I currently have WM 6 on my Cingular 8525, as well as othewr programs. But for some reason, when the phone boots up it freezes when Photo Contacts starts and i can't do anything. I can't even bot the hone to remove photo contacts. How can I wipe the phone, and reinstall from scratch? Or is there anyway to anything else? Please, if anyone can help, please do. Thanks!
CrazyHips said:
I currently have WM 6 on my Cingular 8525, as well as othewr programs. But for some reason, when the phone boots up it freezes when Photo Contacts starts and i can't do anything. I can't even bot the hone to remove photo contacts. How can I wipe the phone, and reinstall from scratch? Or is there anyway to anything else? Please, if anyone can help, please do. Thanks!
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you could try a hard reset to return to freshly flashed state. You will lose all current information on the phone and have to re-install all your stuff but should fix your issue. If that doesn't work then just boot into bootloader and flash your desired rom from there. The Wiki will tell you how to do these things if you don't already know. The link is in the brown bar at the top of the page. XDA-Wiki.
CrazyHips: follow Zzan's directions and you should be all set.
Please note that as a general rule, it is bad forum manners to post with Help Please!!. Luckily Zzan helped you out. You will usually have better luck posting something descriptive in your post subject. Welcome aboard.
eagle 1 said:
..the answer has been mentioned many times.
......................and the solution is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1383635&postcount=169
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1386785&postcount=176
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1456401&postcount=226
Also, a good place to start is the wiki
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Athena
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Here's the solution.....
Get one of the ROMs in this link and extract it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314672
Get your device into bootloader (the three-colour screen; BTW it is Camera+Volume+Reset)
Connect it to PC (the SERIAL on the screen will change to USB)
Hit the ROM Upgrade Utility and upgrade your device.
When you finish, configure your device.
Then continue with the Unlocker, to the end.
Good Luck!
@ eagle 1 - I took the liberty of quoting your post as it seems we've both answered this question a few times already. I hope that is ok and truth be told the solution is available but buried within a lot of other posts.
Thanks to all others (mack, for instance) who've been patient in responding to us newbies. I sincerely hope this post will not offend anyone!
On the contrary, I hope it will reduce the frustration that people (especially developers on short fuses) get in responding to the same question (that has already been answered) again and again and again and again and ag....... well, you get my drift.
Yea, I think your instructions are a good idea. It seems many people are asking this question. Maybe Midget or another moderator can make this a sticky!.
Also, you may want to add your instructions to the wiki...Good Job!
eagle 1 said:
Yea, I think your instructions are a good idea. It seems many people are asking this question. Maybe Midget or another moderator can make this a sticky!.
Also, you may want to add your instructions to the wiki...Good Job!
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Thanks eagle 1 for your suggestions. I've just added that to the wiki pages. Maybe the moderators will make this a sticky.
@Midget and other mods - its up to you .
If using Vista.......
My 2 C worth:
If you are using Vista and WMDC and if you get an error that says something like "cannot read from TempATH " then please ensure that you have disabled UAC (User Access Control) in Vista.
Disabling this allowed me to overcome this error and I was able to to do step 1 successfully.
I had used IMEI Check to SUPER-CID my device so did not feel the need to follow steps 2 and 3.
docraj said:
My 2 C worth:
If you are using Vista and WMDC and if you get an error that says something like "cannot read from TempATH " then please ensure that you have disabled UAC (User Access Control) in Vista.
Disabling this allowed me to overcome this error and I was able to to do step 1 successfully.
I had used IMEI Check to SUPER-CID my device so did not feel the need to follow steps 2 and 3.
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Thanks for contributing, docraj! I haven't used Vista, only XP.
It does say on the Unlocker thread that you do not need to follow all three stages if you have used IMEI-Check to CID-unlock your device. Only stage 1 should do it.
Abram said:
Here's the solution.....
Get one of the ROMs in this link and extract it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314672
Get your device into bootloader (the three-colour screen; BTW it is Camera+Volume+Reset)
Connect it to PC (the SERIAL on the screen will change to USB)
Hit the ROM Upgrade Utility and upgrade your device.
When you finish, configure your device.
Then continue with the Unlocker, to the end.
Good Luck!
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Thanks, - It's alive!! - You really saved my day!
My boss have been furious for several days because I destroyed his HTC X7500 when trying to unlock it for installing WM6 in another language than delivered.
After getting it up in bootloader with USB connection I managed to flash it with the original WM 6 image from HTC.
Mybe someone copld make a list of other "secret" key combinations other than Camera+Volume+Reset and Volume+Reset?
All the Key combinations are on the Athena Wiki and all over these forums.
Brox said:
Thanks, - It's alive!! - You really saved my day!
My boss have been furious for several days because I destroyed his HTC X7500 when trying to unlock it for installing WM6 in another language than delivered.
After getting it up in bootloader with USB connection I managed to flash it with the original WM 6 image from HTC.
Mybe someone copld make a list of other "secret" key combinations other than Camera+Volume+Reset and Volume+Reset?
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Good! Well done and thanks for searching! Now you also know where the wiki is for more info. Btw, welcome to the forum.
Brox said:
Mybe someone copld make a list of other "secret" key combinations other than Camera+Volume+Reset and Volume+Reset?
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actually, it's just Camera + reset
Do Not Use Unlocker On 7501 Advantage!
I and several others now have bricked devices due to Oli's unlocker. No lights, No charge, No hard reset.
Does anyone know other possible key combinations to somehow get these working?
Dammit
photon2 said:
I and several others now have bricked devices due to Oli's unlocker. No lights, No charge, No hard reset.
Does anyone know other possible key combinations to somehow get these working?
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got the same prob but with tx7500
any ideas?
deluxury said:
got the same prob but with tx7500
any ideas?
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Try getting to bootloader. Sometimes you do succeed after several attempts. If you do.......
Good luck with your device!
deluxury said:
got the same prob but with tx7500
any ideas?
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does a green led come up at least ?
did it brick in step 1 or in step 2?
Clarification
I'm getting a new t-mobile uk ameo in the morning and just want to clarify a few things before i get flash happy.
Am i right in thinking its an X7500 so fine to run with Olipros unlocker out of the box or should i do anything else first? (and before the smart arse brigade say yes read, i have, and this forum has become so jumbled up the messages are a bit mixed)
If the answers are yes then i assume i can flash the fine work of Pawel062 from here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=329992
Disclaimer: If i do by some small chance come up against the black screen (which seemingly doesn't happen anymore) or get stuck after stage 1 i will flash a stock rom from bootloader and start again. If that doesn't work i won't be playing the blame game either as it obviously works for most.
Hi all!
I have tried to change the language on a X7500 here at the office.
Used Olipro software to unlock it (I was getting VENDER ID error - obvious).
But stage 1 didn´t succeed and now I have a bricked unit.
I can do a hard-reset and I also can go to the bootloader.
If I use Olipro unlocker software I get this error:
ERROR [300] : INVALID UPDATE TOOL
This Update Utility cannot be used for your PDA Phone. Please get newer Update Utility.
If I try to flash with the correct language ROM from the HTC site I get this error:
ERROR [294] : INVALID VENDER ID
And also get this info:
!"#$%´-AUJH5567-HUEbc568-xxxxxxxxx
Help!
I´m stuck!
Any ideas?
THX
What has happened around here? A thread with this title got this many replies?!?
I know from experience there is plenty of reading material on topics like this. Also, if you follow instructions, you will not have these problems. When I first used this unlocker, I had never done any flashing/unlocking. I thought it was basically foolproof.
weaselcossey said:
I know from experience there is plenty of reading material on topics like this. Also, if you follow instructions, you will not have these problems. When I first used this unlocker, I had never done any flashing/unlocking. I thought it was basically foolproof.
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Please DON´T judge others.
I have done hundreds of flashing/unlocking/firmware upgrades to several devices like phones, PSPs, Satellite Receivers, printers, motherboards, CD/DVD drives, MOSC, etc., etc..
I´ve NEVER bricked anything because I do read a lot and yes, I follow instructions before flashing/unlocking.
I flash things since 1989 so I always do my homework.
This time, as I said, step 1 went wrong due some communication error.
I´ve again, again and again searched/downloaded/flashed this X7500.
After a day doing this routine I finally give up and posted. My eyes needed a rest.
As you might see weaselcossey, I am seriously looking for help.
If you can help, that would be great.
Just to add to my previous post:
The X7500 goes nicelly to a grey screen with a status bar but when the status bar reaches 1% the software - both Olipro and official - stop flashing and generate the error messages I´ve posted.
Any help from other fellow users would be great!
Thanks
Since I cannot edit my last post, I will do a request in this post:
I am looking for the "DIAGNOSTIC MINI SD CARD" software, which only HTC staff have access to it.
If someone in this forum can provide it to me, I will be most grateful.
I will, of course, treat this matter with discretion.
Thanks in advance
photon2 said:
I and several others now have bricked devices due to Oli's unlocker. No lights, No charge, No hard reset.
Does anyone know other possible key combinations to somehow get these working?
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Have you tried to remove the battery for 30~40 minutes?
Had the same issue here (no hard reset) and all power sources removed solved that problem.
Still have my X7500 bricked.
It starts to flash, but quits at 1%.
Ask to CMONEX, it seems a DEVICE ID failure...
For those of you who also read PPC Geeks, this is the same problem. I am just trying to cover more area and hopefully stumble across somebody that has a solution to my problem.
The current situation is that the phone will not boot at all. I can hard reset it, I can enter into the bootloader (which is no2Chem 2.47) and I can flash ROMs to it. However, when I try to boot the phone, the black HTC logo flashes for about half a second and then I get a black screen.
I have tried flashing the Sprint ROM available on HTC's website (RUU_TITAN_SPRINT_WWE_3.56.651.0_RS_TITAN_3.42.02_ SPCS2.04_PPST_0718_Ship.exe) and this one: RUU_TITAN_SPRINT_WWE_3.35.651.2_RS_TITAN_3.35.04_4350H_SPCS_AM_Ship.exe.
I've hard resetted, soft resetted, taken the battery etc. Anybody have any idea what I should do or why this is happening? Thanks for the help!
So when you came to this forum, did you see "Development and Hacking" and "Questions and answers" and decide the former? Ask there next time, because nobody will want to help you when you can't even take the time to ask in the right forum.
Whoops. Sorry I have multiple bookmarks and clicked on the General Development and Hacking instead of the Titan specific. Way to be mean about it though. :-D
Hi,
I just rooted my milestone. I followed this guide http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=1220 to install 2.1 launcher
however couldn't mount it in the last step and I just rebooted the phone.
After that the phone is like hanging in the splash screen.
I also tried to do hard reset it but I got the app Setup wizard forced close after I signed in to my gmail account.
Anyone experienced please help!!!!
you arent bricked you idiot. just wipe the phone and reflash your rom.
No need for name calling, you were once new to android too
oshizzle1991 said:
you arent bricked you idiot. just wipe the phone and reflash your rom.
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You have neglected to read rule #2 for posting on XDA:
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There is no need for cursing, flaming, racism or personal attacks. There are a lot of different nationalities on this forum all with different cultures, this means that no matter what you're like, you'll have to adjust to people that are most definitely not like you. It will gain you a lot of respect if you help to keep the peace. It's disrespectful and therefore not permitted to create Alias Member names in an attempt to deceive others.
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got it, wont happen again
Here's some help
I'm not entirely sure what the state of your phone is, so I'll give you what I can. Basically, if you already have root access, you can boot into recovery by holding X on your milestone and powering it up. From there you can access the adb shell enabling you to get full console access from your PC to either fix your problem, or from here you may want to reapply the signed rooted update that you used for your milestone, and that should solve the problem.
Its near impossible to brick a droid, save from smashing it into little pieces. Stay calm and check out the droid section of the alldroid forums, lots of good information there, but remember the roms that they have posted in that section are droid only. Hope this helps.
My son tried to root Oneplus 8 Pro and failed, i tried to fix it and failed even harder.
Somehow the entire phone HD got formated and the phone was stuck in a bootloader loop or something similar when i got it.
Gooled a little and after a while i understood that MsmDownload Tool is what im looking for.
I checked for a suitable version of Oxygen and i think i picked the EU version but im not sure.
Anyway, after trying a few times i managed to install something, maybe oxygen or maybe a new bootloader im not sure to be honest.
I got a popup window telling me that the OEM Unlocking switch will be turned off.
The phone booted up and everything is working again, almost..
Now the phone says no simcards inserted, but there are working simcards in simcardslot and
i cant turn on OEM unlocking so i cannot redo the installation of Oxygen.
Anyone that can help me here?
jebraham said:
My son tried to root Oneplus 8 Pro and failed, i tried to fix it and failed even harder.
Somehow the entire phone HD got formated and the phone was stuck in a bootloader loop or something similar when i got it.
Gooled a little and after a while i understood that MsmDownload Tool is what im looking for.
I checked for a suitable version of Oxygen and i think i picked the EU version but im not sure.
Anyway, after trying a few times i managed to install something, maybe oxygen or maybe a new bootloader im not sure to be honest.
I got a popup window telling me that the OEM Unlocking switch will be turned off.
The phone booted up and everything is working again, almost..
Now the phone says no simcards inserted, but there are working simcards in simcardslot and
i cant turn on OEM unlocking so i cannot redo the installation of Oxygen.
Anyone that can help me here?
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jebraham said:
My son tried to root Oneplus 8 Pro and failed, i tried to fix it and failed even harder.
Somehow the entire phone HD got formated and the phone was stuck in a bootloader loop or something similar when i got it.
Gooled a little and after a while i understood that MsmDownload Tool is what im looking for.
I checked for a suitable version of Oxygen and i think i picked the EU version but im not sure.
Anyway, after trying a few times i managed to install something, maybe oxygen or maybe a new bootloader im not sure to be honest.
I got a popup window telling me that the OEM Unlocking switch will be turned off.
The phone booted up and everything is working again, almost..
Now the phone says no simcards inserted, but there are working simcards in simcardslot and
i cant turn on OEM unlocking so i cannot redo the installation of Oxygen.
Anyone that can help me here?
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I guess you used the wrong msm tool.
[OP8PRO][OOS 11AA/BA/DA] Unbrick tool to restore your device to OxygenOS
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Download from here and try again.