happened to me. I posted such on the market comment for rom manager. I ended up taking mine back to Best Buy (got another). I'm wanting to install linux on mine. Anyone been able to do that?

I hate to tell you this but you just partitioned the internal memory. If you had actually read the thread on clockwork recovery you would have seen that you cannot currently partition the external sd card with clockwork.

so what do i do??

nickerrides said:
so what do i do??
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I honestly don't know the answer to that question. I'm kind of a casual flasher of my phones and I've never "bricked" one or had any major problem. I believe it can be fixed by using odin to flash back to stock. I'm pretty sure that you can recovery from it but it may take some work.
I would start by reading the entire clockwork recovery thread in the Android Development section. A few other people have made that mistake and may have a solution posted there. I'm at work posting from my phone or I would go look and try and find it.

Okay, I did some digging in that thread and it appears all you need to do is to use the re-partition option in Odin and then use Odin to flash a stock ROM and you should be all set.
Again, I have not used Odin myself so I don't know how easy/hard that is to do or if it will work at all.

nope i tried the repartition option in odin while flashing the stock rom.

With mine, I had success and got it out of the boot loop by using odin and flashing it back to stock.
The phone seems unbrickable, as
others have mentioned, just get it into download mode and use odin carefully.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

wanna be more specific on what exactly you did?

[Q] Stuck in Bootloop

Okay... I have seen you alot in the q and a and you seem to be super helpfull.
I was wondering if you could please please please help me!!
let me tell you where i was. Okay so on my mytouch 4g i was running fauxs new 2.3 leak http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059379
And i saw that he put out a new kernal. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079754
And i wanted to give it a go. So followed all the steps... wipe cash and dalvik everthing was going perfect. Then it rebooted, and i got stuck in a bootloop. Witch not a big deal just go back to recovery.
Well I did and it went into Hboot it tries to load some image and fails. And then the only option it gives me is to update this radio_v2 thing.
So I think my recovery is broken. PLEASE HELP ( what steps do i need to do now? I havent ever worked with adb or hboot engineering.
I used the visionary root method i had s off

Jerald2 said:
Okay... I have seen you alot in the q and a and you seem to be super helpfull.
I was wondering if you could please please please help me!!
let me tell you where i was. Okay so on my mytouch 4g i was running fauxs new 2.3 leak http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059379
And i saw that he put out a new kernal. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079754
And i wanted to give it a go. So followed all the steps... wipe cash and dalvik everthing was going perfect. Then it rebooted, and i got stuck in a bootloop. Witch not a big deal just go back to recovery.
Well I did and it went into Hboot it tries to load some image and fails. And then the only option it gives me is to update this radio_v2 thing.
So I think my recovery is broken. PLEASE HELP ( what steps do i need to do now? I havent ever worked with adb or hboot engineering.
I used the visionary root method i had s off
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If your computer has an SD reader use a micro SD adapter to delete the pdi15.img from the root of your card. Then you will be able to then boot back into recovery and flash the rom or new kernel again. I hope this helps you out.
Edit: pd151.img
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Lol wow - I am in this exact same scenario - placed both kernel and radio on my sd card, flashed the kernel, got stuck at boot loop, and can't get back to recovery to flash the "first time" kernel because hboot only gives me the option of updating radio...
So...I unfortunately don't have an sd card reader on my computer to easily remove the pd15 radio file...is there any way around this? Or is removing the pd15 file from my sd card the only solution??
Ok...I remembered my girlfriend's computer has an sd card reader, I put mine in, and when I try to remove the pd15 radio file, it says it can't be deleted...WTF!? What should I do??
So it looks like the card is "read only" on my girlfriend's computer...but I can't put it into my computer to change the read/write permissions!!! Argh...!!!

I sorted it out....phew! I mounted a different sd card via my phone, fixed the kernel issue by running 'firs time' kernel, and was able to power up phone. Looking good now.

Jerald2 said:
Okay... I have seen you alot in the q and a and you seem to be super helpfull.
I was wondering if you could please please please help me!!
let me tell you where i was. Okay so on my mytouch 4g i was running fauxs new 2.3 leak http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059379
And i saw that he put out a new kernal. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079754
And i wanted to give it a go. So followed all the steps... wipe cash and dalvik everthing was going perfect. Then it rebooted, and i got stuck in a bootloop. Witch not a big deal just go back to recovery.
Well I did and it went into Hboot it tries to load some image and fails. And then the only option it gives me is to update this radio_v2 thing.
So I think my recovery is broken. PLEASE HELP ( what steps do i need to do now? I havent ever worked with adb or hboot engineering.
I used the visionary root method i had s off
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Move the pdm15.zip off you micro card or rename it,thats why you can't get to recovery
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Fixed!!
I fixed it thanks to you guys! I put my sd card in my moms phone and deleted it then tried agian this time getting into recovery
flashed the first time kernal and worked like a charm. Thanks guys!! One problem I did notice is when i over clocked the phone completely froze any solutions?

Possibly bricked.

Ok.. so.
I had a not-working clockwork mod, and like an idiot I used the rom manager via android to flash a new rom. So - that rom is stuck in its boot up logo over and over (team kang). And isn't moving despite waiting 10 minutes, and my clockwork mod is non functional. I can see the options in CMW but if I click one of them - I dont get the options to chose a zip/it does reboot. It simply gives me the hat with the refresh logo and no options. So CWM is not functional.
Fastboot boots, but recovery sends me to non functional CWM.
S = off, and the phone is/was rooted.
Any advise?

I hope someone is awake... lol

Try to use adb/fastboot to flash 4ext recovery. Or a new cwm recovery. You really need a functioning recovery.
Sent from my HTC GLACIER using xda premium

Just sayin.. 4ext is a better recovery. However, if you prefer cwm, that is up to you. But if you can use adb to flash recovery, please do it, then from hboot go into recovery and flash a known working Rom...
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So your saying volume down while power on, boot up adb on the computer/fastboot on the phone and I can somehow push a 4ext to the phone? I'll give it a try but I'm lost at the moment.
Closest I came up with was downloading the stock rom/putting it on SD card and loading it up that way.
I'll go back to DEV and check into how to flash it, but I was under the impression you had to have a working rom.

...are you making selections in recovery using the trackpad?

There is no trackpad? Volume up and down.
I just flashed 2 versions of CWM and finally got options with the touch version - then of course I lost MY sd card somewhere? Which is such a joy because I'll never find it. So I am now going to load up a rom on the SD card then install it.
Ok, got the rom installed, for my personal SD card - the other phone is booting up now, if it doesn't work atleast I can mount the SD card through CMW and such. TY original poster, I didn't actually realize you could flash files directly from the computer to the phone.
This all started when I rooted this phone because it was having battery issues/wasn't running right, then it needed to update but wouldn't because CWM was installed - so I tried to put a different rom on it but that didn't work.
YES!!!! It has booted into android just now. Score.
TY posters.

nimkiel said:
There is no trackpad? Volume up and down.
I just flashed 2 versions of CWM and finally got options with the touch version - then of course I lost MY sd card somewhere? Which is such a joy because I'll never find it. So I am now going to load up a rom on the SD card then install it.
Ok, got the rom installed, for my personal SD card - the other phone is booting up now, if it doesn't work atleast I can mount the SD card through CMW and such. TY original poster, I didn't actually realize you could flash files directly from the computer to the phone.
This all started when I rooted this phone because it was having battery issues/wasn't running right, then it needed to update but wouldn't because CWM was installed - so I tried to put a different rom on it but that didn't work.
YES!!!! It has booted into android just now. Score.
TY posters.
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no trackpad? do you have the Mytouch 4G?
the trackpad is the square like button in the bottom middle of the phone...
well anyway, i'm glad you figured it out and got it working.

nimkiel said:
There is no trackpad? Volume up and down.
I just flashed 2 versions of CWM and finally got options with the touch version - then of course I lost MY sd card somewhere? Which is such a joy because I'll never find it. So I am now going to load up a rom on the SD card then install it.
Ok, got the rom installed, for my personal SD card - the other phone is booting up now, if it doesn't work atleast I can mount the SD card through CMW and such. TY original poster, I didn't actually realize you could flash files directly from the computer to the phone.
This all started when I rooted this phone because it was having battery issues/wasn't running right, then it needed to update but wouldn't because CWM was installed - so I tried to put a different rom on it but that didn't work.
YES!!!! It has booted into android just now. Score.
TY posters.
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Cmon...not even a clik on the thanks button? Those are like battle scars! I'm just kidding..glad it worked out for you. It hurts me to hear about a bricked mt4g. They are a dying breed...
Sent from my HTC GLACIER using xda premium

I actually didn't know there was a like button as this was one of my first posts really. But if you want an update, I flashed it through ADB and got a working bootloader then loaded ICS which completely didn't work.
This phone is for my mom's so I reflashed it to that Virtuous Unity rom/shes now complaining of some battery drain. I didn't install setcpu because they have something else running I saw? But maybe it needs to be setup? Either way I'll just install setcpu next time I see her.
Oh, as for the trackpad... *cough*. I've held the phones many times (hundreds), but never actually realized there was a trackpad on it. My mom used it in front of me shortly after I fixed her phone..

Getting more than a day out of a Sense 4 rom with decent use. Releasing this to the public in a couple days as INDIAN MADNESS, give it a shot